Making Charcoal - Part One
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2010
- Chris Wall-Palmer in his woodland near the South Downs, making charcaol. Lighting the kiln and getting the burn underway. This time the kiln is mainly full of alder.
For more information and opportunities to meet Chris and learn about charcoal burning or firewood use in stoves and fires check out www.charcoalburners.co.uk were you can find details of our new firewood awareness workshops. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
This is how clouds is made
Part one you should show you loading the thing? I think my wife is gonna be pissed. This is gonna be fun.
you can also make a retort and burn a fraction of the fuel wood you use to keep the reaction going. The wood being carbonized gives off enough syngas to sustain it's own reaction. A self-fueling gasifier. You can make some moderate modification to your GIANT gasifier and have a self-fueling, clean burning, rocket retort, charcoal maker.
The greenhouse gasses released when he's making charcoal just replaces the gasses the wood he is burning consumed while it was growing. The tree would eventually die and rot and release the same greenhouse gasses.
+Purple Haze charcoal making gives alot of smoke contributing to the greenhouse gasses
john marvin pasol it would eventually rot and release the same gasses anyway.
agreed
Purple Haze well said.same when burning tires right?
That's not correct, and not how the carbon cycle works.
My neighbors would be pissed!
MY neighbors would turn me in to the city. NO outside burning allowed. Ever.
***** So very true.
Burning wood isn't an environmental hazard in the same way burning coal/oil/gas is.
Isn't all the vapor and smoke from charcoal making highly flammable and worth using? And if not wouldn't it be more conscientious to pipe it through a water barrel or another kind of scrubber to attempt to not dump tonnes of crap into the air for no reason?
It's mesmerizing.
How to create a lot of smoke-101
I am no expert, but I've watched hundreds of charcoal making videos on TH-cam and never seen anywhere close to this much smoke
When I saw this part I figured he must just be using green wood that still has a lot of moisture in it. Iif you listen in part 3 he confirms that and mentions that a lot of what your seeing coming out of the top is just steam, not smoke.
This is intense and relaxing at the same time, love it!
The smoke bellowing is beautiful to watch.
Just like clouds
@EzeeSKANKIN Charcoal is produced for a variety of reason. It is lighter than wood. It starts faster and gets to full heat incredibly fast. It creates very little smoke (since all the natural oils have been pushed out of it) and It burns evenly
Fantastic video. I may switch from coal to charcoal now.
really enviroment-friendly!
now i know what happened to the ash cloud over iceland, its in the south downs.
Would have been interesting to see what the kiln looks like before being fired.
Also the lighting procedure is essential.
The beginning looks like a magic ritual.
They should capture the smoke and use it to generate power via the wood gassifier.
Pretty sweet set up Do yo make it to sell or use it for work ? I know roofers use large quantities for hot tarring Sometimes and i would imagine its a good resource for other trades as well
hope i make cloud like this with my new RDA
Wet wood makes a lot of steam. Thanks for posting.
yea that's how charcoal is made moron. after the steam a few other flammable things like methane burn off which can be seen at 10:00 into this video. so it is charcoal genius, which is what the title says
Scooter is very observant
very good
if you had a way to collect the smoke you could use it as fuel for the fire. have you ever got it to hot and the smoke ignited?
burn the big particulates if you're going to make charcoal just burn the big particulates you can see coming out
Good lord imagine this on an industrial scale. I make charcoal in my backyard and give off some smoke but holy Moses that’s some smoke
You could also use the syngas to run a generator and crack water into HHO and store it for future use. Wood vinegar, the liquid residue , is a very valuable agricultural product used in Asia for insecticide and fertilizer. Use this as a template for the general concept. On Picasaweb look for Rockin' Rocket Retort or just google Rockin' Rocket Retort.
HINT! To make the best I use morning wood! I take about 8 inches of it and use the friction method. After several minutes of heat and pounding I test the load. You can do it with a friend or even by yourself. If anyone is interested in a workshop on this let me know.
Can someone please explain whats it looks like underneath? Is the wood sitting on the floor? Is the klin sitting on the channel?
does no one here notice that that isn't all smoke? he used wet wood so that has a large amount of steam mixed into it and to add to that it isn't a solid circle of smoke its hollow.
