[Stoves] Clay as a binder in biomass pellets

[Paul S. Anderson]

Charlie and all,

I have not done the test yet, but I have collected the "residue" powder from
burning standard USA type charcoal briquettes.  It would be the clay plus the
ash from the charcoal that was put into the briquette.

If the ash is also acceptable as a binder (or as part of the binder), then the
residues from successive generations of briquettes could be used again and
again.

Or perhaps someone could describe a way to remove most of the ash from 
the clay
binder after burning the briquettes.

Paul Moreno's ECOSUR website is certainly worth seeing.  We have not heard
enough in the past about his fine work.

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
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Quoting Charlie Sellers <csellers42 at yahoo.com>:

> Paul (Moreno),
>
> Now I see that everything REALLY has been invented already!  Thank 
> you for the introduction to the Ecosur website, and its page on 
> briquetting biomass using ~20% clay:
> http://www.english.ecosur.org/EcoSur_e-magazine/June_2003/Cooking_stoves_and_brick_production_%96_a_burning_problem/
>


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