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Posted by dpb on August 15, 2006, 1:31 pm
Harry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my basement:
> How do you construct a coal bin for about 3 tons of coal?
Stoutly??? :)
> Would 5'x10' and 4' high be largre enough?
Bituminous coal has a bulk density somewhere in the range of 50
lb/cu-ft so 6000 lb/50 lb/cu-ft --> 120 cu-ft. The volume would be
adequate.
> How would you construct the "door/trap" from where i
> would be shoveling the coal?- of course i want to shovel
> from the smooth, basement floor.
>From here on, you're on your own. If you're planning on bulk coal in a
basement, that's something I wouldn't want to deal with--it's dirty,
potentially explosive/combustible, the burning of it is also dirty in
both soot/smoke and corrosive gases, etc., etc., etc.
During a period when I was working for a manufacturer of online ash
analyzers at mines and prep plants my junior-high-age daughter did a
science project on various coals, measuring caloric content and so on
of small samples I brought home from various mines. We set up the
apparatus in the driveway in front of the house and w/o thinking left
the garage door open. From no more than a dozen test firings of a few
ounces each, the smoke caused rusting of every unpainted surface in the
garage--table saw/jointer/planer tables, drill press column, etc.
These were E KY, and W WVA moderately high-sulfur bituminous
coals--probably not too much different than what you'll get from local
coals there. I personally, would leave the coal to the power stations
and other large boilers that have the facilities to handle and burn it.
50 years after the coal-furnace was removed from the house there was
_still_ coal dust around when the folks remodeled and finally covered
all the walls and floors. The house was initially built w/ an enclosed
room w/ poured concrete walls and a metal-clad door and ceiling as the
"coal room" and a delivery chute through a small window. It had been
emptied by the time I recall and I don't know how it was dispensed--I
think simply w/ a bucket and small shovel to the boiler--it doesn't
take a tremendous volume for a household boiler--it's not like firing a
locomotive.
> Who from the Corry/Erie, pa, area delivers coal?
No idea, but I'd think Yellow Pages would be a start.
What do you have to burn it in, first?
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