[Stoves] Corn cob burner for making salt

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends of Salt

 

This is a photo of a corn cob-fired salt boiler in Lombok Island, Eastern
Indonesia. The hole from which the flame is emerging is the secondary air
inlet. You may wonder why there is a large flame coming out of it. Well,
that is a good question. The reason is that so much air is getting through
the grate that it is able to support the gasification of the fuel and send
flames to the chimney at one end and out the air intake at the other. It
could use a little tweaking.

 

This stove makes about 80 kg of salt per day, typical for the region. There
are many other examples burning a variety of fuels including coconut husks,
rice hull and wood, plus co-firing of wood and coconut.

 

The firepower of the stove is about 80 kW. The biggest homemade burner I
have seen so far is 2.7 MW. That is a pretty serious fire. 

 

Regards

Crispin

 

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