process and installation for the production of charcoal by pyrolysis of wood products or plant biomass in general

摘要

A method and apparatus for producing wood charcoal by pyrolysis of wood products or vegetable biomasses in general, the method including the steps of: loading the wood products, or vegetable biomasses in general, onto transport trolleys; introducing the trolleys, which contain the wood products, in a treatment tunnel wherein a pyrolysis chamber is formed; indirectly heating the wood products inside the pyrolysis chamber until pyrolysis of the wood products is obtained, with continuous extraction, from the pyrolysis chamber, of the gas generated by the pyrolysis process; and extracting the trolleys from the tunnel to unload from the trolleys the charcoal that constitutes the residue of the pyrolysis of the wood products.