Dear Paul et al.,

Re., rice hull combustion at the household level;  What is dangerous to some is 
often survival- or at minimum, subsistence to others eh? 
Rice straw is an excellent binder for the rice hulls and almost anything else 
that is granular and combustible.
But this is hardly a disencentive to burning rice hulls so I do apologise for 
that part.
Richard Stanley
www.legacyfound.org

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On Jun 14, 2013, at 20:55, Paul Olivier <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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