<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
h1
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.Heading1Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1";
font-weight:bold;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.watch-title
{mso-style-name:watch-title;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>This is an interesting development for carbonizing rice husk. It is the latest evolution of a multiple hearth updraft gasifier from Australia. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From <span lang=EN-AU>James Joyce, P.E. Pyrocal </span><a href="http://www.pyrocal.com.au">www.pyrocal.com.au</a> <span lang=EN-AU><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sept 22, 2015 PYROCAL and ECOFARM introduce the BIGCHAR 1200k <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>An outline of the collaborative development of a biochar producing heat source for traditional brick kilns in the Mekong Delta of Southern Vietnam<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><a href="https://youtu.be/2xtUmrRQ1i8">https://youtu.be/2xtUmrRQ1i8</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>March 25, 2015: Biochar Production at EcoFarm with a BiGchar 2200 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Biochar production with BiGchar technology at EcoFarm in Vietnam. This video briefly brings you inside the technology while it is firing. Corn and rice residues become fuel for drying the grains, resulting in biochar that is blended with organic fertilizers and spread back into the fields. More info at: www.pacificbiochar.com , www.pyrocal.com.au<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><a href="https://youtu.be/_h3B3APYefs">https://youtu.be/_h3B3APYefs</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seem to involve less equipment than the Kansai Corporation machines in Japan. <a href="http://www.kansai-sangyo.co.jp/e-pr-h0.html">http://www.kansai-sangyo.co.jp/e-pr-h0.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The potential for using rice husks for cooking, energy, and biochar was obvious on a recent visit to several villages in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Rice husk burning cooking stoves were noticeably absent. Rice husk energy should enable a higher quality of brick production, and essential enterprise. The rice husk char is very useful for the local acidic soils. Husks are currently used for burning in open piles over low quality bricks in a “clamp” kiln <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>