<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Paul, et al, <div>How about including Kuni za Leo, Huni Itsva, Eco lena, Nkuni za makono,..for your declention of "larger low density briquettes": It sounds so much richer in the Bantu and Latin tongues, don't you think ?<div>Richard Stanley</div><div><a href="http://www.legacyfound.org">www.legacyfound.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Michael M and all, (James, please
put this into the fuel part at the website after you edit it a
bit.)<br>
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You refer to something with several names like slugs, pucks,
high-density briquettes, large-diameter pellets, or "logs". <br>
It would be nice to have a single word name, but not yet agreed
upon. Pellets tend to be high density and small, and briquettes
tend to be low-density and "larger" diameter, resulting from high
pressure and low pressure production, respectively.<br>
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Anyway, I have used the slug/log stuff in TLUDs with great
success, usually. I have had some that would not burn well
because of the slug/puck, not because of the TLUD.<br>
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Two key "secrets" that need to be told:<br>
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The slugger (ram pressure, not auger or screw pressure) materials
are in layers often about a centimeter thick. They come out as
"logs" and break of at the end of long cooling tracks. They come
out hot, and when they cool as they go along a supporting track
they become harder and harder to separate into the individual
layers. <br>
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So Secret #1 is to have the slugs separated from each other much
closer to the production machine while they are still hot. For
small quantities, it can be done manually. For production runs
of slugs or pucks, a little engineering will have the pucks tapped
and then they fall off easily. They are not cut apart.<br>
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Secret #2 is a week old, and I learned it from Sadam, my master
tinsmith here in Uganda who has worked on TLUD stoves for several
years. He told me, and I have tried, with success, that the
slugs/pucks should be placed into the TLUD standing on their
edges, but not trying to recreate "logs". On edge, the primary
air passes between the pucks/slugs much more easily (favorable in
this case) then when the pucks are placed in horizontally, thereby
obstructing much of the air flow. SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!! If this
placement is found to be useful by others, please remember that
Sadam originated the method. (I will tell him I wrote this
when I see him tomorrow. He is not even on email<i>, </i>so he
will not see any Listserv replies.)<br>
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So, to Michael M., please let us know if any of this is helpful
about the vetiver grasses slugs/pucks.<br>
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Paul<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:psanders@ilstu.edu">psanders@ilstu.edu</a>
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.drtlud.com/">www.drtlud.com</a></pre>
On 1/8/2014 3:56 PM, Michael Mahowald wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I am talking to people who made the slugger, I am
most interested in the pellet/slugs they have made. I have a
sample myself but do not know of anyone who has used them in a
TLUD. I am wondering if they burn just as well, they are 2 1/2"
diameter and break off about every 1" (long).
<div>I have videos of pellet making machines we want to get to
Haiti. check it out on my web page: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://haitireconstruction.ning.com/" target="_blank">http://haitireconstruction.ning.com/</a><br>
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