[Stoves] Fuel Management - Bamboo Sawdust

[Ingelore Kahrens]

Hi Tony,

a friend in Zimbabwe constructed a very simple metall stove for burning 
plain sawdust/woodchips. It burned very well for about two hours. If you 
are interested, I can send you a drawing.

Cheers,

Ingelore Kahrens


Am 14.03.2017 um 17:48 schrieb Tony Vovers:
> 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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