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Thanks Anand,

this is shure a valid solucion for your surrounding and I would love to try it.
I must look at the local mills if they sell anything the like at a reasonable price.

best regards

Rolf



On Mon, 4 May 2015 16:25:31 +0530
Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Rolf,
> we use flour swept from the floor of a flour mill. We have small flour
> mills all over the city and even in villages. The waste flour is quite
> cheap because it consists of a mixture of wheat, maize, sorghum
> penisetum, millets, legumes and also a bit of dirt. We use 100g flour
> per 1kg char powder, boil the flour in water to make a sticky paste,
> mix it with char powder and extrude the mixture into cylindrical
> briquettes. The briquettes are sun-dried on a plastic film. For small
> scale users, we have made a mold, which makes flat slabs having criss
> cross markings like a chocolate slab. These slabs can be broken by
> hand into smaller squares before using them in a charcoal brazier.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
> 
> On 5/4/15, Energies Naturals C.B. <energiesnaturals at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Dear Crispin,
> >
> > you mention pillow briquettes out of char dust. Do you have any direct
> > experience with how to make them?
> > is there a technical guideline as for pressure needed and most of all the
> > ideal aglomeration additive?
> >
> > I have tried to make them, but it is not easy unless I mix them with
> > expensive starch or equally expensive ligno sulfonate
> > in quite high concentrations.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Rolf
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 4 May 2015 02:42:25 -0400
> > Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Ad
> >>
> >> I completely agree.  Even if it has high ash, it would have value. The
> >> value
> >> of bio-char dust is about 2/3 the value of lump charcoal so there is a
> >> market for it (making pillow briquettes).
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Crispin
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Crispin,
> >> if non-rotting leaf litter is a problem, one can char it and convert it
> >> into
> >> char  briquettes, to be used as fuel.
> >> Yours
> >> A.D.Karve
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