[Stoves] [biochar] Re: Report on APBC - first two days

[Tom Miles Easystreet]

Charcoal buried under wooden animal structures manages electron flow which prevents growth of disease and makes peaceful cows, good cheese and sake. See APBC paper when published. 

T R Miles Technical Consultants Inc.
tmiles at trmiles.com
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On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:38 PM, "Crispin Pemberton-Pigott" <crispinpigott at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Tom for those numbers.
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> They are burning 150 kg/hr and getting 20 kg of carbon in the final result.
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> Do you have any idea what the moisture content of the feedstock is?
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> Do you know if the silica has any ‘medicinal’ benefit? There are people putting ground rock dust on fields and forests claiming benefits so I wondered if that was related.
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> Thanks
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> The Kansai Corporation rice husk gasifier is interesting. They feed 150 kg/hr husk at 2000 kcal/kg and get 50 kg/hr char. It is a stirred bed gasifier. Husks gasifying in the bed at about 600C. Air is added above the bed to burn the gases. Stack gas is 15% O2 so they use lots of excess air. About 30% of the heat input is recovered as hot water which is used in the bio oil process and in winter for heating. 
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> I was interested in the labeling of the 10kg bags. They indicate 40% carbon and 50% silica (SiO2). They also list macro elements in MG/kg. 
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