[Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

[Richard Stanley]

Mzee Musungu, 
Samahani !
check out the briquette projects in Kisii by a fell Luo citizen called Isaiah Maobe  <isaiahom at yahoo.com> who trained a one Alphonse Okuku<alfokuku at yahoo.com>
Also there is a one  Katherine Mcbride ( Us mzungu) Kathryn Macbride <abeclub_miramonte at yahoo.com>who was working in western as well.    
If you want to get to Mbale Uganda near Busia. contact Vicky Akello head of the Uganda United Womens Association (UUWA-J). Akello victoria <uuwaj at yahoo.com> 
All should be familiar with incorporation fo charcoal dust and crumbs in the ordinary  agro- residue based briquette. here is a photo of some  samples we  collected several years ago, In the Bamaco samples (6 and 9 o'clock position) , ther are 25% and 40% concentrations of charcoal crumbs and dust  You cannot increase the charcoal to much more than  this because the   briquette ( held together by the fibers form the agricultural residers)  will no longer hold together (no matter how much pressure you apply).
Ironically, if you interrupt the fire beforef carbonization  the charcoal creates more charcoal so to varying degrees the process is self continuing   

Badaye rafiki,

Richard (hasta, mzungu nusu) 




On Apr 16, 2014, at 1:45 AM, Musungu Wycliffe Nabutola wrote:

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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