[Default] On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:27:06 +1200,"mtrevor" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Dear All > >I have been lurking in the background but following all with the greatest of >intereset. >Here in the Marshall Islands one of my longest desires is a better copra >drier fueled by biomass >and producing biochar as a by-product. Michael I'm sure I have posted this before but in 1983 NRI in UK and Srilanka developed a kiln for carbonising coconut shells and piping the hot gases to a copra dryer. The prototype was commissioned at Mahandragahamula. About 3 years ago I met one of the engineers on the project but don't know how it fared. The overall heat efficiency of the waste heat recovery was judged to be 84% but I don't know how the desiccator worked nor how efficient it was. The coconut was dried from 45% mc wwb to 2% mc wwb. AJH _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
