[Stoves] Fuel Management - Bamboo Sawdust

Ingelore Kahrens tutaonana at onlinehome.de
Wed Mar 15 17:30:27 CDT 2017


Hi Tony,

I just watched the video about the stove developed by the Kisangani 
Smith Group. The stove I am talking about works exactly that way. It´s 
great! And the one from Tanzania is even done much better.

Ingelore


Am 15.03.2017 um 23:16 schrieb 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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