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Tom,<div>Did you see the fuel? I had understood, from a phone call with them, that the basic spec for their condo heating unit in Victoria was 3" minus but when I peered in the window there last year it looked like 1" or 3/4" minus.<div>Alex<br><div><br><br><div id="editor_signature"></div>On Monday 25/06/2012 at 10:53 am, Tom Miles wrote: <blockquote type="cite"><style>} {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} {font-family:Consolas; panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ .sw_message p.MsoNormal, .sw_message li.MsoNormal, {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} .sw_message a:link, {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} .sw_message a:visited, {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} .sw_message p.MsoPlainText, .sw_message li.MsoPlainText, {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} .sw_message p.MsoAcetate, .sw_message li.MsoAcetate, {mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} .sw_message p.MsoListParagraph, .sw_message li.MsoListParagraph, {mso-style-priority:34; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} {mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Plain Text"; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} {mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Balloon Text"; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} {mso-style-name:"Almindelig tekst Tegn"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:"Almindelig tekst"; font-family:Consolas;} .sw_message p.Almindeligtekst, .sw_message li.Almindeligtekst, {mso-style-name:"Almindelig tekst"; mso-style-link:"Almindelig tekst Tegn"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} {mso-style-name:"Markeringsbobletekst Tegn"; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-link:Markeringsbobletekst; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";} .sw_message p.Markeringsbobletekst, .sw_message li.Markeringsbobletekst, {mso-style-name:Markeringsbobletekst; mso-style-link:"Markeringsbobletekst Tegn"; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} {mso-style-type:personal; color:#1F497D;} {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} {mso-style-type:personal; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#993366;} {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} {page:WordSection1;} /* List Definitions */ {mso-list-id:984314893; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1945504642 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;} {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:roman-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:right; text-indent:-9.0pt;} {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:roman-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:right; text-indent:-9.0pt;} {mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in;} {mso-level-number-format:roman-lower; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:right; text-indent:-9.0pt;} {margin-bottom:0in;} {margin-bottom:0in;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Hi Tom,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>This looks very interesting project. Can you please share project report or any details of configuration? What have you been thinking for gas clean up and tar <span style="color:#1F497D">></span>elimination?<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I can’t say more than what they have presented to the public. Some of the details are “patent pending.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Look at slide 3 of their UBC project profile:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nexterra.ca/PDF/Project_Profile_UBC_20120326.pdf">http://www.nexterra.ca/PDF/Project_Profile_UBC_20120326.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You’ll see that they:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D"> take the low temperature gas from the gasifier, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">heat it with waste heat from cracked gas, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">burn the heated gas enough to reduce tars through partial oxidation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">cool the gas,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">filter it,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="_no_-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt Times New Roman"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">then they cool and condense the gas before going to the engine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">These are steps they have developed over the last several years for various industrial heat applications, and at 250 kWe at their pilot plant for 3,000 hours. They appear to have met their targets for gas cleaning. At the Pacific West Biomass Meeting in San Francisco in January they showed photos of their engine and oil inspection data for the 250 kWe genset after 2814 hours. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The engineer responsible for the operation of their engine at UBC has significant experience with GE Jenbacher engines for a variety of fuels and applications. He is absolutely confident about the cleanliness of the gas and the expected low maintenance on the engine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">“Seeing is believing” in this business so we will soon find out. The system just has to run, and run, and run. . . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>Tom <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote><br></div></div></div>
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