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mikethewormguy
curious to know how many folks are using wheat straw char, bone char, wood char, and other biomass chars.... wood char is only one type of char....... Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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d.michael.shafer@gmail.com
At Warm Heart we use no forest wood. Our primary feedstocks are corn stalk, corncob and rice straw. We also char branches pruned by orchard owners that would otherwise be burned. In Africa, our feedstocks are millet and corn stalk, and corncob. M
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Gordon West
We are using pecan shells, wood chips, and most recently pelletized juniper slash. One of our main objectives is to utilize waste from thinning and fuels reduction projects - the kind of material that is burning in California right now, for instance.
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Gordon West The Trollworks 503 N. “E” Street Silver City, NM 88061 575-537-3689 An entrepreneur sees problems as the seeds of opportunity.
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mikethewormguy
gordon, are you doing the pelleting.. ? mike Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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Gordon West
Mike,
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Yes, we bought a 15HP Chinese pellet machine and are using a 3/8” die. The main objective was to pelletize thinning slash, which is otherwise of negative value, and create a densified storable, transportable feedstock for building heating and process heat (char making co-product). Normally slash is too low in bulk density and consistency to be worth messing with. The first run of juniper slash pellets are fairly low density (25#/cf) but they are holding together well. I think the moisture content was a bit high and we expect to get to 35# at lower MC, which will be fine. I’m told by a “real" pellet guy that we’ll save electricity and the dies will last longer at 35# rather than 40# (the normal pellet stove density). These pellets would not be good for ordinary pellet stoves because they are “dirty”. But we want them to be used to make char, so not a problem. Gordon
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mikethewormguy
gordon, some of the attributes that we like from charred hard wood pellets include the physical stability, microbial growth substrate, ease of spreading, and it's shape. we have used a blend of microbially enriched (ME) charred wood pellets and pelleted chicken compost, as well as, a blend of ME charred wood pellets and pelletized spent mushroom substrate/char powder, as soil additives, for our veggee production which resulted in a statistically significant number of yums from those who ate the harvest...... let us know how we can be of service...... mike Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
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