[Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

[Michael N Trevor]

Here in the Marshall Islands using a Aprovecho/ Stovetec unit about 900 families have found the spathe or flower covering from the coconut shoot a very effective fuel. Actually it already was commonly used but in the rocket stove ripped into strips it work very well. If the leaflets are stripped off, the sections of midrib makes a reasonable fuel as well. Even the flower shoot after the nuts have fallen can be pulled a part and fed into the rocket stove as well.
Michael
From: Musungu Wycliffe Nabutola 
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:45 AM
To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves' 
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

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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