[Gasification] [biochar] ICM gasifier project comes to a close

Thomas Reed tombreed2010 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 09:11:45 CST 2012


Dear Jeff and all

Y 20-25% yields of charcoal in the WoodGas stove were weight %.  Typical volume % is around 70-85%, since that is the shrinkage of each chip as becomes charcoal.

Good question, good answer, I hope.

Tom Reed

Thomas B Reed 


On Dec 25, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Jeff Davis <jeff0124 at hughes.net> wrote:

> Dear Tom,
> 
> 
> Specifically is that weight, volume or Btu?
> 
> 
> Stay warm,
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2012-12-25 at 22:45 -0500, Tom Reed wrote:
>> I have measured the charcoal production rate for wood chips at various
>> conversion rates and moisture contents.  It can be as high as 25% with
>> bone dry chips,  but 20% is a safe number for 15% MC chips.  
> 
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