[Gasification] Getting both heat and char .....

[Doug]

Hi Rolf,

The Shasta 2 charmaker is still in the development phase although it has 
completed it's conceptual design testing satisfactorily . You are only 
seeing a naturally aspirated flare stack, not a Cyclomix burner that has 
the pressurized air (heated or other wise) added before combustion. The 
technical challenges are as Art stated, very hot gas or air will burn 
most known steels, although using Austentic high nickel stainless does 
work in some places. Making char in any commercially viable volume and 
using the pyrolysis gas again for commercial application, required 
moving parts that hate the conversion of biomass into gas of any sort. 
Possibly there are other researchers that have solved some of these 
issues, and I hope in the coming weeks to find lost colleagues to learn 
of their progress.

While the long term view of your project has to have commercial 
outcomes, it's initiation without $$$ can only be very low tech using 
your gasifier to establish proof of concept. To that end, we need some 
input, from this lady who has the need for the firing technology. How do 
we do that, can we use SKYPE for a discussion? I also have suggestions 
to finance the second phase after the first trials, and get extra hands 
involved to get the work done.

Doug.


Doug Williams.


On 06/01/17 12:53, Energies Naturals C.B. wrote:
> Many thanks to Doug, Paul and others.
>
> Sorry, I had a busy day away from home and could not check my mails.
>
> The Shasta 2 carbonizer is a very interesting design.
> How could it be optimized to make high temperature "flare" gas?
>
> Recover heat from the char cooling to preheat the combustion air?
>
> Rolf
>
>