[Stoves] Kilning firewood

[Tom Miles]

Adam,

See http://www.firewoodkiln.com/firewood/Firewoodkiln.html 
http://www.containerkiln.com/drykiln/Dry_Kiln.html 
http://www.palletdrykiln.com/drykiln/Reference/034423CE-B961-4BDD-8933-5FAF7
887C259.html 
http://www.mountainfirewoodkilns.com/firewood_drying.php 

These are lumber dry kilns built from shipping containers. 7 cords in 6 days
looks like 560 ft3 cordwood at 250,000 Btuh. 

I don't think I have seen anyone develop drying curves for firewood in a
batch dry kiln except USFS 
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplrn/fplrn254.pdf


The concept could be adapted to a farm or village scale dryer that might
also be used for vegetables, etc. I wonder if Reg Preston or others working
with small gasifiers have considered powering dryer fans. The circulating
fans are pretty low power. 

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
[mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Adam Carr, Renergy
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:58 AM
To: stoves at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [Stoves] Kilning firewood

I am working on a gasification project in the UK. We need to find a use for
the "waste" heat (circa 0.7 MWth of erxhaust gases @450C)

Kilning firewood at a commercial scale (100 wet tonnes week in 2 batches?)
has been suggested. Any ideas as to kiln design?

Adam Carr
Renergy Ltd
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