<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span>Hi, </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; "><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">These projects looks great, but I'm curious, if you can improve reliability and efficiency just by lowering the moisture content in the feed, then how come these types of systems don't incorporate a hopper design that would help dry feed stock? Such as by recapturing the heat from the exhaust or the heat from the engine's radiator.</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Thanks</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">Eric </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Miles <tmiles@trmiles.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of biomass pyrolysis
and gasification <gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 20 October 2012 5:35 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Gasification] Can small wood-gas systems lower rural energy costs?<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1380596312"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1380596312WordSection1"><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal">Jim Mason and mill personnel installed two All Power Labs Power Pallets – 10 kWe and 20 kWe - this week at a sawmill in SE Alaska as part of a project for Sealaska Corporation to demonstrate small scale power generation. Owner Wes Tyler and Thomas Deerfield chipped the fuel while I did the arm waving and entertained visiting locals. We ran the 20 kWe unit on wet (35% MC) spruce chips. It ran very well. We did collect a lot of condensate in the final trap before the engine but there was no sign of tars or sticky char in the filters. </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal">See the Coast Alaska news story at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.krbd.org/2012/10/19/can-small-wood-gas-systems-lower-rural-energy-costs/">http://www.krbd.org/2012/10/19/can-small-wood-gas-systems-lower-rural-energy-costs/</a> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal">Mill personnel will run the gasifiers this winter. If all goes well we may install one of the gasifier at the Icy Point resort where cruise ships visit an old cannery. The resort is owned by the Hoonah tribal corporation. Businesses in Hoonah pay up to $0.67/kWe without subsidy so fuel/power is a substantial cost. Locals are looking for opportunities to generate power and heat greenhouses to grow fresh vegetables. </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal">Andy Soria, Professor of Wood Chemistry and Applied Environmental Science and Technology at University of Alaska has had GEKS’s for a couple of years and Bernie Karl in
Fairbanks has run a small GEK with an engine but these are the first gasifier-gensets to be installed in an Alaskan village since the Alaska Village Electric Coop project by Marenco (Joe Marks) in the early 1980s. </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal">Tom Miles</div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1380596312MsoNormal"> </div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gasification mailing list<br><br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br><a ymailto="mailto:Gasification@bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:Gasification@bioenergylists.org">Gasification@bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br><a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org"
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