Charboss Demo Compliance Report

“The CharBoss is a prototype air curtain incinerator (ACI) under development through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between the FS and Air Burners, Inc (ABI), of Palm City, Florida. The CharBoss is an ABI Burn Boss Model T-24 which has been modified to recover biochar. The CharBoss was developed to provide a clean burning alternative to open burning small slash piles. The CharBoss is a BurnBoss with the addition of a moving grate in the bottom which removes the char during operation. A small quantity of ash accumulates beneath the prototype machine. Char is discharged by a mesh conveyor to a water quench tank. Wet char was extracted from the tank. The operation of this prototype was guided by the temperature at a thermocouple below the grate. Operation within temperatures which would not damage equipment provided a consistently clean operation. Figure 1 and 2 are pictures of the CharBoss.”