DIY Hemp Decorticator

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By Pierre Amadieu
Verona, 6th IHBA Symposium
 What’s more to invent ?
• The wheel ? Once again ?
• collecting and re-using : patchwork attitude
• Doing much more with much more less
• Festival de fibres en musique Montjean sur Loire http://defibresenmusique.fr/
 What is this DIY HD ?
• Low tech and low cost device
• Blue print open source available
• To set any hemp project quickly thriving
• Festival de fibres en musique Montjean sur Loire http://defibresenmusique.fr/
Where is it coming from ?
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• 10, 100, 1000’s local hemp value chains
• World Hemp Quarter by COP21 in Paris
 Open source Ecology ?
• Promoting and experimenting OSHW
• A set of 50 farm tools
• Open source Ecologie France
• Creative commons licence CC-BY-SA 4.0
DIY HD Basics : easy revolutions
• Roll and unroll : the easier way
• Roller breakers ahead
• Output : winding fibres in reels
– Round bales or sheaves
– Retted or not
– Shivs for building needs
– Fibres for local insulation & industrial standard
– Any by product valued or recycled
 How is it looking like ?
• 12 m long, 2 m wide, 2,5 m hight, 8 tons
• + 6 m for shives and air processing
• About 50 kW/h
 About DIY HD capacities
• Hemp straw imput : 0,5 ton per hour
• Drived by 2 operators
• 100 to 200 ha processed/year/work shift
 Designed as a plateform
• 1rst step : decorticating hemp for local
insulation and building needs
• 2d step : technical or textile fibres
 How much will it cost ?
• From 100 to 250 k€
• Depending on your skills and autonomy
and on second hand opportunities
• And much more …
 How to get one ?
• Freely : open source diffusion
• 100 % Automony…
• … or some help requested :
• Benefit of dedicated and usefull services :
– How to build, to launch, to operate, to manage
– Knolwledge and skills transfer
 Opportunities beyond
• Set your local hemp entreprise and local
value chain quickly thriving
• Become a regional operator :
– Refining textile and technical hemp
– Training and accompanying new operators
• DIY HD is designed as a platform
– Easy to implement new tools for further
processes and new markets
– To be developed by the community of users
 Timetable
• By the end of 2017 :
– Blue print available
– First operating DIY HD
– Training courses and knowledge transfer
• From 2017
– Textile process and refining line designing
and optimizing
 Conclusion and thanks
• Urgent needs to store CO2 and to relocate
healthy and fair business
• DIYHD n°1 to be sold then 10,100, 1000…
to come