Renewable Carbon: Biomass Charcoal, Activated Carbon

CHARCOAL

• Low Cost Charcoal Without Wood, (From Sugar Cane Leaf), Appropriate Rural Technology Institute [ARTI], Pune, India, AD Karve

• CANECOAL, Charcoal from Sugar Cane Bagasse in Western Kenya, Elsen Karstad May 2003
• Wood Energy Conversion: Charcoal ProductionFAO RWEDP
• Charcoal (Chapter 3) USDA Forest Service
• Charcoal Production US EPA
• Making Charcoal a Startup Business Opportunity

PRODUCTS, PROPERTIES AND FEEDSTOCKS

• Chardust, Ltd.Nairobi, Kenya, Matthew Owen, Elsen Karstad

• Bioenergy Ltd., St. Petersburg, Russia, Yury Yudkevitch (In Russian)
• Biocarbon Initiative GRAN CHACO, Argentina

KILNS AND EQUIPMENT

• OPET WP4 Promotion of Low Temperature Carbonization (LTC) Technologies, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Institute for Solid Fuels Technology and Applications, Greece
• ICPS Improved Charcoal Production System, Chris Adam, Adam + Partner, Germany 2005
• Simple Technologies for Charcoal Making, FAO Forestry Paper 41, 1987
• Charcoal Production Kiln/Retort Rictec

CHARCOAL COOKING STOVES

• Charcoal Stoves on the Biomass Cooking Stoves Discussion List www.bioenergylists.org
• The NEW PDI- Family Cooker (Pakistan Design Institute -Family Cooker), Chris Adam, May 2005
• Sazawa Charcoal Stove Designed for Efficient Use of Charcoal C. Pesambili, F. Magessa and N. Mwakabuta, Tanzania Traditional Energy Development and Environment Organization (TaTEDO) Dar Es Salaam 2003
• Pyromid Cooking Stoves Paul Hait

RURAL CHARCOAL INDUSTRY

• In Pictures: Charcoal in Chad, BBC News UK, Richard Stanley February 2006

• Turning Sawdust to Charcoal in MalaysiaAuke Koopman
• The Making of Charcoal in Malaysia
• Simple Technologies for Charcoal Making, FAO Forestry Paper 41, 1987
• Making Charcoal From Chopstick Bamboo, Lampang, Thailand
• Thailand: Charcoal Burners in Trang Town
  
  
• The Zambia charcoal utilisation programme Stockholm Environment Institute

• English Charcoal
• Lakeland Coppice, UK, How Our Charcoal is Made

ADVANCED PROCESSES

• Continuous Carbonization System CCS_INTT Chris Adam, Appropriate Technologist and Designer, Germany January 17, 2005, Revised April 5, 2006

• Biocarbons (Charcoal) Flash Carbonization of Biomass, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Mike Antal
• Charcoal from Wet Carbonaceous Material, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, Mike Antal
• Torrefied WoodTransnational Technologies
• Dynamotive Technologies

ACTIVATED CARBON

• Activated Carbon Processing,pdf USDA

• Biomass to Hydrogen Reforming Project, EPRIDA, Dan Day
• Production of Granulated Activated Carbon from Select Agricultural Wastes, USDA, ARS

CHARCOAL AND WATER PURIFICATION

• Chemical Methods of Water Treatment: 2.3 Charcoal and activated carbon adsorption World Health Organization, Water Sanitation and Health
• What is Activated Carbon and Why is it used in Filters? How stuff works
• Environmental Health Project (EHP)Publications USAID
• Water and Sanitation Portal MIT
• Water, Sanitation and Health (WSH) World Health Organization
• Drinking Water in Developing Countries Information and Organizations

CHARCOAL AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Carbon Monoxide from Cookstoves in Developing Countries, Zhang et. al.Berkeley

• Inventory of Wood Used in Charcoal Making in Zambia, WWF
• Emissions of Air Toxics from a Simulated Charcoal Kiln Equipped with an Afterburner US EPA 2001

PUBLICATIONS

• Simple Technologies for Charcoal Making, FAO Forestry Paper 41

HISTORY OF CHARCOAL PRODUCTION

• Charcoal Making in Anglo-Saxon England

• Fayette Charcoal Kiln
• Fuel for the Fires: Charcoal Making in the 19th Century Timothy Crumrin