[Stoves] Pyrocal: Rice Husk to Heat and Biochar in Vietnam

[Tom Miles]

This is an interesting development for carbonizing rice husk. It is the
latest evolution of a multiple hearth updraft gasifier from Australia.  

 

>From James Joyce, P.E. Pyrocal www.pyrocal.com.au 

 

Sept 22, 2015 PYROCAL and ECOFARM introduce the BIGCHAR 1200k 

 

An outline of the collaborative development of a biochar producing heat
source for traditional brick kilns in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam

 

https://youtu.be/2xtUmrRQ1i8 

 

March 25, 2015: Biochar Production at EcoFarm with a BiGchar 2200 

Biochar production with BiGchar technology at EcoFarm in Vietnam. This video
briefly brings you inside the technology while it is firing. Corn and rice
residues become fuel for drying the grains, resulting in biochar that is
blended with organic fertilizers and spread back into the fields. More info
at: www.pacificbiochar.com , www.pyrocal.com.au

 

https://youtu.be/_h3B3APYefs 

 

It seem to involve less equipment than the Kansai Corporation machines in
Japan. http://www.kansai-sangyo.co.jp/e-pr-h0.html

 

The potential for using rice husks for cooking, energy, and biochar was
obvious on a recent visit to several villages in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Rice husk burning cooking stoves were noticeably absent. Rice husk energy
should enable a higher quality of brick production, and essential
enterprise. The rice husk char is very useful for the local acidic soils.
Husks are currently used for burning in open piles over low quality bricks
in a "clamp" kiln    

 

Tom

 

 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bioenergylists.org/pipermail/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org/attachments/20150922/d054f4f2/attachment.html>