[Stoves] material processing for briquettes few tips ontechnique

[ajheggie at gmail.com]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:42:17 -0300, Kevin wrote:

>Very interesting possible explanation for why "spent agricultural lime" 
>helps with the anaerobic retting process!
>
>While Ca(OH)2, or "Hydrated lime" can have a pH as high as  about 12.5, and 
>is indeed very caustic, CaCO3 or "Limestone", "agriculture lime, "land 
>lime", has a pH in the range of about 8, which is not very caustic at all

Yes Kevin I was thinking this was burnt limestone, CaO which had been
slaked to Ca(OH)2 and then used in a process before being used for the
retting. Here in UK fine chalk CaCO3  is used to lime fields in where
it is available locally ( often settled out from borehole water), but
in areas to the west it was derived from burnt limestone. Unless
Richard can test the pH I cannot speculate further. Slaked lime was
added to wheat and barley straw to make it more digestible.

AJH