Urrrm he seasoned the wood... Nobody should be using green wood in a kiln
Why is fire so awesome?
Carbon monoxide and -dioxide do not destroy the ozone. You're thinking of Chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) with your comment.
It's also important to note that Antartica completely loses the ozone above it EVERY year. Which means that it regenerates completely every year, too.
@gettingahandle It should work. We had a bowl about this big in college.
Thats some amount of by-product going up in smoke! A good few gallons at least!
What's byproduct
+Awesemo3ooo Ok it's the stuff made from a reaction ex. charcoal
he was burning away more charcoal than he could have stopped by sealing the container
he could have sold the by-products had he had his head screwed on, But more work and a better set up needed to do such a thing and I suppose hes not interested in the by-product?
I might try this my nebors haven't complained in a while
This beats the crap out of the smoke bombs I buy at the firework store.
which wood do you al use?
does anyone know if you are able to do this without permits? it seems like this could really mess up a low flying plane
Interesting video and a bit concerning. The part 4 title image looks like he's on fire, I'm glad it's just the PoV.
I'm guessing this is a commercial endeavor versus for privet use?
If it was for privet use that one load would take some time to consume (1 to 2 months+)?
It looks like he's done this enough that the fire brigade either receives a call from him or they call him to confirm he's processing (I hope the former, not the latter).
I wonder how many cords (lbs) of wood goes in that kiln(?) and the amount of charcoal (% or lbs) he gets out?
Thank-you for the time and keep safe.
i thought the smoke was flammable? when i make charcloth and charcoal i light the smoke and when the flame goes out, it means it is done. why did it not light on fire when it touched the open flame (coming out of the holes that you lit first) at the bottom?
So could the smoke be pipe off to the other tanks???
Is this from VHS? There's something analog about it.
Yea you are
What quantity of charcoal would this kiln produce?
Refereed this vid to all the crying sooks that complain about the bit of occasional smoke my oil burners put out.
This can't be great for ones health. I'm sure no matter how much you tried to avoid it, you'd be sucking in a lot of smoke.
I can't seem to get away from it with a camp fire let alone something like this.
I'd be putting a big fan up above and to the side of the kiln so it at least tended to go in one direction and I could stand upwind.
Don't know how the guy isn't crying like a baby with all that smoke in his eyes. I would be.
where can we get info on this?
We get it dude, you vape.
No he smoked actually
what heated the bottom?
There is once it's actually wood gas, but not using This method. Some of the smaller retort designs actually use the wood gas to increase the heat on the inner crucible.
Forgive me for my lack of knowledge of making charcoal. Are you effectively just drying the wood out? The plumes of white smoke are just steam?
I hope you plant trees double the amount of what you cut. Save the environment.
a years supply of wood gas up in smoke
That's right, NO open fires allowed in our backyards, whether in small, well-controlled pits or otherwise. We may, however, have as large a fire as we wish if we're burning natural gas..
the smoke will burn, light it. Will not change the charcoal process.
The bottom of the drum is a hole?
LIGHT THE BEACON!!
I'm from the middle of the Pacific Ocean - approximately 5000 miles away from California and the nearest coast of Australia - and would like to seek ideas on how to build a kiln. An 8 lb bag of charcoal in my country is roughly $25 usd, but we have all these drift wood laying on the beaches, unused. Your projects are the best I've come across in my TH-cam research. Please help. Thanks.
Check out the primitive technology channel on youtube. It's really just a container of some kind, and sealed off from oxygen at some point.
where is exactly? i assume your places are full of laying coconut shell, you can become millionaire in few month with minimum initial capital!
Holy smokes
We get it. You vape
Hahaha
Ngl I laughed
Oh God,how did I get here and how do I get out?
it is a wast too that smoke can be condensed and sold as fuel. where do you think Coal Oil comes from
Is that smoke or steam?
Time to find a new method...
My bff lives there.
Run!!!! I hear banjos!!!!
