[Stoves] Traditonal Charcola Making Process / retort

[Jeff Davis]

Ugh!!!!!!

This is what happens when one has no time for e-mails....

Please invert the below equations....

It's backwards....



No time..


Jeff



> Tom wrote:
>> If you run the gasifier inefficiently by withdrawing more charcoal than
>> you convert to gas, say 30% char,
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> This is where Tom and I differ:
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> Tom writes gasifier efficiency as:
> Energy in  / energy of gas
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> I write it as:
> Energy in  / (energy of (gas + char))
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> But my hope is that the char will be as valuable or more than the gas.
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> I have had some luck with gasifying paper fireballs and making charcoal:
> http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/?q=davisgas-of-fire
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> Too much to talk about and no time to type,
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> Jeff
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Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA