[Stoves] Why build charcoal making stoves? Short answer!

Tom Miles tmiles at trmiles.com
Sun May 12 20:34:24 CDT 2013


Royal Oak hardwood lump charcoal is probably made in the Missouri plants
where 80% of the lump charcoal in the US is made.  It depends on the
particular plant but if it is a batch type Missouri kiln then the gas would
be flared with propane or natural gas used as a pilot fuel. Energy is
typically not recovered from the batch kilns. Since 2005 emissions from all
charcoal kilns have been regulated. One supplier recovers fines from these
kilns and sells it as biochar in a compost blend. 

 

When sawdust is converted to charcoal the energy is sometimes recovered in
boilers. We had a couple of these (Royal Oak) installations with heat
recovery in Oregon until they were bought by Kingsford and eventually
closed. The energy was used in an adjacent wood plant. For sawdust it has
been more common to use multiple hearth kilns with auxiliary natural gas
burners to control temperatures.   

 

Tom   

 

From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of
Paul Olivier
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:59 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Why build charcoal making stoves? Short answer!

 

In the production of the charcoal sold at Wallmart, what happens to the
syngas?

Paul

 

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Lanny Henson <lannych at bellsouth.net> wrote:

Why build charcoal making stoves? 

Short answer!

 

Photo of bag of charcoal at Wallmart.

8.8 lb for $6.58 USD = 75 cents per pound.

This is for charcoal that can be used for grilling.

 




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