Prevention of spontaneous combustion of coal dust using solid aerosol

Many homes in the private sector still have wood-burning stove heating. And there is no need to talk about the baths, they are almost all heated with wood. The only problem is that such fuel has become quite expensive today, which means that you need to look for an alternative. A very interesting idea to resolve this issue was suggested by the author of the YouTube channel "Mikhalych TV or by your own hands", who suggests making long-burning briquettes with your own hands from cardboard and coal dust. In today's review, other components of such fuel will also be considered.

Equipment you need to work

In order to make briquettes of long burning, you will need an old bathtub, a washing machine made in the USSR and a press that can be made by hand. In today's article there will be no instructions on how to make it, however, if a home craftsman decides to make such a press, it will be enough for him to see it in a photo example - there is nothing complicated there.

This is what a press for making long burning briquettes looks like.

Raw materials for briquettes, how to prepare it

As a raw material for long-burning briquettes, ordinary cardboard is used, which must be soaked in water for about one and a half days (more is possible). Before you soak the cardboard in the bathroom, you need to cut it into strips, so it will be better saturated with water.

Now many are perplexed why such briquettes need cardboard, which burns very quickly in a fire. In fact, this is not entirely true. The soaked cardboard is needed as a binder, like cement in a solution. And it will not burn quickly - the press and coal dust will do their job.

The cardboard is cut into strips and soaked in water for at least one and a half days

Loading raw materials into the washing machine

Old Soviet-made washing machines are good because they have survived to our times and continue to work, as they did three or four decades ago. In order to prepare the basis for long burning briquettes, it is best to use just such a trouble-free unit.

The soaked cardboard is loaded into the washing compartment a little more than half of the container. Why exactly in the washing machine? It is the ideal shredder for soaked cardboard. After all, in order to be able to mix it with coal dust, it is required to bring the cardboard to a mushy state, and the old washing machine copes with this task perfectly.

The soaked cardboard is loaded into the washing machine

Now you need to thin the mass a little. To do this, 2.5-3 buckets of water are poured into the machine (it is taken directly from the bath). By the way, in order to avoid too much consumption, the liquid squeezed out of the raw material by the press is also collected in a bucket and returned to the bath.

2.5-3 buckets of water are poured into the machine

Now you can start the washing machine and go do other things. However, don't count on a lot of time. Usually some 5-7 minutes are enough, after which you can continue downloading.

After the specified time, you should see how well the cardboard is ground. If everything is in order, you can add the next ingredient.

You should get such a mushy mass

Adding coal

Coal dust has always been considered waste. After all, it is quite problematic to heat the stove with it. The dust is too dense, and therefore completely blocks the flow of oxygen to the flame, as a result, the fire goes out. Here, coal dust will be mixed with cardboard particles, so there is no need to be afraid of problems in the supply of oxygen.
The entire batch of cardboard, which was shredded in a washing machine, will require a little more than half a bucket of coal dust. If you add more, then the briquettes will turn out to be loose, they will crumble, which means that there can be no talk of prolonged burning.

A little more than half a bucket of coal dust is poured into the crushed cardboard

A couple more minutes of machine operation, and the mass can be put into the press.

How to make black soap (and black pigment on my own

Black soap turns out to be extremely interesting.

Matte or glossy, it has a mystical effect and looks amazing in a soap dish. In addition, such a stylish bar is most appropriate to give to a man. And if you also add a smoky masculine scent to it…. Mmmm However, there are very few black pigments or dyes on the Russian market of soap accessories. What should we do when we so want to send charcoal-black soap? And here is the answer - use coal!

You will need

charcoal (or activated) *.

glycerol

Attention! Not all coal is created equal. You cannot use hookah charcoal to add to the soap, because it is specially impregnated with a liquid for ignition. Better get activated charcoal from a pharmacy, make it yourself, or buy charcoal for a kebab. However, always read the composition on the charcoal bag to avoid unpleasant consequences.

So. you have a block of charcoal or an activated tablet, but what to do with this good? I have an answer! Place the charcoal in a bag, wrap it tightly and use a hammer or hammer to beat the meat. Thoroughly beat your coal. Do not spare your strength! In a minute you will be full of coal dust. Just do not open the package if you do not want to be like negritonka. It is better to cut off the tip of the bag and pour the dust directly into the glycerin. Mix thoroughly. Everything! Your Black Pigment is ready!

Now, there is nothing easier than making black soap. Just add your pigment to your favorite base or soap from scratch!

It is wonderful to decorate black soap with stamps and mickey!

How to make such a stamp with your own hands - see here!

What does charcoal in soap give? In addition to its beautiful color, this soap has a light scrubbing effect. Charcoal remarkably adsorbs sebum and impurities, deeply cleanses pores, exfoliates dead cells of the epidermis. Activates the processes of cellular renewal. Mineral-rich charcoal normalizes the lipid balance of the skin by regulating the process of sebum secretion, helps to reduce the accumulation of water molecules, so that water easily penetrates into the deeper layers of the subcutaneous tissue. Thus, oxidative processes are prevented, which are named among the main reasons for skin aging.

Enjoy your soap making! Reprinting of the article is possible only with the written permission of the author, read more

Laying and pressing the resulting mass

With the help of a small bucket, the resulting mass is poured into all 4 press compartments, the jack with platforms is lowered down. It must be understood that the compartments must be filled to capacity. After the press has completed its task, the briquettes will be only about 5 cm high.

