Manal Feddah^(1)*

(1). Department of  Forestry and Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria.

(*Corresponding author: Manal Feddah, Email:feddamanal82@gmail.com).

Received:16/01/2024          Accepted: 9/04/2024

Abstract

The study was conducted in 2023 with the aim of comparing some of the apparent and physical characteristics of ordinary oak charcoal, Quercus calliprinos webb, produced by the traditional (dusty) and double-barrel coking methods at the sites of Al-Zafarana (Tartous) and Al-Kars (Lattakia). The results showed that the yield of coking using the double-barrel method is 6% higher compared to the Traditional method. The time required to obtain charcoal using the double barrel method was much less than the time required to charcoal the same quantity using the traditional method, and this result is of great value (3 hours compared to 18 hours for charring the same amount using the traditional method). Also, the coal produced by the double barrel method has a lower specific heat than the coal produced by the traditional method, and therefore its quality is higher because there is an inverse proportion between the quality of the coal and the specific heat value.

Keywords: charring, dusty, double barrels, coking process, ordinary oak charcoal.

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