[Stoves] Torrefied biomass

[Paul Olivier]

Anand,

I agree fully with what you have written.
The torrefaction of certain agricultural wastes makes a lot of sense.
I have been thinking about torrefying rice straw here in Vietnam.

Thanks.
Paul Olivier

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Stovers,
> I spent the last Sunday in company of Dr. Paul Polak, who had come to
> India on some project of his own. He was a next door neighbour of Tom
> Reed's when the latter still lived in Denver. I told him about the work
> that we have been doing for the last 15 years on generating cleaner fuels
> from agricultural waste. I mentioned to him our work on charcoal and
> biogas. He advocated torrefaction of biomass. It was his opinion that
> torrefied biomass weighs almost 70% of the original biomass, is
> non-biodegradable (so it can be stored in the form of a heap in open
> air), and that it does not smoke when burned in a stove. The energy
> required for torrefacion can be taken from the volatiles that are expelled
> from the biomass during the process of torrefaction itself. He was saying
> that one can use it in converting iron ore into metallic iron just like
> coke. We feel that it is relatively easy to torrefy agricultural waste and
> turn it into briquettes by using a modified kiln and the same extruder that
> we use for our sugarcane leaf charcoal. Has anybody any experience of using
> torrefied biomass in a stove?
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
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