Process of carbonizing wood to produce wood charcoal

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A process of carbonizing wood in a moving bed shaft reactor, which is flown through by hot rinse gas and is charged with the wood at the top and wood charcoal is withdrawn from the lower portion of the reactor. An exhaust gas which contains gases and vapors produced by the carbonization is withdrawn from the top end of the shaft reactor and is directly fed to a combustion chamber and combustion gases from the combustion chamber are used as hot rinse gas in the shaft reactor. The combustion chamber is separated from the shaft reactor and is provided with a first and a second section, the exhaust gas is combusted in the first section of the combustion chamber with air at an …