[Stoves] Stoves projects and/or NGOs or Gos in Nepal tea?

[AJH]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:16:12 +0800, Robert Taylor wrote:

>I think the temperature used when processing tea in a wok is very low--the 
>chap who demonstrated it to us put his bare hands into the wok to stir the 
>leaves. 

Thanks Robert

I know nothing about drying tea but a mate of mine who is now a dairy
farmer in East Anglia did his degree at the Tea Research Foundation
(central Africa) and I have a copy here (ISBN 90-5808-265-2 but it's
not findable online). He illustrates moisture removal from a fluidized
bed as the temperature of the drying gases is varied, these inlet
temperatures are plotted from 95C to 105C. So I think fresh tea leaves
will stand this temperature.

AJH