[Stoves] babana peel 2

[Marc Pare]

Mentioned on the list some time ago was Joel Chaney's banana-skin-briquette
project at the University of Nottingham

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8044092.stm

His 2010 thesis is here:
http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/1732/

Inspired by his work, my little sister and some friends used plantain skins
as binder for briquettes in Nicaragua, worked quite well.

Marc Paré
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology | Université de Technologie de Compiègne

my cv, etc. | http://notwandering.com


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:29 PM, <ajheggie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 04 December 2011 14:14:49 Paal wendelbo wrote:
>
> > There are a lot of different bananas. Peals of green Banana tested in
> > Uganda and Ghana some year ago were doing well dry as fuel and also as
> > a binder for briquettes with other type of biomass, though on
> > competition with food for the gouts. Dry peals from sweet bananas would
> > not burn.
>
> Hi Paal, my guess is the bananas I eat are sweet bananas, typically
> imported by Fifes from where I don't know. So your experience with dry
> peel from these seems similar to mine.
>
> We also have plantain which are much larger and more savoury and less
> commonly bought as too large for a snack.
>
> AJH
>
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