[Stoves] Char from coir Re: Biochar Inquiry

[Cookswell Jikos]

This is a fantastic diagram! Well put together. Would you by any chance
know of any like this but for charcoal type's, species of tree and/or
general properties? I would love to have something like this in my mini
stove museum in Nairobi. Can I print a copy of this briquette one to hang
up, do you have the credits to it?

Thanks

Teddy

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Richard Stanley
<rstanley at legacyfound.org>wrote:

> 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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