[Gasification] Tom Reed Recovering from Fall

[Greg Manning]

Greetings Tom, (and list)

Tom, It's great to hear that the fall was not really bad, even though still
an inconvenence though.

I have one question/answer I would like to pose, and that is....

Every pelletized product I've gasified, all have done the same thing, they
expand in heat/moisture of the hearth.

 One solution I've come up with (even though it lowers the total output of
the gasifier) is using parasitic power to run a torification process,
instead of a partial combustion process.

All in all, when one looks to both methods of gas evolution, the later is a
cleaner method (torification). With the losses of available mass for gas,
when partial combustion is applied, the parasitic power difference, in
torification is much less, (because of more mass being torified, instead of
combusted).

Torification is a much easier method of controlling the hearth's internal
temperature, IMO, and handles pelleted products much better, as it gets the
moisture level to a level that does not expand the pellets as much (air
moisture ??).


Greg Manning



On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Tombreed <tombreed2010 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mark and all
>
> Thanks so much for your warming words, twice as warming, here in the
> Fairview Recovery unit of the Worcester Memorial Hospital system.   I fell
> down 13 stairs, bound to be unlucky, BUT no permanent damage!  I'm
> recuperating in my daugher's guest suite, dreaming about a Fall cruise!
> <><><>
> Here's a puzzle for all to chew on.  "Gasification" of wood implies the
> complete conversion of both the cellulose (80%) and lignin (20%)
> components.  The tars from the lignin are basically aromatic due to the
> aromatic structure of lignin, and may be the principle component of the
> smoke and tar.
>
> The primary fuel is then the cellulose smoke, various volatiles that burn
> cleanly, leaving no solids.
> My expert Friend, Mike Antal, Coral Prof. At the University of Hawaii,
> could give chapter and verse on the nature of the volatiles from burning
> celluloses.
>
> Paper and high cellulose paper products could be a much cleaner biomass fuel
> and are easily pelletized.  Wood pellets have become a major fuel source in
> the past decade.  Is it possible that paper pellets could be even more
> important and cleaner and cheaper?
>
> Best wishes to all of you from Tom Reed, back from a bad fall.
>
> Tom Reed
>
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> Thomas B Reed
>
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> On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:42 AM, "Mark Ludlow" <mark at ludlow.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Dr. Reed,****
>
> ** **
>
> You are a mainstay and inspiration to us all. How frustrating it must have
> been to feel yourself fall! There’s really no reason why the Universe chose
> you. It certainly was not Karma.****
>
> ** **
>
> I know you must feel miserable. But I hope that you know that many people
> love and admire you and are probably wishing, as I wish, that they could
> have taken that fall for you.****
>
> ** **
>
> Best wishes,****
>
> Mark  ****
>
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