[Stoves] Charcoal & Stoves

[AJH]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:22:33 +0300, Richard Stanley wrote:

>On  a pure weight basis, the charcoal fines  
>blended into briquettes (which are as hot  or hotter than the raw  
>charcoal–thanks to the whole hole(?)–   will expand the use of the  
>total available charcoal at any one seller's site, by nearly 100%.

As I said there must be many ways of preparing agriwastes and if
adding char to them makes them better that's good. Don't discount char
from other sources just because you are aware that charcoaling wood
produces a lot of fines, other biomass will make char but I think a
reasonable lignin content is necessary or the char yield goes down. I
don't know how this coconut husk would char but I am fairly confident
that charring would reduce it to powder easily, which could make
transporting it to your more local briquetting franchise worthwhile.

AJH