[Stoves] [biochar] Charcoal as space filler in TLUD reactors
Paul Anderson
psanders at ilstu.edu
Sun May 5 16:33:41 CDT 2013
Kevin,
The "charcoal as filler" is not about consuming the charcoal. The
charcoal is "almost" non-active in the pyrloysis of the new biomass.
This is a discussion about limiting air flows with a filler that mostly
is inactive in environments that are at 650 C without oxygen. [
Note that I avoid using the word "inert" in this discussion.]
Paul
Paul S. Anderson, PhD aka "Dr TLUD"
Email: psanders at ilstu.edu Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
On 5/5/2013 4:15 PM, Kevin wrote:
> Dear Paul
> When the "Stove Customer" wants char, then char producing stoves is
> what he should purchase. If the Stove Customer wants fuel efficiency,
> then he should purchase a stove that burns the greatest percentage of
> incoming fuel efficiently.
> The energy loss in a char producing stove, assuming the char
> production of the char producing stove is about 20% of the weight of
> the incoming fuel, the "energy loss in the char is about 1/3 of the
> energy in the incoming fuel. Say 33%. Even if the char stove could
> consume 30% recycled char, with a 10% consumption, the overall effect
> on efficiency would be about 3%.
> Unless there is jiggery-pokery with the figures, a char producing
> stove will be inherently less efficient than a "full burn stove."
> I would suggest that the Testing Protocol be set up with categories of
> comparable stoves. With the same testing and Reporting protocol, the
> Customer would have "the Big Picture" and could:
> 1: Firstly select the Category of stoves that best met his needs
> and
> 2: He could then select the best stove in the category of importance
> to him.
> That's fair.
> Best wishes,
> Kevin
>
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> *From:* Paul Anderson <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>
> *To:* biochar at yahoogroups.com <mailto:biochar at yahoogroups.com> ;
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> <mailto:stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org> ; James S. Schoner
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> *Sent:* Sunday, May 05, 2013 5:33 PM
> *Subject:* [biochar] Charcoal as space filler in TLUD reactors
>
> Dear all,
>
> My earlier comments about charcoal as a space filler in TLUD reactors
> have been placed at my website.
>
> >
> http://www.drtlud.com/2013/05/01/dr-tlud-shares-some-tlud-stove-operation-tips/
> Tom Miles replied that between 7% and 10% of the charcoal could be
> consumed during such a the TLUD batch. I do not have any data on that
> (not yet), but I raise some questions:
>
> 1. Tom, what percentage of the fuel in your "batch" was biomass and
> what percentage was charcoal? A very high percentage of the "fuel" as
> charcoal would favor higher percentages of char consumption. If
> there is
> rather little charcoal as filler, even 10% of consumption might be a
> small price to pay for being able to use skraggly narly twisted
> biomass
> that does not fill well into TLUD fuel chambers. But the ability to
> fill in the excessive space could be very important for biochar
> makers
> who otherwise could need to do considerably more pre-processing of
> the
> fuels. In other words, more "forms" of biomass could be better
> accepted into TLUDs for heat and char production.
>
> 2. Charcoals are not pure carbon. Some residual volatiles are
> present, with more in the chars that were prepared at lower pyrolysis
> temperatures. Merely giving a second chance (and more time) for the
> volatiles to become gases could result in a different (better?)
> form of
> biochar. If that is the case, then the 10% reduction could be viewed
> as an improvement and not as a loss.
>
> 3. Please note that the addition of charcoal into the TLUD fuel
> chambers was not a topic of discussion. This is new ground and is an
> open field for everyone and anyone.
>
> WE NEED SOME DATA ON THIS. I hope that those who are actively
> producing
> biochar will conduct a few simple experiments to help us be better
> informed. TLUD users do NOT need to wait for others to get us some
> more data. Please contribute whatever experiments you can.
>
> And if you want to work together with others, maybe some of you will
> come to one of the Dr TLUD Workshops on Stoves and Biochar this year.
>
> Paul
>
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> Email: psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders%40ilstu.edu> Skype:
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