RH Carbonizer-Pump System: It's Working!

There had been a lot of challenges encountered during the past months of prototype development. Among them were as follows:
a. Designing and fabricating a small steam generator that could be mounted inside the carbonizer's ignition chamber - something that could generate adequate pressure and enough amount of steam to drive a 1-inch diameter jet pump for pumping water at a height of at least 2 meters.
b. A simple but efficient design of a jetpump - something that could easily be fabricated mostly from GI pipes and fittings and other locally available standard parts.

Finally, we were able to come up with a prototype of the whole system (carbonizer + pump) and subjected it to preliminary test just to see if it works before we schedule another one for data gathering. I attached a video footage taken during the conduct of the test.  It's working!!!

It's now Clean!

A visitor of this site provided me some insights on the possibility of burning the combustible gases before allowing them to escape through the chimney. As I studied the needed modification requirements, it is very possible and feasible with very minimal modifications to be done on the current prototype. Hence, during the past months, some modifications had been done to further enhance the performance of the carbonizer.

I posted a video footage of our recent testing for you to see the clean emission. The temperature generated at the combustion chamber has increased to around 900 degrees C.

My team is currently working on making the carbonizer generate steam while producing biochar. There are also some minor fabrication refinements that need to be done to minimize unnecessary entry of air that cause some of the carbonized rice hull to be transformed into ash while still at the bottom chamber.

I hope and pray that by the end of this year (2010), we can already come up with the complete prototype of the carbonizer-water pump system.