Like the bit about making charcoal but that smoke is outta control. Surely there's a way of chimneying? that smoke and burning it off?
damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the smoke still contains a lot of methane which is a 25 times stronger greenhouse gas than CO2. Which means it would be so much better to just burn te wood or at least set the smoke on fire in a chimney or whatever.
Everyone is really angry here
That's because they're ignorant. Most have no idea what they're talking about. Stupidity abounds in today's world.
thats because they live in tower blocks in london,
@@daveberry9922 lol
Did you see where it smoked a little bit?
Is alder good for smoking meats? 2 for 1, or maybe heat water.
that was some smoke
hey buddy. have you tried sucking that smoke trying to recover some fuel in it. just like gasifier.
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the smell must be delightful
Turn the vol. Up
Wondering if he put a match to that smoke would it ignite?
Yes. Explosively, in fact.
4:30 Smokebomb :P
So in a manner o speaking this is much like a huge meat smoker minus the meat. So then you have a large amount of charcoal, you activate it through another process and you have activated charcoal.
That is a LOT! of smoke!
wood smoke is doing next to nothing to the atmosphere compared to factories and transportation. Its just that this seems worse because its a relatively high emission to sq meter ration
the ultimate smoke bomb
yeah that's absolutely right. at the very least pipe that gas your just venting off to a small engine or something and use it to power a grid tied generator so when your not using the power atleast your makeing money selling it back to the electric company.
But you'll agree that the original statement "goodbye to the ozone" was absolutely unfounded, right?
Sure, CFCs contribute to the greenhouse effect. I meant to imply otherwise, but only for simplicity of identifying their primary effect; not to intentionally mislead people's understanding of their total affects. Carbonmonoxide and -dioxide still don't affect the ozone in the slightest bit, though.
You could make a lot of ramen noodle soup in that pot
I like your thought process, mate.
1 onley you can prevent forest fires "Smokey"
no he's burning off most of the elements of the wood leaving behing maily carbon. he has a lid on it to limit the amont of oxygen getting to the wood so that it won't just turn to ash. alittle more to it than that, it's just a basic explaination.
To those who think this is bad for enviroment, you are correct. But just know over 20 or 50 years those trees have picked up enough carbon, mixed it with oils and biological materials to form wood. So what these guys are doing is burning off the oils leaving only the carbon behind.
*What they could do to make this more efficient is route the smoke from the top through pipes and and into a box where it will mix with air and back under the fire, making the temparature higher and using the already flammable smoke to further speed up the process. What i think is possible some people have already done i bet, but this is just a waste of very very potential energy. OR they could capture this smoke, concentrate it into a tar by running bubbles through water or something, woh knows? But that smoke going off into the air is doing more harm then the Co2 everybody is crying about. It really isn't bad, becuase that same Co2 will be recaptured by some other trees.*
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if that was a sealed container you could be burning all that smoke=gas in a generator // a gasifier and still get the same amount of charcoal in the end ..
Once the smoke gets thick, wouldn't it be ok to set it on fire? As long as the fire does not get inside, I don't see a problem with it. I've heard that for the ordinary citizen, making charcoal is illegal in the US because of the smoke produced.
What can the charcoal be used for after it is made?
smoke'm if you gottem!
I'm not quite clear on why make charcoal? I mean, I use it for smoking meat myself... Didn't realize it was so, so much work to make. But it has me thinking, why not just smoke with wood? Sorry, dumb questions.
OH! And what then is being given off? What's in the smoke?
Because you cant run a forge on wood.
I guess white smoke is a good burn for high quality charcoal. and it might be more pollution than this when we drive everyday and every single one have one car.
When you hotbox and entire forest #420blazeit
+Exile N Subjugate Lol
You need to filter that smoke!
most of that smoke is vaporized pitch anyway
a bellows fan might help
+Scott Awaywithit i think the idea to make charcoal is to heat the wood with a absence of oxygen otherwise the wood would burn so bellows no good! the charcoal thing is about starving the fire of oxygen hence the massive amounts of smoke.
+Bwoy Ruff I think he meant under the fire, but it wouldn't be needed as there is air pipes
Ozone masacre
did you not see he was responding to someone?