[Stoves] Fuel Management - Bamboo Sawdust

[Tony Vovers]

Feeling blessed, what a great community, I really appreciate the tremendous
level of support to my query. My homework list is growing. What a great
diverse world we live in.
Time to get to work...

Tony Vovers

On Mar 16, 2017 06:31, "Ingelore Kahrens" <tutaonana at onlinehome.de> wrote:

> 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 <0813-3888-9062> (HP)
>
>
>
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