[Stoves] ------ making salt just an aside

Michael N Trevor mtrevor at mail.mh
Sat Aug 29 00:48:13 CDT 2015


Well here in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, we have wind power sun and 
salt water and El Nino.
Solar stills making drinking water and producing salt would make sense.
That does not mean we are sensible.
We import salt and seek foreign aid for water.
MN Trevor




-----Original Message----- 
From: Anand Karve
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 3:57 PM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Corn cob burner for making salt

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
***
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
>
>
>
> 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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