ref: Chaparal feed to charcoal for Joshua The commercial bigChar 2200 unit from Black is Green Pty in Australia is a product solution worth evaluation. BigChar 2200 <http://www.bigchar.com.au>
Don Murray, ing. EMISPEC Canada www.emispec.ca On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Joshua Bogart <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello > > I have been an observer on this list for a while, I don't think I have ever > sent a message. I am a biologist who works with Agroforestry, and would like > some opinions on a potential project. > I am working with a couple of groups in Honduras who own medium to large > tracts of land (30-1,000 acres) which are covered with chaparal (lowland, > secondary forests dominated by species in the generas *Prosopis, Mimosa*, > and *Acacia*) This land is of relatively low quality for agriculture in > the past was used as pasture land but even of low quality for that. We are > currently looking at the potential for firewood harvests through thinning of > multiple stems and rotational cutting. Depending on the quality of > th site we are assuming that we can get a harvest of aprox. 20 tons per acre > on a 10 year cutting scheme, so on the smallest tract we should be able to > harvest 60 tons per year, This is all small diameter wood <5 inches. > > There is a local market for this firewood and at least in the smaller > tracts we would be able to sell as dry firewood, but I am looking into the > possibility of converting to charcoal which would increase the value and > lower the costs of transportation, if it would be possible to produce energy > for local use all the better. How difficult would it be to design a system > that would 1) work on this type of material, 2) provide > an efficient charcoal production, 3) provide some energy for local use? > > -- > Joshua D Bogart > Program Coordinator > Trees for the Future > Siguatepeque HN > Barrio Macaruya, Calle, 21 de Agosto > cellular (504) 9696-3700 > home/casa 740-1060 > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ > >
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