[Stoves] palm oil refuse use??

[Ronal W. Larson]

List:   Michael, AD, Crispin

	Thanks for interesting material - but I am still hoping to learn something about oil palm bunch refuse - and especially on its appropriateness for char-making - and especially for char-making stoves.  

Ron


On Mar 15, 2015, at 1:05 PM, <mtrevor at mail.mh> <mtrevor at mail.mh> wrote:

> Charring green husk from drinking nuts might be a challenge unless well dried but they are probably denser then
> copra husks.
> 
> MN Trevor
> Marshall Islands
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Anand Karve
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 2:02 AM
> To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] palm oil refuse use??
> 
> Dear Ron,
> we don't have oil palm in our area, but citizens of Pune city like to
> drink water of tender coconuts. They generate daily 30 tonnes coconut
> husks. An entrepreneur has started to use our process of charring this
> material into charcoal. We are currently testing the briquettes made
> by him as fuel in our Sarai cooking system. The compaction and density
> of the briquettes seem to be important if they are to be used as
> domestic cooking fuel..
> 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 Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Ronal W. Larson
> <rongretlarson at comcast.net> wrote:
>> List:
>> 
>>        Anyone aware of any work with stoves (especially char-making) that are using palm oil bunch refuse?  Should be a lot of material free or very low cost in Malaysia and Indonesia.
>> 
>> Ron
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