[Stoves] wheat husk pellets

[Otto Formo]

Thank you VERY much, Paul O, for highlighting these issues on this list, again.
 
Sweden and Finland (no oil or gas) has been using woodpellets for heating for decades and are planing Huge transfers of waste biomass to Jet-fuel.
 
Only lack of common sense or hidden agendas, are putting these types of development on hold.
 
Thanks again.
 
Otto
 

 
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:19:20 +0700
From: paul.olivier at esrla.com
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Stoves] wheat husk pellets

In the regions of the world where wheat is the predominant food-crop, wheat husk can also be compacted to produce energy-pellets, with characteristics similar to rice-husk pellets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellet_fuel 


Wheat is grown on more than 240,000,000 hectares (590,000,000 acres), larger than for any other crop... The average world farm yield for wheat was 3.1 tonnes per hectare, in 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat


Images of wheat husk pellets:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wheat+husks&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=1YO1Udj-M4vbkgXQ1YHICw&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=624


Should we not be putting wheat husk pellets in small biochar-producing stoves throughout all regions of the world where wheat is grown? Of course wheat straw can also be pelletized, and the same question can be asked? Furthermore, why are we, in developed countries, so eager to burn fossil fuels to cook our food, given the ocean of agricultural wastes that we are swimming in? Why do we focus only on developing countries? And in switching to waste biomass fuels, we do not have to cut down a single tree.


Today I just found out something quite interesting. The Vietnamese government obliges rice mills, who export rice, to pelletize their rice hulls rather than uselessly burn or dump them. These rice hull pellets sell for $76 dollars per ton delivered Saigon. This one ton of pellets will produce about 330 kgs of rice hull biochar that sells in Saigon, as part of a horticultural mix, for about the same price as the one ton of pellets. Why on earth should the Vietnamese be using bottled gas, kerosene or coal to cook food when agricultural residues are so abundant?


Paul Olivier

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