How To Make Your Own Charcoal？

Charcoal is the main burning material in rural or mountainous areas where the freedom of electricity is not realized. Charcoal is used for cooking, roasting and heating. It can also be used as activated carbon for sewage treatment and air purification. Charcoal is both the residual part of the charcoal is not fully combusted. Charcoal production principle is that he heats the wood through high temperature. After removing the moisture and volatile substances within the wood. The final product is charcoal. If you want to get high quality charcoal, you need to use a charcoal making machine. So, how do we make homemade charcoal?

 

Make Your Own Charcoal Method

Raw material selection: try to pick dry wood, such as: willow, pine, oak, camphor tree, etc.. If the charcoal is for barbecue use, choose cherry wood, apple wood, mahogany and so on. Barbecue charcoal used to grill food will have a light fruit wood flavor.

Cutting the material: cut the dried trees into wood of the same size and dimension. Generally the wood is cut into 30-50cm length pieces.

Charcoal making: Charcoal making is generally divided into charcoal kiln for personal charcoal making and commercial charcoal furnace.

• Commercial Charcoal Oven: Place the wood neatly into the charcoal oven, the tighter the better. Increase the carbonization temperature to 300-500℃. Ignition and combustion are carried out at the bottom of the charcoal furnace, and the combustible gases and moisture of the wood in the closed charcoal furnace are volatilized. Reactions such as deoxygenation dehydration devolatilization occur. The carbonization process generally takes 8-12 hours. The cooled carbonized charcoal will be cooled. Or soaking treatment. The impurities and ash inside the charcoal are cleaned. This improves the quality of the charcoal. The charcoal is then dried and put into natural drying or drying box for 1-2 days. The moisture content of the charcoal is controlled within 5%. The advantage of this charcoal making method is that the finished charcoal is of good quality and has a large production capacity. The disadvantage is that the cost of fuel is too high, not suitable for family and personal use.
• Personal Charcoal Kiln: According to charcoal is the raw material of wood that does not burn well. Find an open fireproof place and arrange the wood vertically so that the wood can burn fully. Place the wood in a conical pile and cover it with moist soil, keeping only a few vents at the bottom to keep an eye on the wood burning. Leave a pilot hole at the top. A word of caution: always make charcoal by starting the fire at the top, not the bottom. If you start the fire at the bottom, the wood will burn to nothing. It is the top pilot that will cause the flames to burn in several directions depending on the wind gust like below. When the flame burns to the bottom windward position, as observed from the windward side below, all holes are sealed with wet mud, creating an airtight environment inside, and the oxygen-free environment causes the open fire in the charcoal kiln to go out. The wood begins to undergo carbonization reaction. Eventually charcoal is formed.

Cooling: Individuals making charcoal, because the production is not large, the kiln can be peeled open at intervals of 12 hours to move out the charcoal that has been molded.

 

The advantage of homemade charcoal is that it is easy to operate, the disadvantage is that charcoal because of the technology and combustion sequential reasons. The carbonization process produces some losses. Wood is burned directly to ash instead of charcoal. The carbonization reaction of the wood in the periphery has not been fully carried out, and the carbonization is not complete. Therefore, want to get high quality charcoal. We still recommend using a charcoal making machine to make it. If you want to know more detailed requirements for making charcoal. You are welcome to contact.

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