[Gasification] Small scale gasifiers in Alaska

[Tom Miles]

David,

I expect very little to happen over winter. The mill is busy getting the
last of the logging in before the snow sets in. Much of their crew will go
South for the Winter. The rest will be making lumber when they are not
digging snow off the road. We may have a caretaker use the 10 kWe over
winter. We'll see them building some necessary structure and equipment at go
at it in the Spring.

Tom 

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Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Gasification] Small scale gasifiers in Alaska

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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> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:35:04 -0700
> From: "Tom Miles"<tmiles at trmiles.com>
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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-
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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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