How To Make Your Own Lump Charcoal

http://www.nakedwhiz.com/makinglump.htm



I thought this was worth a look. Might get some ready for next summer.

biochar in general can be pretty handy.

you can do this with almost any biomass. good for humic soil building as well as stable fuel production, and it could be a fair method of brown waste disposal.

Excellent, thank you for sharing

That's a great post. I have never thought about it but it's exactly like making char cloth just on a larger scale. Good post!!

Cool post, the biochar process produces off gassing which can be used to fuel internal combustion engines. It is called Wood Gasification also Producer Gas. When you consume the components of the wood that produce the gas, charcoal is all that remains. You can then use the charcoal as a heating fuel.

The off gassing has been used for running trucks and cars. I tried to find an article about some one who used the heat of the process to heat his work space and the wood gas to power a gas powered generator for the shop electric and then used the charcoal in his house stove.

I did find this,

http://www.green-trust.org/cover.jpg

http://www.green-trust.org/woodgas.htm

charcoal as a by-product of gassification???

Nice post Boker.

@ Nell - not that kind of gasification.:lol:

When I was doing a lot of drawing and sketching a while ago I ran into this same kinda thing on a smaller scale, mainly for making pieces of charcoal for art. Ended up taking small pieces of wood, wrapping them in aluminum foil, and placing them in a fire for a few minutes.
http://www.clt.astate.edu/elind/charcoalinstr.htm

There was a place (I lost the bookmark) that had a similar setup to the one posted, except with a pipe running from the top of the barrel down to the fire, so that the escaping gases from the wood actually fueled the fire.

Wood gasification was pretty big back in the 80's.
Mother Earth News had a bunch of articles on them, as well as a several projects, including a Chevy pick up and a power plant, running on wood gas.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Energ...Generator.aspx

Attended the MEN Village in Hendersonville N.C, back in '84 and saw the power plant operating.
Intresting stuff.

This how most blacksmiths make charcoal.

http://www.twinoaksforge.com/BLADSMI...20CHARCOAL.htm

My technique is much simpler - I wait for Santa to bring mine.

That's coal you big lug. This is about CHARcoal. Sheeeeeesh.

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