[Stoves] JED's breakthrough Re: Fuels of the future

Mon Sep 7 19:59:38 CDT 2015

JED,

Truly awesome!!!!!!!!!    [Based on very little information, but he 
tells us truly important info about fuel and boiling time and combustion 
technology.   This truly looks promising.]

I suspect that you are on the verge of a major shift in cooking 
stoves.   Your attachment with photos in your original message should be 
seen by all.    It will be soon placed on the www.drtlud.com   website.

What I am reading and interpreting is this:

1.  Abundant supply of a fuel that is appropriate in size, energy 
content, moisture, etc.   Literally an agricultural "refuse" for free or 
for the cost of transport.   Producers will start selling it, but it is 
already UNDER the price of other fuels, so the price will only rise to 
the level that the market will bear.

2.  A CERAMIC / MUD / CLAY stove, made by a master of clay stoves. We 
would like to know the cost of the stove.   And how easily can it be 
made ?    Importance of clay is in next item.    And it should be able 
to handle numerous other appropriate biomass fuels, but doing just one 
(pili nut shells) is sufficient for starting and establishing what can 
be accomplished.

3.  You operate in TLUD mode (correctly characterized by the downward 
migratory pyrolytic fron MPF).   And then you continue to burn the 
created char while adding (please explain where and how) additional 
fuel.   The result is the high heat in the char-bed, but without the 
metal parts that are damaged by high heat.   Ceramics to the 
rescue!!!!   Continuous burning.

4.  Plus you are demonstrating the making of light.   Very nice.

Best wishes.   Please tell us more.    And about the important issues of 
user acceptance.   Many of us are willing to be of assistance.   In some 
ways you are only scratching the surface of what you are 
demonstrating.    Congratulations.

And are you going to the GACC Forum in Ghana in November 10 - 13?

Paul

Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email:  psanders at ilstu.edu
Skype: paultlud      Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website:  www.drtlud.com

On 9/7/2015 4:59 PM, Joshua Guinto wrote:
> Dear Crispin, Paul and everyone
>
> Let me jump into the conversation.Â
>
> I am now in the midst of the gasifier stove i am fabricating and the 
> abundant supply of pili shells. PiliÂ /*(canarium ovatum)*/Â is an 
> endemic species of my place here at the Bicol Region which is south of 
> Manila. The shells Â are very much heavier than macadamia nuts and has 
> a density of 0.87 grams/cm3. .Â
>
> Two days ago we began hauling 4 tons of the shells to become my stocks 
> of fuel. I will sell the shells along with my PapaBrick Stove. And 
> then, while we are hauling the shells, we were offered another 6 tons 
> of shells from the neighbor farm, both in the same village. I used to 
> purchase the shells from another village where to my best estimate, 
> there is more than 10 tons per month that are very much underused. 
> This supply is expected to increase as more farms have planted 
> thousands of pili trees as the farmers got more awareness with the use 
> of the shell for gasifier stoves.Â
>
> On the other hand, the PapaBrick Stove is giving us satisfying 
> performance, now that we know better how to use it can perform as a 
> TLUD gasifier stove during the cold start phase and then work as a 
> rocket during the hot start phase in a continuous mode.Â
>
> One load receives 1.25 kg of the shells and runs for 75 minutes of 
> very clean flame, boils 4 liter of water in 14 minutes during the cold 
> start phase and then 9 minutes during the hot start phase.Â
>
> After the flame has gone out, we can harvest an average of 2.73 grams 
> of char from the raw fuel of 1.25 kg or about 21 % recovery.
>
> Going further i fabricated a lantern on top of the stove. And it was 
> very satisfying.Â
>
>
> Regards
>
> JEdÂ
>
> *Joshua B. Guinto
> *Specialist, Appropriate Technology
> MSc Management of AgroEcological Knowledge and Social Change (MAKS)
> Wageningen University, The Netherlands 2006 to 2008*
> *
> Recipient, International Fellowships ProgrammeÂ  Award (IFP) 2005
> Ford Foundation *
> *
>
>
> 2015-09-03 20:31 GMT-07:00 Paul Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu 
> <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>>:
>
>     Crispin and all,
>
>     Do you know of any location that has these shells and has access
>     to TLUD gasifiers?Â Â  The combination of these shells and TLUDs
>     has great potential, but only if someone somewhere puts the two
>     together in a serious project or venture.Â  I would be interested
>     in having contact with people in such situations.
>
>     Paul
>
>     Doc  /  Dr TLUD  /  Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
>     Email:psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>    
>     Skype: paultlud      Phone:+1-309-452-7072 <tel:%2B1-309-452-7072>
>     Website:www.drtlud.com <http://www.drtlud.com>
>
>     On 9/2/2015 6:01 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Friends
>>
>>     Her are two fuels that are abundant (in places) and really
>>     interesting to work with. Both can be charcoaled and both are
>>     really strong.
>>
>>     Oil Palm Kernel Shells
>>
>>
>>     And
>>
>>
>>     Candle nut shells.
>>
>>
>>     The price is something like $70 per ton. Moisture is low and
>>     energy ins in the 18-19 MJ/kg range.Â  The can be burned in a
>>     TLUD to make charcoal, and the charcoal is strong enough to sell
>>     in sacks.
>>
>>
>>     The interesting about these fuels is they are not just available
>>     in many thousands of tons, they pack quite well so a packed bed
>>     gasifier is a pretty good burner.
>>
>>
>>     For crossdraft and downdraft enthusiasts, they can also be used
>>     in hoppers burning something and intermediate coal.
>>
>>
>>     Regards
>>
>>     Crispin
>>
>>
>>
>>
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