[Gasification] SPAM: Re: What became of the Waterwide gasifier / close combustion system ?

[Tom Miles]

James,

Waterwide (Waterwide International, Napier, New Zealand)  was a promising
system in the late 1970s through the 1990s. As a staged gasifier-combustor
it seemed to have may potential applications.    
It is pretty easy to find traces on the net:
1. By the 1990 there were 80 Waterwide gasifiers reportedly in use for crop
drying in Papua New Guinea. 
2. Recovered Energy Inc., Idaho, states that there were 40 built worldwide.
http://www.recoveredenergy.com/d_gasification.html 
3. Dr. Don Harrison of Verve Energy (Perth) reported (2007) to Avongro that
a Waterwide was used at the Narrogin IWP Demonstration Plant, AU.
http://avongro.com.au/Webpages/documents/DonHarrison-VerveEnergy.pdf The
Verve Energy Domain  www.verveenergy.com.au now forwards to Synergy
http://generation.synergy.net.au/
4. Grege Giese of Infinity Turbine posted a Youtube video (2008) promoting
the unit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twXCQIAzesg
http://www.infinityturbine.com/ORC/ORC_Waste_Heat_Turbine.html 
5. Guthrie Industries Malaysia made it under license (2003) where it was
used on rubber plantations. Guthrie now appears to be a consultancy rather
than a manufacturer. Now a subsidiary of Sime Darby Berhad The burner was
called a "Cycloburner"
6. Andrew Heggie (UK) blogged in 2003 that a friend had built a similar
staged combustor. Andrew moderates our improved cook stoves list..      
7. Renewable Energy Corporation (Waterwide) became Salinas Energy Limited,
Perth. Now heavily invested in oil.
http://www.australianminingcompanies.com/salinas-energy-limited.html It
looks like the shell of the company was bought and re-purposed. 
SALINAS ENERGY LIMITEDwww.salinasenergy.com (Domain for sale) 420 Roberts
Road SUBIACO, WA, 6008 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 8 9380 2111

So it looks like there aren't any current producers unless they just dropped
the Waterwide and Cycloburner names. 

Tom 





-----Original Message-----
From: Gasification [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On
Behalf Of Doug Williams
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:54 PM
To: gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: SPAM: Re: [Gasification] What became of the Waterwide gasifier /
close combustion system ?

Hi James,

Waterwide no longer operate out of New Zealand being sold off and re-branded
to some company in the USA. This has been discussed and the new company
identified on this forum, but I don't recall who or where they are located.
They were making big noises about waste feed lot disposal, so one might
conclude they just faded away as their original design only really worked on
woody biomass.

Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.



> Our system operates as a close coupled gasifier / combustor, vaguely along
the lines of the New Zealand based Waterwide system .. albeit with a
completely different approach to materials handling.
> 
> I was asked to follow up on the status of the waterwide systems, however
they seem to have gone quiet in about 2005 ?
> 
> Did Waterwide become something else or did the technology "retire" ?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James
> www.blackisgreen.net<http://www.blackisgreen.net>
> 
> 
> 


--
Doug Williams <Doug.Williams.nz at gmail.com>

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