Press compartments are filled with a ready-made mass of cardboard and coal dust

By rotating the handle of the jack, the operator lowers the platforms down to the stop. All the squeezed water is drained through the gutter into a bucket - it will be subsequently used again.

The jack is designed in such a way as to neutralize human efforts. However, there comes a time when even he is not able to push the platforms further. Then you need to wait a couple of minutes until the remaining liquid drains away, and you can get almost ready-made briquettes. Why almost? Yes, they just need to dry thoroughly. While they are raw, they can be broken by dropping them from their height. But when the briquettes dry out, it becomes difficult to break them even with a hammer.

Using a jack, the mass is pressed into briquettes

Removing long burning briquettes from the press

After the jack is raised, the lid is opened from below under the compartments, and the briquettes are pushed out using a beater. In appearance, these are ordinary black cubes. In fact, a thoroughly dried briquette can turn into coal, which will provide heat 4-6 times longer than a birch log. And this despite the fact that the cost of manufacturing such fuel is practically not required - only a little water and electricity to operate the washing machine.

These are the neat briquettes that are obtained during the pressing process.

The resulting briquettes of long burning must be carefully folded and transferred to a dry place. There they will "reach" for another couple of days. But after that, the resulting fuel will give a large amount of heat to the person who made it. And it doesn't matter where they will be used, in a bathhouse or for heating a house.

Briquettes must be carefully folded and sent to dry

Method one

The easiest way is to load the dust into an already fired boiler. It should be noted that the fraction should be poured after the coal in the boiler has ignited. In the case when the fuel is just starting to ignite, a large amount of dust will simply extinguish the flame. A similar situation will occur if dust is poured into the boiler with burning fuel. It will smolder for a long time, but not enough heat will be generated.

The first disadvantage of this method is that it is impossible to accurately determine the optimal amount of dust to be loaded. In each specific case, it will depend on the size of the combustion chamber, the intensity of the flame, as well as the force of the air draft.

The second drawback is more serious. The fact is that the settled dust is safe, but at a certain concentration in the air, it becomes explosive. This should be taken into account by those who accumulate large volumes of coal dust.

Other methods and recipes for making long burning briquettes

In fact, anything that burns can serve as a raw material for such a fuel. But soaked cardboard will always be taken as a basis. In any case, it is also soaked and crushed in a washing machine (you can use a drill with a mixer attachment, but this will take too much time). The difference will be in the second component. Instead of coal, you can fill in a couple of buckets of chopped leaves. It is not worth filling the leaves with whole leaves - they will not be saturated with paper pulp, which means that the briquette will exfoliate and burn very quickly (and smoky).

A briquette made of cardboard with foliage is a pretty good fuel for a stove

Another option is mixing shredded cardboard with sawdust. Many argue that this "recipe" is even better than using coal dust. This is quite possible, because there will be almost 4 times more sawdust in the composition than coal. Otherwise, everything is done identically to the first option.

Endless Coal Dust

To get endless coal dust, we need:

1) Power supply; 2) Wires; 3) ME controller; 4) ME chest or ME storage; 5) ME storage cell; 6) ME glass cable; 7) Blast furnace; Crusher; 9) Capacity map; 10) Compressor; 11) Thermal centrifuge; 12) Electric thermogenerator; 13) ME export bus x4; 14) ME import bus x4; 15) Iron dust; 16) Empty capsule x6; 17) Coil

And so let's start, dear forum users:

We connect our ME controller to the Power Source (MFEH) from which, through the ME glass cable, we put our ME chest or ME storage (you can put it in a tight one) and put the ME storage cell in it:

Next, we put our devices: a blast furnace and behind it an electric thermogenerator (should touch each other with a red square), a crusher, a thermal centrifuge and a compressor. We supply them with energy:

Then we install the ME import bus (front) and ME export bus (top) and connect the ME with a cable to the ME controller:

Note: On one side of the Me controller, there can be no more than 8 channels, they simply will not work. The non-working channel lights up in white regardless of the color of the ME cable:

So we have installed all our devices, it remains to decompose the necessary components for their work. To operate the Blast Furnace, put the Coil in the Electric Thermal Generator:

Next, let's fill in our ME export tires. Let's start with the tire installed on the Blast Furnace. We put Iron Dust in the cell in the middle:

Then we put our Capacity Card in the slots of improvements and we have additional slots:

Put the Compressed Air Capsule in the left cell (obtained in the compressor from the Empty Capsule):

Then, in the tire of the Crusher, in the cell in the middle, put the Hardened Iron Ingot (obtained from Iron Dust in the Blast Furnace):

We put Slag in the tire of the Thermal Centrifuge (obtained in the Blast Furnace when quenching the Iron Dust):

In the Compressor tire, you guessed it, we put an Empty capsule:

Now we just need to put Iron Dust and Empty Capsules in the ME chest or ME storage (minimum x6 required) and wait.

This process can be accelerated by installing additional Blast Furnaces and Electric Thermogenerators, respectively. Here's an example:

It is important to remember that there should be no more than 8 channels on one side. For channels(ME cable)
did not connect to each other and did not occupy one channel, as here:
Cable Anchor can be used:

Or ME cables of different colors:

This concludes my guide.

Good luck and patience to everyone! Your name ExRio