Making Charcoal and Biochar
eBook - ePub

Making Charcoal and Biochar

A comprehensive guide

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Making Charcoal and Biochar

A comprehensive guide

About this book

Making Charcoal and Biochar is written with the interested amateur in mind, with the certainty that anyone who has a go at making charcoal will soon get the bug. Before you know it, you will be upgrading to a shiny new retort and there will be no looking back! This book gives a wide range of possibilities for making charcoal on a small scale and for commercial production. There are chapters on the heritage skills of earth burns, the enduring popularity of metal kilns and the future represented by the charcoal retort. Biochar - or small particle charcoal - has been heralded as an ancient but rediscovered 'super substance' that can increase soil fertility and productivity whilst locking up carbon into the ground. This book looks at the ongoing discussion and weighs up the evidence. It concludes with a celebration of the myriad ways in which charcoal can be put to use. Covering the essentials for starting a business such as legislation and marketing, there are also chapters on why charcoal is in the ascendency from the ubiquitious barbecue to the most recent research into biochar and carbon sequestration. Fully illustrated with 195 colour photographs.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword by Don Kelley
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 How Charcoal is Made
  10. 3 Earth Burns and Pit Kilns
  11. 4 Metal Kilns and Brick Kilns
  12. 5 Retorts
  13. 6 Bagging and Marketing Charcoal
  14. 7 Legislation and Regulation
  15. 8 Cooking with Charcoal
  16. 9 Biochar and Carbon Sequestration
  17. 10 A to Z of Charcoal Products
  18. Appendix: Comparative Table of Charcoal Production
  19. Glossary
  20. Bibliography
  21. Useful Addresse
  22. Index