Dear rant, Hugh and All Interesting idea.
In my book, charcoal has the same vascular-cellular structure that was in the wood, shrunk 15% in all dimensions. According to Hugh Mclaughlin, it is like potato chips at the atomic level. When I grind it up in a food blender, I get a "smoke" of very fine particles leaking out. I believe that by attaching a small air supply to the blender I could make a charcoal "torch". Now comes Arnt's suggestion for making a composite. I think it should be a small % of starch, so that the final statue/jet d'art/briquette could be pyrolysed to a high density charcoal or GRAPHITE. (this might require baking above 800C.). It could have a density of 2.0 and drive nails. Graphite electrodesaremade at 3000 C! Comments Tom Reed, Pyrologist Dr Thomas B Reed President, The Biomass Energy Foundation www.Woodgas.com On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:26:28 +1300, doug.williams wrote in message > <D59D0CFDB6C446A7877487A5310E900F@dougspc>: > >> You might like to take this idea and run with it. I have always >> wanted to try and use the waste charcoal crushed to some small even >> size, and mix it with a bonding agent to make a domed construction of >> large surface area. I imagined that I might have to bake it in an >> oven, which would harden it off to make it quite robust. Any takers?? > > ..kaowool mats? Once saturated with ashy tarry charcoal > dust, can they be used in highway pavement? > >> Hope this stimulates some creativity of practical value, because >> filtration needs a nudge in the right direction for this application. >> Doug Williams, Fluidyne. > > > -- > ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen > ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... > Scenarios always come in sets of three: > best case, worst case, and just in case. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
