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.

[czg2012]

i nominate her for a noble peace prize!

[808ROTY09]

can the casava meal and oil be substituted with something else?

[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