Charcoal Fuels Workflow

Basics

• This page shows how Biomass turns into Charcoal (Both in the "Raw" sense, and potentially more "refined" forms such as pellets/standard dimention "briquettes" etc) in various workflows, but mainly focuses on workflows optimized for high quality products (Via washing to produce as pure of carbon as possible), and efficiency via Energy Recovery (Mainly utilization of Syngas and/or Pyrolysis Oil to reduce heating fuel needs)
• This is not for use as Activated Carbon , for that see the Activated Carbon Workflow

Workflows

Basic Workflow

• Biomass->Kiln->Charcoal Out
• With potential storage between steps
• Biomass can be peletized, but for a very basic workflow this will most likely not be needed, unless using fuel crops such as grasses etc that will not form "chunky" charcoal like wood etc would

Advanced Workflow

• This is designed to produce the best product, extract as many useful products as possible, and mainly be used in makerspace level and up

Flowchart

Feedstocks

• Biomass
• Water

Products

• Charcoal Powder
• Charcoal Pellets
• Charcoal Briquettes

Waste Products

• Wastewater Containing
  • Alkali metals
  • Misc Minerals
  • ?

Disposal Workflows

• Evaporation Pond or
• Spray Dryer

Internal Links

• Open Source Fuels Construction Set

External Links

• On Staged Pyrolysis THEN Gassification
• "Study of the Effect of Coal Type and Particle Size on Char–CO2 Gasification via Gas Analysis" (use to determine optimum particle size?)