Peterson Press Too Demo.wmv

Demo of making fuel briquettes with the Peterson Press version Too. This press is a simplified way of making fuel briquettes for cooking fuel from agricultural waste. This saves poor people in third world countries from having to buy charcoal or gather wood for cooking fuel. This will also stop deforestation in many countries where the demand exceeds what can be grown on a sustainable basis.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Fuel Briquette
• Fuel Briquette Press
• Alternative cooking fuel
• Charcoal alternative
• wood alternative

[Claudiomarsantos]

Please, show us the biomass components!!!

[BeavertonRotary]

Ingredients are what you have available locally. Use leaves, grass, rice husks, coffee bean husks, banana peels, etc. If available you can add sawdust, dung, shredded paper or charcoal fines.

A good starting mix could be 40% shredded paper, 40% sawdust and 20% charcoal fines (eg the very small unsalable pieces you find in piles at a charcoal seller.) This requires no decomposition time, just soak the paper for a couple of days. Next start adding decomposed biomass from the above list.

[painfull94]

why not just one big log and then cut it

[BeavertonRotary]

You need to compress the wet raw material to 1/2 its length. I don't know of any hand operated press that can be made in poor countries with a longer compression stroke than a few inches. That's why we only make 2 at a time. For optimal burning with a 1" center hole you need an outside diameter of 4" and a 2" thickness. These 3 ratios are very important to maximize heat produced and minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

[beernchickens]

third world country's don.t have water or food to cook 

[tappakeggaday1]

@99cachorro you just brought up an interesting idea,people make paper crete blocks all of the time.why not have a square mold for something like this add a little concrete to it and use the paper leaves yard clippings ect. to make bricks for landscape and even building if the burn resistance is long enough?

[ksheriffdeen]

Using the car jack is a very good idea indeed. Thank you!

[stefchollet]

great video

thank you

[99cachorro]

building blocks could be made with various biomas materials. they could be pressed into rectangular shapes any size. you could even trim them using table saws.

[pera456789]

What's the purpose of shredded paper? Could the briquettes be made without it?