[Stoves] [biochar-production] Re: Stoves Digest, Vol 14, Issue 17

Gerrie Baker gbaker at rideau.net
Sun Oct 30 14:03:06 CDT 2011


I will try this along with a trial to compare.  Gerrie

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On 29/10/2011 6:04 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
> Dear AD
>
> How about you trying this: soak some biochar in sugar and plant that along
> with the seeds.  This might provide the host environment needed for microbes
> and feed the ones needed for mineral breakdown at the same time.
>
> If you were to try it on something you know has a certain response to sugar
> only, you could look for a difference. Using char from an open fire, a TLUD,
> a gasifier, and 'fuel charcoal' would also be useful.
>
> It seems to me both methods have some promise (char and sugar) so why not
> combine them? One could sell reject molasses-soaked char as a way to use two
> byproducts.
>
> Regards
> Crispin
>
> ++++++
>
> Dear Crispin,
> Biogas slurry contains all the inorganic components in the original biomass,
> plus certain organic compounds which the anaerobes are unable to digest.
> Being an anaerobic process, there are a number of reduced compounds in the
> slurry like NH3, H2S, etc. which serve as food for the soil micro-organisms,
> which oxidise these compounds to gain energy. N, P and S are generally lost
> while burning the biomass. But biogas slurry contains them because biogas is
> formed at lower temperature.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
>
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