[Gasification] More on Cohune charcoal fueling a Chinese gasifier

[Peter Singfield]

At 10:24 AM 1/5/2007 -0800, Zane wrote: 
>>>>
Thanks for sending the photo of cohune charcoal and details of your test
firing.  I'm following your progress   
>>

It is a very basic -- initial -- investigation in an area I have much to
learn about yet -- 

Doing it this way assures maximum yields -- I never weighed the before and
after this time -- but will next.

Then I will try even simpler ways to achieve the same -- without burning
tires -- and find out how much less the yield is.

By doing it the older way -- that is burning it in insufficient air --
which will be much easier -- now to see how much less is the yield when
done that way.

This same retort I built can also be a partial combustion charcoal device
-- so that will be the next experiment.

Here is a picture of the retort charged and ready to be closed from
yesterday's batch.

I do believe the Chinese gasifier can also be set up to make charcoal --
but in very small batches.

It probably would take three passes in the gasifier to make sufficient
charcoal from cohune nut to fill the gasifier just with charcoal after for
a producer gas production run after.

The "used" single cylinder Chinese 7 HP diesel pictured in the back ground
will be the test engine for gasifier development/diesel fuel supplementing
-- stage.

Peter/Belize