Producing charcoal from biomass

Charcoal production, links There are a multitude of methods of charcoal making. The only necessity is that the basic requirements are fulfilled. When charring for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, it is important to recall that the emissions from the charring shall not contain methane, because it is an even worse (22 times!) greenhouse gas than carbon dioxde. Although methane has a much shorter half-time in the atmosphere than the carbon dioxide (12 years vs. hundreds of years), there are no reasons to make evil worse. Charring is a knowledge as old as the knowledge of making fire. I will roughly start with he more primitive methods, go on with small scale, home garden methods and end up with large semi-industrial or industrial methods. One should recall that charcoal making is a large occupation all over the world, because charcoal is excellent for firing, rather smokeless and easy to handle. 'Primitive' methods, no emission reducion Charcoal Making at Home Charcoal making 2007, Flickr Comparing simple charcoal production technologies Make your own charcoal in an oil drum Making your own charcoal Traditional Earth-Mount Kiln Simple methods with emission reduction, for the backyard Bamboo Charcoal Making Charcoal kiln of oil drums Charcoal making, indirect retort method Charcoal retort Convert Wood into Charcoal & Electricity Household Energy How to make a charcoal-making kiln Puffergas The simplest of the simple, my own backyard method. Retort. Stove for cooking, too. Methods for a small community or a village Charcoal Production, Low or High volume charcoal production in refractory lined kilns Continuous carbonizations system for light and small pieces of biomass Low-cost retort kiln Making charcoal: The retort method Manufacturing and Marketing Natural Lump Charcoal Industrial methods Ekolon plan Continous producion closed retort charcoal reactor Lambiotte retort Companies Adam + Partner Advanced Biorefinery Inc. Agri-therm, Ltd. Alterna energy Airless-Systems Appropriate Rural Technology Institute Australian Biochars Best Pyrolysis, Inc Biocarbo Bioenergy Bioware Biopact Carbon Diversion Technologies Cleanfuels Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation Envipower AS eGenesis Industries Eprida Ensyn Corporation International K&K Enterprise Lambiotte & Cie Newearth Renewable Energy Pronatura Renewable Oil Corporation, Australia Renewable Oil International, USA Russian-Swedish Bioenergy Information and Training Center Terra Humana Clean Technology Topell Wyssmont Terra Preta list: Companies producing agrichar and agrichar technologies - More information about almost all the above companies Youtube videos Charcoal producing Micro Gasifier Hybrid Stove Making Charcoal Making Charcoal - drum retort Mr Charcoal - video #1 - video # 2 Modern charcoal producing stove with heated 2nd air The popup stove Resources The Biochar Fund Changes in Composition and Porosity Occurring During the Thermal Degradation of Wood and Wood Components, USGS Charcoalab - methods for teaching Charcoal production for carbon sequestration Charcoal Stability and Storage in Soil Comparing simple charcoal production technologies for the Caribbean RENEWABLE CARBON, Biomass Charcoal, Activated Carbon Simple technologies for charcoal making,FAO TerraCarbona, International Center for Biochar Research and Experiments Terra Preta bioenergy list resource page Terra Preta Google group resource page Discussion groups Biochar Ontario Making charcoal, Science forums Terra Preta, Intentional use of Charcoal in Soil Yahoo Group on Biochar use and production "The production and use of biochar at the individual and farm scale including investigations to determine the effectiveness of using charcoal to enhance soil fertility." Yahoo Group on Biochar as climate amendment Using Biochar in soil as a method of sequestering carbon and addressing the problems of Climate Change and Global Warming. Terra Preta Google group Naturally, the ordering above has large flaws, becauce the content often belongs to more than one heading. If you are interested, you should look them all through and decide which method that suits you. If you find completions that you consider important, please contact me! Back to the main page