[Stoves] Stanford pyrolyzer grant?

[Marc Pare]

Hello all,

Does anyone have any more information on the grant below? A friend just
forwarded the write-up to me, but I couldn't find anything on Stanford's
site about their progress.

I did manage to find a 1974 report claiming
"A simple and effective system for thermally reducing and inerting human
waste products (feces and urine) has been successfully demonstrated."
which further reinforces the trend in gasification of knowledge from two
decades ago being rediscovered as fuel prices creep back up.

Not sure if this message should go on the cookstove or the biochar
list...gasifiers straddle both topics!

Date: June 2011
Purpose: to design, build, and test a pyrolyzer capable of processing 100 kg
per hour of human solid waste into biochar
Amount: $397,100
Term: 1 year and 4 months
Topic: Water, Sanitation &
Hygiene<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/Pages/home.aspx>
Region Served: Africa<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/regions/Pages/default.aspx#/?action=region&id=africa>
, Global <http://www.gatesfoundation.org/regions/Pages/default.aspx>
Program: Global
Development<http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-development/Pages/overview.aspx>
Grantee Location: Stanford, California
Grantee Web site: http://www.stanford.edu

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants-2011/Pages/Stanford-University-OPP1038375.aspx

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

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