JJ, I would not recommend that you burn rice hulls ir rice straw. In many cases this is quite dangerous.
Paul On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:40 AM, JJ Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings one and all, > I visit the Philippines often and usually stay about six months a year. > I often use a rice hull stove. I would like to get a plan to build a > concrete stove. I am also wondering if there is such a thing as building > an 'oven' using cement and/or concrete? I would like to build one, > a white model if possible, [vice a black model], if such a plan is > available and if the technology would be practical. We have a > lot of rice hulls and not all that much firewood. > I would be open to heating the oven with firewood and then > maintaining the heat level with or by burning rice hulls. I have > a lot of rice hulls and want to make the best use of the hulls. > I currently use the wood ashes to make lye so I can make soap, > but I have not used any ashes from rice hulls to make lye. I > wonder if making lye with rice hulls is possible. > The rice hull stoves we use are sort of a metal pail with a wire rack. > I am looking for a stove, hopefully one that is hot, medium and cool, > for cooking with rice hulls over a long number or years. > On our island, rice hulls are still burned to 'get rid of them', and > believe it or not, rice straw is still burned. I often ask neighboring > farmers to bring me their straw and provide them a small bit of > cash for doing so. We use the rice straw for making compost. > We add some rice hulls to the compost. Most of the rice hulls > are burned for fuel to cook with. We add the char from the cooking > process to the garden. I am wondering if we are making the best > use of the rice hulls and if the plans I am speaking of by post > are available. > Please inform, I am open to suggestions and direction. > Blessings, > JJ > > *From:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *To:* Discussion of biomass cooking stoves < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, June 14, 2013 5:02 PM > *Subject:* Re: [Stoves] Chimneys, rice husks > > [Default] On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:37:30 -0400,"Crispin > Pemberton-Pigott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >We are experimenting in Indonesia with draft-operated buoyancy balancers > to limit the pull to the ideal even when combustion conditions change in > the large wood stoves. They are easy and cheap to make. They are mounted on > the side of the stack of all oil furnaces. > > We have used them on pellet stoves (which have their own id fans) to > limit draught on an insulated ss chimney that rose through 4 floors. I > wasn't entirely happy with the idea as it raised the possibility of > the boiler room getting combustion products if the seal wasn't good, I > would have been happier if the air was sucked from outside. In fact > there was subsequently a problem but this was down to poor > maintenance. > > 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/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > -- Paul A. Olivier PhD 26/5 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Dalat Vietnam Louisiana telephone: 1-337-447-4124 (rings Vietnam) Mobile: 090-694-1573 (in Vietnam) Skype address: Xpolivier http://www.esrla.com/
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