[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,
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> Specifically is that weight, volume or Btu?
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> Stay warm,
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> Jeff
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> 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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