[Gasification] PS to Charcoal Torch

Thomas Reed tombreed2010 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 13:55:37 CST 2011


Dear Experimenters

In a note this morning I mentioned grinding charcoal in a blender and said it made a very fine dust that could be used to make a "char dust torch". 

My friend, Art Krenzel warns me that I should have said "explosive char dust", since dust explosions are as nasty as gas explosions.  

If you blow air through the blender making a continuous stream of combustible gas, be sure to have a very small passagesuch as a torch nozzle through which the mixture passes to the ignition point to act as a "flame arrestor".  Otherwise you could wind up with pieces of glass or plastic in your skin AND destroy your wife's  blender.

EXERCISE CAUTION IN ALL THINGS THERMAL

TOM REED, Still unscarred after 60 plus years of pyrotechnics...


Dr Thomas B Reed
President, The Biomass Energy Foundation
www.Woodgas.com



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