[Gasification] Can small wood-gas systems lower rural energy costs?

[jim mason]

here finally is a gallery of photos from the trip:
http://gekgasifier.com/wpgallery/sealaska-project/  the hoonah area is
spectacularly beautiful, as you can see, despite gasifiers cluttering up
the scenery.

thanks to tom miles for putting this project together, and thomas deerfield
for long suffering faith that a small gasifier might in fact someday work
well enough to support remote chp in alaska.

we had a successful first step this month, and more to follow soon.

j






On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:35 PM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> 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-costs/
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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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> Tom Miles****
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