[Stoves] Major study of LARGE TLUDs in Cambodia for charbriquetting and fuel drying

[Marc-Antoine Pare]

Interesting post, Doc. The report is nicely written.

You ran into a problem I saw in Cambodia in December: combustion 
products from gasifiers destroying galvanized metal very quickly.

A prototype rice husk gasifier at a person's house had eaten through the 
galvanized roofing in a matter of weeks. This same person had been using 
charcoal stoves in the kitchen for years without issue.

Crispin suggested that it could be high moisture content in the rice 
husk fuel vs. the charcoal. I thought it might also have to do with 
sulfur content.

Anyhow, I think it's an interesting further observation of the 
difficulty of material selection in combustion systems. I would have 
thought that after combustion, the products would be "clean" enough to 
not do significant damage to metal. Not the case, it seems!

marc
notwandering.com

On 3/16/13 7:20 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Go to www.drtlud.com for access to a major new report with 3 Parts.
>
> GERES Cambodia has shared with Dr TLUD a series of three technical 
> reports which address their applied research and development on TLUD 
> technology for charbriquette production in Cambodia. All three reports 
> below are available via titled PDF document links.
>
> •Part 1 of 3: Introducing TLUD Stoves For Use In Charbriquette 
> Production Plants
> •Part 2 of 3: Development Of Two Charring-Drying Modules Using TLUD 
> Technology
> •Part 3 of 3: Development Of Charbriquette Dryer Using TLUD Technology
>
> Click any PDF document link above to view now in an overlay window, or 
> save a copy for later by right-clicking the link and choosing the 
> Internet Explorer “Save Target As” or Firefox “Save Link As” menu option.
> -------------
> The principle investigator and author, Mr. Aurelien Herail, is with us 
> at the GACC Forum this week in Phnom Penh. A field trip of the 
> conference will visit this facility on Thursday.
>
> We will be busy this week, but will try to respond to discussions 
> about these papers. Please consider Subject lines that reflect the 
> specific topic of any responses.
>
> Paul
>