The members of this mailing list actively discuss the production of charcoal from large pieces of wood. This problem is important for those countries of Asia and Africa, where there is a lot of
wood, a lot of working hands and few environment regulations. I think, it is better to offer a solution now than to wait for an ideal solution some time in the future.

I offer a variant of such a furnace.
This design is not protected by the patent so anybody can use it, where regulations permit.

We are engaged in the manufacturing of renewable and non-conventional energy equipments. i.e. briquetting plants and biomass gasifiers.

Activities: manufacturing briquetting plants JUMBO 90 model with production capacity of 500 to 1500 kgs per hour, with an added benefit ;JUMBO 90 does not require hammer mill or sizing machine since residuals of upto 25mm can be fed directly. Moreover, it has been developed for minimum consumption of power and maintenance.

Kung Touche Village, UTA Agricel Takeo Province, Cambodia

Photos from a visit by Robert Deutsch, April 2005

Ankur Gasifier

Gasifier Wood Side

Ankur Gasifier Gas side

Reg Preston, April - September 2005

C. Van Milligen, October 2002

The October 2002 edition of Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide magazine on page 10 has an article on a demo plant in Eckernforde, Germany, by Sr. Franz Hirschbichler. This plant is producing wood gas from chips, cleaning the gas and fueling an internal combustion engine. The use a MDE turbocharged v12, 1.83 L/cyl, S1 Leanburn gas engine adapted to wood gas.

There seems to be some additional work required to get the plant operating as planned although they consider the demo to have proved the concept of wood gas for a CHP plant.