[Stoves] Looking for a stove designed for larger amounts of biochar

[Nathan Lorenz]

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:13:32 
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves<stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>; <vetle.w.cappelen at biomass-stove.no>
Reply-To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
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Subject: Re: [Stoves] Looking for a stove designed for larger amounts of
 biochar

Dear Gajin and all,

When you make much large volumes of biochar, the amount of heat will  
generally be far excessive for any cookstove application.

Therefore, either waste the heat or find some other application.  And  
often the large applications (even water heating  or drying) are more  
expensive to build than the biochar maker.  Tough choices.

Are your associates willing to waste the heat?  and what is the supply  
of dry biomass?

I agree with the comment by the NGO Miombo, 200 liter barrels are  
currently about as large as is convenient unless money and  
experimentation are available.

I hope more people make comments.  Be sure to check the biochar  
websites for ideas that are not closely linked to stoves.

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Known to some as:  Dr. TLUD    Doc    Professor
Phone (USA): 309-452-7072   SKYPE: paultlud   Email: psanders at ilstu.edu
www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/giz2011-en-micro-gasification.pdf   (Best ref.)



>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:48:06 +0100
> From: bojcajanus at gmail.com
> To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Stoves] Looking for a stove designed for larger amounts of
> biochar
>
> Dear stovers,
>
> so  far I have been mostly
> just following your discussions as to learn as  much as I could, now I
> would like to ask you for advice. I hope it is OK  by you.
>
> Just
> a few words of introduction: I am a journalist,  marketer and
> entrepreneur. This year I have brought the TLUD Champion  stoves from
> India to Slovenia and started introducing them as well the  whole idea of
> biochar to Slovenian farmers and gardeners through my  blog, articles and
> presentations. A few weeks ago I had a presentation  of permaculture,
> biochar and the TLUD Champion stove to members of biodynamic society  Ajda
>  Goriška; they were very interested in the whole idea, eager to try
> it  out, but they all have larger areas of land so biochar, made by a
> small  TLUD Biochar stove just is not big enough for  them ... We were
> discussing to make a big stove and produce enough  biochar for all of them
> and then imply the activated biochar to their  fields. I am searching
> through the net to find plans for a larger stove,  I have already seen
> some we could try out and we  could make ourselves, but would also be very
> grateful for any ideas and  advice! The ideal stove would not only produce
> biochar but could be used  for cooking on as well.
>
>  Kind
> regards,
>  Bojca
> --
>
>
>
>    Gajin vrt, Bojca Januš
> s.p.
>  Zaplana 54 f, 1373 Rovte, Slovenia, EU
>
> + 386 40 325 939
> bojcajanus at gmail.com
>
> http://permakulturazatelebane.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
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