Biochar

Making Charcoal

31 January 2008 - 8:49am

How to Make Charcoal
Robert Flanagan, SAFFE, January 30, 2008

I've just been playing around with my natural draft stove to see how easy it would be to use it for cooking and making charcoal.

I fed some extra fuel in the side to show the pyrolysis reaction taking place.

China

Bamboo

CHARCOAL (how to make charcoal in a drum)

26 January 2008 - 10:24pm

The author, Gary Gilmore, explains how he designed a charcoal retort from 55 gallon drums. This is a smoke free design also the flare could be put to use.

Charcoal

Charcoal Production

Retort

Hybrid Stove Making Charcoal and Pan Cooking Burning Bamboo

29 July 2007 - 8:31pm

Henson

Hybrid Stove Making Charcoal (YouTube)
Lanny Henson, July 26, 2007

Biomass cooking stove burns wood to charcoal and saves the charcoal. One pound of wood cooks 6 kilos of rice and makes 65 grams of char.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXv7buNUMY

Hybrid Stove Burning Bamboo Pan Cooking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIsNZHSkX8k

Here is another 3 min video of the Hybrid Stove burning bamboo chips and pan cooking eggs.
Bamboo chips burns well in the Side Supply Burner but the pan only reached medium heat.
The heat from the burner seems to be diffusing and bypassing the pan. Enough heat is being generated by the burner but the pan module lacks focus.
Suggestions to fix pan module?

Lanny

TLUD Workshop in Seattle Friday Jan 27 9am-1pm before ETHOS

15 January 2012 - 1:42pm

TLUD Workshop being offered prior to ETHOS Conference
Hosted by Hydrovolts
Biomass Energy Foundation is offering a Workshop on the technical and practical concepts of its micro-gasification units. Dr. Paul Anderson aka “Dr TLUD” will provide an overview of the science and technology of the Top Lit Up Draft (TLUD) stove and its applications in meeting the cooking needs of local communities around the globe.
He will be assisted by Bob Fairchild, Christa Roth, and Kathy Nafie.