<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> The Japanese have had incinerators, using supercompressed MSW for ocean fill which didn't work as the bales decompressed, plasma, dual stage combustors, pyrolyzers and a host of systems that were very expensive and could only be justified with the Japanese economics of disposal and power value. Thermoselect's only remaining operating system that I am aware of is in Japan. This pyrolysis/combustion system had serious problems of operating costs and emissions in Europe and were subjects of legal actions against the personnel for violating hazardous waste and emissions reporting. <BR>
There are plenty of "paper designs" that haven't been reduced to practice and if built, have serious problems. There are innumerable systems that have been proposed using the same tried and failed systems that appear to be fit for Clarendon, the insane asylum where Marquis de Sade wrote some of his most interesting works, the rule being the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. It is easy to spot "engineer" designed systems, they typically will use baghouses, cyclones, water sprays, venturi scrubbers, for gas cleaning, solid surface heat exchanging, sulfur or other contaminant removal units and a host of other systems that don't work or are too expensive when applied to the gasification field. <BR>
We have plenty of folks who are looking for gasification systems and some of the most popular ones have had their customers discuss with Thermogenics their problems of operations, typically difficulty with feeding, engine instable operation, very narrow range feed acceptablity, high carbon/ash yield, and in the case of MSW/RDF, having a small particle size for fluidized bed or plasma operation that isn't necessary. </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Sincerely,<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Sand" LANG="0" SIZE="2">Leland T. "Tom" Taylor<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">President<BR>
Thermogenics Inc.<BR>
701 Madison St. NE<BR>
Albuquerque, NM 87110<BR>
project site: 511 Ave. G<BR>
Lubbock, Texas 79401<BR>
505-463-8422<BR>
www.thermogenics.com</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><BR>
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