[Gasification] APL gasifiers at sawmill in Alaska

[Thomas Reed]

Dear David

It sounds like you have an ideal situation for wood power.  You've got the wood. As far as I know the APL gasifier has a good reputation. But they can tell you what specs they want to put on the wood fuel.

Good luck, keep me posted.

Tom Reed

Thomas B Reed 
280 Hardwick Rd
Barre, Ma 01005
508-353-7841

> On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:27 PM, David Coote <dccoote at mira.net> wrote:
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> On 23/09/2014 4:00 AM, gasification-request at lists.bioenergylists.org wrote:
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> Hi Tom,
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> Do you have any reports or similar available from the testing you mention below on the APL systems?
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> And even if the sawmill was using a lot more power than (20 + 10) kWe I would have thought that if the mill is out in the boonies somewhere it would be paying a lot/kWh for electricity. So even 30kWe would be useful. Especially since they have biomass available onsite. Was there another issue such as getting the chip characteristics correct?
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> Thanks
> 
> David
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:20:58 -0700
>> From: "Tom Miles"<tmiles at trmiles.com>
>> To: "'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'"
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>> Subject: Re: [Gasification] :  Borealis / Spanner RE2 CHP
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>> Thomas,
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>> We need to distinguish between small gasifiers intended for intermittent use or daily power only and gasifiers like the Spanner that are  intended for continuous generation. We bought 10 kWe and 20 kWe All Power Labs Power Pallets in 2011 and after testing them at a university we installed them at a sawmill in Alaska in 2012. (The mill hasn?t used them because they were too small for the mill loads and we haven?t gotten them relocated to a village where they could be useful for small laods.) APL has probably built a couple of hundred 20 kWe power pallets since then. The APL power pallet makes a nice clean gas at a low capital cost. Like the small Ankurs and their clones they are batch fed and are probably used a few hours per day.
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>> Tom
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