[Stoves] Applications of TLUD heat - not for cooking

[Paul Anderson]

Dear Paul O.

Your example of use of TLUD heat is of great interest.   Could you 
please expand on it as a small Word document or PowerPoint, with some 
photos?   A functioning example is worth 10 in the discussion process.

Thanks,

Paul A.

Paul S. Anderson, PhD  aka "Dr TLUD"
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu   Skype: paultlud  Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com


> Note that it is not necessary to pelletize rice hulls or coffee husks. 
> They gasify quite well in their undensified state. But pelletizing 
> makes transport so much easier, and pelletizing becomes essential when 
> long, uninterrupted batch cycles are needed. In one commercial setting 
> in Saigon, ten of my small gasifiers were set up in a single paint 
> drying facility. The reactors are loaded with rice hull pellets, and 
> the batch cycle in this case lasts for more than five hours. The 
> factory is now in a position to sell rice hull biochar to local 
> farmers at a higher price than the pellets from which the biochar was 
> derived. No more bottled gas is used in this facility. The owner of 
> this factory just bought a small pellet machine and will start making 
> his own rice hull pellets. He will soon become an important producer 
> of rice hull biochar, and the gas he needs to fuel his paint-drying 
> facility is for free.
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