[Gasification] reducing temp. of gasification

[Anand Karve]

Dear Henry,
 There are a lot of very simple ideas that need to be tested.  I am
currently working on increasing the efficiency of biogas digesters and
feel that it might be possible to reduce the size and the capital
expense of a biogas system. For instance, when I filled the digester
with charcoal, my system accepted three times the normal daily input
and produced three times as much gas.
How much electrical energy would be required by the electric arc to
produce producer gas? One can perhaps achieve the same temperature
with paraboloid mirrors and sunlight.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Energy7 <Energy7 at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> Hi All
> I Hope this is not a double post ( I posted this from my I phone earlier
> this morning and it has yet to show up )...
>
> Dear A.D. Karve
> My exact thought a while ago was to achieve this temperature with an
> internal electric arc furnace. The resulting gas can be put thru a catalyst.
> Just lately was reminded by a colleague of the efficiency of electro static
> precipitators and am presently researching their compatibility with producer
> gas.
> So : air tight electric arc furnace fed with co2 and preheated feed stock>
> catalyst>98%cyclone cleaning>precip> final water filter cooling >dryer > co2
> removal > o2 injection >ice>recycle hot co2 exhaust to preheat feed stock.
> Just an idea.. maybe too complicated? Please send me your ideas.
> HN
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Karve" <adkarve at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"
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> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:41 PM
> Subject: [Gasification] reducing temp. of gasification
>
>
>> Dear All,
>> one requires about 700C temperature for making producer gas. This is
>> generally achieved by burning the feedstock itself, for which one
>> introduces external air into the reactor. As a result, the producer
>> gas gets diluted by the nitrogen in the air. If the process can be
>> conducted in a closed vessel, which is heated from the outside, one
>> can get combustible gas without all the nitrogen, but heating the
>> feedstock inside a container cannot achieve the temperature that is
>> required for producing producer gas, so that what one gets is
>> primarily tar vapour. Has anyone thought of using a catalyst for
>> getting pyrolysis gas at say 300 C? It would help me greatly, if such
>> a catalyst were available.
>> Yours
>> A.D.Karve
>>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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