[Gasification] anaerobicc digester gas for IC engine.

Jeff Davis jeff0124 at velocity.net
Wed Jan 18 00:26:28 CST 2012


On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 22:41 -0600, phillip manske wrote:
> I'm always suspect of the claim that engines can run well on biogas.
> If that were the case we could cut methane to 99.99% with CO2 and that
> would solve the worlds energy needs just with CO2.  I'm sorry, I'm
> suspect.  IC engines run on fuel, not filler.

Right and with wood-gas we cut it with nitrogen...

>   Moisture is a classic no no.

Moisture is in the air that an engine breaths. Some people even add
water injection systems on their engines. Moisture in wood-gas, ouch.
The sulfur is a larger problem.

>   If you sell that kind of fuel you'd get arrested and sued.

I don't think Craig or AD were involved with Custody Transfer.

About 20 miles from here is a land fill that has been generating
electric with several large Cat engines fueled with land fill gas and
they have been chugging along for about ten years now. No idea how much
they clean the gas. 



Jeff





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