[Stoves] Coal dust briquetting

[alex english]

Here is an interesting document about spontaneous biomass heating.
http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/8/6/5143/pdf

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:15 PM Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <
crispinpigott at outlook.com> wrote:

> Millions!
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> I was attending a barn fire near my home in Cherrywood, Ontario about 1971
> or so, and as my step-father had an aqualung, I took it over. The barn was
> so full of pyrolysis gases from the auto-ignited hay (haylage, they called
> it) that it was becoming impossible to fight the fire.  There was serious
> danger of suffocation if anyone tried to “open the barn” higher up because
> it would take time.  Clearing the fire required removing the pyrolyzing
> material by hand with pitchforks as the community members could toss it to
> the front end loader.
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> I used the aqualung to enter the building and walk over the top of the hay
> though the gases (which really stung the eyes I might add) and kicked out a
> board at the end of the barn creating a ventilation hole.  Air then entered
> the working space and the pyrolysis gases left the building through one end.
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> That was my first experience with auto-ignition of biomass.
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> Later, a farmer in Saskatchewan worked out how to get his manure pile to
> “cook” and by passing a coil of water-filled pipe under it, or buried in
> it, he heated his house for a whole winter.  So the challenge is not to
> prevent “self-cooking” but to control it in a useful manner.
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> Right Paul?
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> Crispin
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> ++++++++
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> A question related to biomass waste parallel with coal - are there
> instances of auto-ignition in any biomass waste?>
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> N
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