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Innovative Funding of Biochar Production by TLUD Gasifier Stoves
1. Innovative Funding of Biochar
Production by TLUD Gasifier Stoves
in Developing Societies
Plus a YouTube Site on Biochar Production in Barrels
And an Introduction to the Troika Bingwa TLUD-ND
Paul S. Anderson, PhD “Dr TLUD”
psanders@ilstu.edu
Chip Energy, Goodfield, IL
Illinois Biochar Group
10 March 2014
http://www.biochar.illinois.edu/ibg.shtml
2. Barrel-size Retort for Biochar
Production
• YouTube video by Doug Clayton:
Making Biochar with Jolly Roger Ovens REVISITED
• Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMWf4_Dyqo
• Also the earlier document is available.
3. Innovative Funding of Biochar
Production: Quick Summary
• TLUD cookstoves are provided to groups of
households who agree to use the stoves with
their own fuel, and to pay a rental of $ .33 per
month plus a half-kilogram of charcoal per day
that is made in the TLUD gasifier stove.
• Users who do not accept to use the stove must
return it, and it will be issued to another cook.
• The company (Awamu in Uganda) will maintain
the stoves in working order at not cost to users.
• The value of the charcoal is the key to success.
4. Obstacles to Stove Acceptance
• Introduction of new cookstove technology
faces numerous obstacles, including:
– Opportunities to use the stoves before payment
for unknown technology.
– Cost of the cookstoves. Even $20 is quite high.
– Longevity of the stoves is questioned.
• Those 3 obstacles can be addressed by the
char-making capabilities of TLUD stoves.
5. TLUD Stoves Can Produce Char
• Char (or charcoal) is fuel that was not burned.
• Char is carbon that has been removed from
the atmosphere by living plants.
• The char is approximately 50% of the carbon
atoms in the biomass and 20% of the total dry
weight of the biomass.
• 1 kg of carbon equals 3.66 kg of CO2 from
atmosphere. 44/12 = 3.66
• Assuming some impurities, estimate 1 : 3.3, or
300 kg of char equals 1 ton of CO2e. This can
be produced in 1 year by 3 to 5 households.
6. Uses of Char
Either one use:
• Char can be burned in stoves specific for
charcoal fuel, so it has value for its energy.
Or BOTH of the following:
• Char can be beneficially added to soil as
biochar. AND
• Char represents permanent CO2 removal from
the atmosphere (the ultimate carbon sequestration).
The value of char for sequestration is
INDEPENDENT of its value as biochar.
7. The $ Value of Char
• In Uganda, approx. US$ .50 (urban retail) to
$ .20 (rural village) per kg of char for cooking.
• Typical households using a TLUD stove can
produce .5 to 1 kg of char per day, or 15 to 30
kg of biochar /month, and 180 to 360 kg /year.
• Using both of the low values: .5 kg of char X
20 cents/kg = 10 cents per day. X 30 days =
$3 per month. X 12 months = $36 per year.
But this is a “gross” value, not counting costs
of collection, briquetting, transport and sales.
8. Costs and Payments -- 1
• An appropriate TLUD stove costs about $20
and should last over 2 years (requiring some
maintenance done locally, estimate at $10).
• The collection of rental fees and char is by
each group of users (as in micro-finance groups).
• A company representative receives the rent
and char. Monthly a group of 10 households
would give $3.30 and 35 kg of char (dry basis).
• The char is then rendered permanently
unburnable (by mixing it with soil or compost
at the local area) (video-recorded on phones).
9. Costs and Payments -- 2
• The company has a documented PERMANENT
carbon sequestration that can be sold (or pre-sold).
• The company has a quantity of biochar that
can be sold, probably within the community.
• The combined values of the sequestration and
the biochar sustain the company.
• Remember: There ALSO are global efforts
with funding to accomplish adoption of
improved cookstoves for reasons of family
health and environmental protection.
10. Project Report – Early March 2014
• 24 TLUD-ND stoves (Quad design) were placed
into two semi-rural communities north of
Kampala in late January 2014.
• Acceptance by users is above 50%.
• Procedures for char collection, weighing,
correcting for moisture content, and
documentation of rendering uncombustible
are being defined and refined.
13. Further TLUD Stove Development
• Projects and R&D continue in
numerous countries.
• Could be part of “40 Chances.”
• Latest TLUD design (Troika) is
provided at website:
• www.drtlud.com/troika-tlud-stove
Thank you!
Paul Anderson “Dr TLUD”
psanders@ilstu.edu Troika Bingwa TLUD-ND
Made in Uganda.
Bingwa means Champion