Hi Tony >Keith, >It is good to see someone else using the glycerol/sawdust 1 litre fire logs >I told you about some time ago.
Not just me, quite a few people I think - Peter in Holland too, I believe he said (in a woodburning stove). I usually credit you when I suggest it here. And here, of course: Burning glycerine http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_glycerin.html#burn I got the idea of burning it with sawdust from the STOVES list at REPP discussing briquetting sawdust and using a binder, then you finished the job by putting it in milk cartons. Only remaining problem is it works too well - we don't use very much glyc this way, not as much as we produce. But we use it for other things too, we're not quite among the "glycerine-bedraggled", as Todd once put it. >How moist are you making the mix? We try to compress it a lot, fill up the cartons in 4 or 5 steps and thump it down each time with a bit of wood that just fits the carton. We get about 750 g of glyc by-product and 450 g of shavings into a carton. We use shavings, not sawdust (we separate the sawdust and use it in the composting toilet). We don't use them immediately - they seem to work better after a few days and don't leak in the fire much, or at all, the by-product gets thoroughly absorbed into the shavings and seems to stay there. Otherwise we had free by-product running out of the burning cartons and making a bit of a mess, not all of it subsequently burned. We start it off with wood and get it burning hot first, and even though they were leaking onto burning wood it still made a mess. >I have tried a full range of mixes, but >they all work well Yes! >although the wetter ones tend to "weep" thru the carton, >making storage a problem. The waxy coating also gets on my hands along with >the coloured inks used to print the cartons. (these were filled during our >last summer). Hm, haven't had that - would you like me to send you a container-load of high-quality Japanese milk cartons? At only twice our normal fee... <g> Regards Keith >regards, >Tony Clark > >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 05:47:15 +0900 > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: WVO burners... > >Hi Mike > > >Thanks Keith, > > > >I must say I am honored to hear from you, as I have always been a silent > >admirer of your work. >SNIP > We also have a more or less endless >supply of offcut wood, and shavings which we mix with biodiesel >by-product and cram it into 1-litre milk cartons. They burn really >hot - three of them will heat an 80-litre bathtub to 60 deg C-plus in >40 minutes. They'd work well in those double-walled water heaters. So >would the wood, and so would a Turk burner I think. >SNIP >Best wishes > >Keith ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Special Sale: 50% off ReplayTV Easily record your favorite shows! CNet Ranked #1 over Tivo! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WUMW7B/85qGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
