[Stoves] Fuel Management - Bamboo Sawdust

Tony Vovers vovers1 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 11:48:32 CDT 2017


Dear stovers

Looking for some advice or suggestions to utilise a source of excess
sawdust for institutional cookstoves at a school. in Indonesia.

After several attempts with various devices to burn the sawdust directly
have failed to be accepted by the kitchen over time I am now looking to
better fuel management as the solution.

Looking for simple lowcost options for Pelletizing or making briquettes
from the sawdust.

In various postings I have found reference to managing sawdust/husk fuel
using cowdung as a binding material and simple screw or lever based press
to create briquettes or cakes that are dried.

Although dung is locally available there is considerable resistance from
the staff to incorporate dung into the kitchen setting as part of the fuel.

The volume of source material available (6-8sacks/day) does not justify a
pelletizing machine and we feel this opportunity could make for a good
student lead project to create a sustainable fuel management process for
the kitchen/support staff.

The available sawdust fuel is from treated bamboo from local factory which
has some moisture content (18-20%) at time it is created.

I have seen reference to other "binding materials" or even partial
pyrolysis to bind the fuel and am looking for some suggestions of things to
try for a local pelletizing/briquetting process.
Or some arguments to accept dung as binding material.

We need to generate enough fuel to feed 6-8 stoves operating over 2-4 hours
food prep time on a daily or twice daily basis with reasonable efficiency.

Suggestions??

Tony Vovers
+62 (813) 3888 9062 (HP)
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