How to make charcoal briquettes from agricultural waste

Demonstration on how to make charcoal briquettes, by Amy Smith of D-Lab, MIT (http://web.mit.edu/d-lab/). For more information, please contact charcoal@mit.edu. The charcoal is made from agricultural waste materials using an oil drum. In this case maize stalks were used. The charcoal is compressed to briquettes using a simple hand-operated press. The demonstration was held during the IPIDAT 2009 meeting.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• charcoal
• corn
• MIT
• D-Lab
• IPIDAT
• briquette
• fuel
• agricultural
• press
• stalks
• maize

[dramey03]

what a smart lady, god i wish there were more like this then those lady gaga kinds

[Akvofoundation]

@Thetruthishere11 The idea is to make use of a material that normally would be wasted and just rot on the field. Wood means trees, and the whole idea is to spare trees.

[PyR0Star]

I need to know some really good ways to crush it...... She says oh there's a lot of ways to do it, but after searching, there's no vids or info I can find to crush a lot of the charcoal I'm making. I either have to stomp on it in a bunch of bags, put it in a blender (magic bullet), or put in a ball mill, none which have worked effeciently. I'd say the best method I've used was the magic bullet. Someone help me with a better idea for smashing lots of charcoal to airfloat or close!

[SuperKluckster]

what an annoying voice ,, mono toned ,lol

[hamzakoyatp]

i to make cassavo porridge ?

[audaxboy]

All living things are made out of carbon..

[deathnote667]

she's a dirty girl

[beernchickens]

I have an idea for a solar powered hacksaw but it gets so hot you cant pick it up

[beernchickens]

I think I spotted waldo

[888mrshoe]

@UnknownNewDisease cassava porridge is starch paste, potato paste or other starches what we used to used to stick wallpaper with until we refined it and called it cellulose paste same stuff fancy name,when you next cook pasta and are left with slimy water its starch or calories take your pick