[Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

[Crispin Pembert-Pigott]

Musungu and Michael are both confirming my experiences and it seems the
technologies converged to the same sort of applications.

 

Regards
Crispin in the land of no coconuts

 

 

Dear Stovers and Biochar,

In 1999 or there about, I had the opportunity to work on the development of
charcoal production from coconut waste in Mombasa Kenya. We used coconut
husks, coir was very expensive and was being used to make some products like
door marts and such.

 

I developed a process for producing charcoal from coconut husks and also
briquetting them. I developed a retort that was running on some of the
coconut husks to generate heat that is then used to heat the other coconut
husks for charcoal production. The retort attained very high temperatures. 

 

I even wrote a report on the process.

Thank you,

Musungu Wycliffe.

 

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