[Gasification] Small scale gasifiers in Alaska

[David Coote]

Hi Tom,

This is great stuff!

Is monitoring and reporting performance part of the project? I would be 
very interested to see details on how the system performs in operational 
use in Alaska after, say, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months

Thanks

David

On 21/10/2012 6:00 AM, gasification-request at lists.bioenergylists.org wrote:
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>     1. Can small wood-gas systems lower rural energy costs? (Tom Miles)
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> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:35:04 -0700
> From: "Tom Miles"<tmiles at trmiles.com>
> To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"
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> Subject: [Gasification] Can small wood-gas systems lower rural energy
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> Jim Mason and mill personnel installed two All Power Labs Power Pallets - 10
> kWe and 20 kWe - this week at a sawmill in SE Alaska as part of a project
> for Sealaska Corporation to demonstrate small scale power generation. Owner
> Wes Tyler and Thomas Deerfield chipped the fuel while I did the arm waving
> and entertained visiting locals. We ran the 20 kWe unit on wet (35% MC)
> spruce chips. It ran very well. We did collect a lot of condensate in the
> final trap before the engine but there was no sign of tars or sticky char in
> the filters.
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> See the Coast Alaska news story at
> http://www.krbd.org/2012/10/19/can-small-wood-gas-systems-lower-rural-energy
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> Mill personnel will run the gasifiers this winter. If all goes well we may
> install one of the gasifier at the Icy Point resort where cruise ships visit
> an old cannery. The resort is owned by the Hoonah tribal corporation.
> Businesses in Hoonah pay up to $0.67/kWe without subsidy so fuel/power is a
> substantial cost. Locals are looking for opportunities to generate power and
> heat greenhouses to grow fresh vegetables.
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> Andy Soria, Professor of Wood Chemistry and Applied Environmental Science
> and Technology at University of Alaska has had GEKS's for a couple of years
> and Bernie Karl in Fairbanks has run a small GEK with an engine but these
> are the first gasifier-gensets to be installed in an Alaskan village since
> the Alaska Village Electric Coop project by Marenco (Joe Marks) in the early
> 1980s.
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