[Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

[Musungu Wycliffe Nabutola]

Dear Mzee Stanley and stovers.

My name is Musungu, being a Luhya from Kenya. Hahaha. I also reside here in
Kenya. The corruption of the name may have been by my ancestors.

 

To the issue of charcoal from coconut husks, in Mombasa the amount of
coconut husks is large but a system for collection and charcoal production
need to be put in place.  I agree with Dr. Paul that use of a TLUD would be
very effective for household level charcoal production.

 

Maybe we also need to look at the other component of the coconut tree, the
leaves and the branches.

 

Musungu 

 

From: Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Stanley
Sent: 15 April 2014 17:39
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

 

Dear Muzungu Wycliff,

 

Presumably you are with Wyclif bible translators ??

  Then I'm just curious as to how you missed the proper spelling of european
or more generally, white man in Kiswahili. 

You are an Mzungu, not an muzungu.

 

Wako wa umtumishi,

 

Mzee Richard Stanley

Nicaragua

 

 

On Apr 15, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Crispin Pembert-Pigott wrote:





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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