[Gasification] Straw Fueled CHP

Doug doug.williams.nz at gmail.com
Mon Dec 25 12:36:47 CST 2017


Hi Gasification Colleagues,

As each year passes, watching requests for proven gasification 
technology, is like watching the movie "National Ground Hogs Day" where 
the main character relives the same day over and over gradually 
correcting his mistakes until he gets the outcome he targets (the girl 
of course).  There is enough collective experience already in the World 
to solve just about every permutation of waste biomass use, except how 
to handle it's huge volume in the place it where it grows, and for a 
price which must equate to practically nothing.

Yes we can as individuals make things that work for our own edification, 
but this does not translate to making it work on the scales required by 
those just discovering biomass conversion.  Far from being a cornucopia 
( a Horn of Plenty) it's more the other way of working like a funnel, in 
which you have to literally stuff bulk $$$ first, then all the "free 
waste" that must reach the funnel without cost. But, we don't really 
give up do we?

It's always good to find and refer to what appear to be examples of 
proven technologies, but few can really meet their own predictions of 
reliability when put to scrutiny. Take a hard look before you part with 
your $$$.

This year, I rebuilt my Pioneer Class gasifier down the back shed while 
I can still see to weld, and visited the CalForests Biochar maker 
project in California in July to commission a hot pyrolysis gas suction 
system. We are still trying to stuff a forest into a funnel, so in an 
eye blink things can go crazy, a single raw chip is failure!  I will try 
to get the photo file up on the Fluidyne Archive albeit six months late 
shortly.

On the side, I still study and ponder what secrets still remain as 
applications for these differing chars, and continue my other life  as a 
therapist, researching pain.

Best Wishes to you all for the Festive Season.

Doug Williams,

Fluidyne.




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