Antony - with eleven ccs
1. First note nice help offered by Alan Cave in several messages
yesterday. They did not include your original request below.
I agree with his remark that the continuous Belonio stoves that you
found at Paul Anderson’s sites are down draft (BLDD) - and that may be the best
way to go. At the recent ETHOS conference I do not recall this topic coming
up. (I wrote 3-pager on that conference - available at the stoves site.) The
reason is the strong emphasis on stoves that cost $10-$20 - and I doubt we can
ever see continuous feed stoves in that price range. I talked to Dr. Belonio a
good bit over the last weekend, but this topic did not come up. I include
Alexis as a cc, as he is probably the best expert on this topic we have.
2. I include the stoves list, because there is apt to be more
expertise there on your stove question than on the Biochar-production list.
Tom Miles added because he manages both lists and will have valuable thoughts.
3. I Include Jerry Whitfield, Jock Gill, Alex English, and Marc Pare
as they have all written on continuous feed char-makers; but none I think for
stoves. These are probably all horizontal feed (augers, moving grates, etc.).
See http://www.whitfieldbiochar.com (that is apparently in a “hold” mode).
Apologies to anyone I inadvertently left out who has been thinking of
continuous-feed stoves.
4. I include Dean Still and Ranyee Chiang as the best way to get this
topic into GACC discussions.
5. Can you explain more on why you are interested in this topic for
stoves? Do you have an upper price limit or particular stove application in
mind? Would several low cost batch TLUDs operating sequentially in parallel
meet your needs?
I consider the non-continuous aspect of TLUDs as their biggest drawback
- so think we should all take this topic very seriously. I thank you for
bringing it up. In my mind, the other advantages of TLUDs (primarily time
savings and money-making) outweigh this disadvantage. But it would be very
nice to remove this disadvantage whenever an application allows the extra
expense that seems sure to accompany continuous operation.
Ron
On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:43 PM, Anthill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi biochar-production people. Google has failed me. Do you know if anyone
> developed a biochar-generating stove that can run continuously? Something
> that:
>
> - Produces water-quenched biochar
> - Runs continuously on pellets/chips
> - Unlikely to set fire to feed hopper
> - Flame can be used for cooking
>
> What I'm thinking of is something like:
>
> http://imgur.com/a/BGADk
>
> Google has showed me:
>
> The BEK biochar generator
> http://bekbiochar.pbworks.com/w/page/6465132/FrontPage
> - Not for cooking
>
> Wallace's biochar generator
> http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/wallaceACpatent
> - Not woodgas-running
>
> Belonio's continuous rice husk generator
> http://www.drtlud.com/2012/04/04/rice-husk-gasifier-new-papers/
> - No quenchable biochar?
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> -Antony
>
>
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