[Stoves] Corn cob burner for making salt

[Anand Karve]

Dear Stovers,
it is a great revelation to us in India that people in Indonesia, a
tropical country, use a fire for making salt. Here, the sun does it
for us. The use of sun dried dung cakes as fuel may also not be
possible in Indonesia.
Yours
A.D.Karve
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Dr. A.D. Karve

Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)

Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott
<crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> Dear Friends of Salt
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards
>
> Crispin
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