<div dir="ltr"> Helo<div> Jeff,Thomas ,Tom , Sander and other member</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> <span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15"> The good point Tom wrote the by product economic value from biochar is very important point . Also the heat recovery , resuse for heating and for cold food storage can be another possibility .Thus the economical objetive of low operational cots , and also the very low investments of low tech can be postive factor of steam microturbines generations ,as yet young not matured as that of ic engine .As energy , economics too matter.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-351d4770-b0b2-4048-65fb-9b79d8a93870"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ic engine or steam microturbines is not a matter of energy efficiency alone </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> A</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(71,71,71);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bout 70 rice husk based gasifiser and ic engine systems of 32 kW each have been installed in rural areas of the rural area of India , mainly in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, providing electricity needs of people in about 200 villages and hamlets. “Each system is capable of providing electricity to more than 200-250 households and other establishments for 5-6 hours daily in the evening with an average load of 25-30 kW,The rice husk based off-grid power plants which generate clean energy through biomass gasifier system for lighting the rural areas of the country which are devoid of grid, can also help to attend the cold storage of food products .Thus energy lost in low tech can provide economic apportunity for biochar fertilizar , even the c02 recoved via simple water absorption as liquid fertlizer ..Thus the low tech steam production need not be an dynamite explosion problems with , corrosion , as in olden time project design, steam can be easy viable soltion provider for complex energy problems in rural areas integrated to agroindustry and food processings with modern materials of old steam engines , with better steam uses</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(71,71,71);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Low tech ceramic biomass charcaolmaking kiln , charcoal gasifiers , </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Low tech ,simple older piston steam engine , low cost tubular boiler integrated steam piston engine was easily built , made posible to run in rural remote area of semi arid dry land using direct combustion of biomass , but this also failed .This can not be atributed be due to thermodynamic and eletrical energy point of view , but also the economic apportunity lost along with the wasted energy </span></p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Tom Miles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmiles@trmiles.com" target="_blank">tmiles@trmiles.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thomas,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In most cases that we have looked at you need about US$0.25/kWe for power and low cost fuel to make a gasifier CHP system work. In the case of the California gasifiers they are using waste fuels, generating at peak electricity rates (~$0.18/kWh), and selling biochar as a co-product at $0.75/lb. There is no market for recovered heat. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">It is very difficult to be a small power producer in the US because there is opposition from the utilities that buy the power. Small systems are usually charged very high fees (demand charges, connection fees) and offered low prices for the power. It often takes political persuasion to make a small plant into a commercial position. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In our Alaska projects high energy prices (~$0.65/kWh) provide an incentive to generate power but running a gasifier is a lot of work. Fuel oil might be expensive but it is convenient so there is less enthusiasm for it. Often the heat load is residential. Buildings and housing are small and disperse which means that you have to build an extensive district heating system to offset high fuel oil costs. There are always challenges. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Gasification is a new management activity for remote communities or small business. They should always start with a boiler or heat demand. The best place for a boiler or gasifier is where you are already handling biomass fuels and can fully benefit from combined heat, power and biochar. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tom <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Gasification [mailto:<a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Koch<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 01, 2013 2:56 PM</span></p><div><br><b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification<br></div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gasification] Small steam systems plus gasifiers for electricity<u></u><u></u><p>
</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tom <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">It is real pleasure to participate in a debate there are contributions like this.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">First Stirling – look here -- <a href="http://ing.dk/artikel/stirling-dk-om-vaekstfonden-solgte-et-ufaerdigt-produkt-158574" target="_blank">http://ing.dk/artikel/stirling-dk-om-vaekstfonden-solgte-et-ufaerdigt-produkt-158574</a> - run through Google translate. The company got over 30 million € and produced a total of less than 15000 hours operation – but employed an army of business developers – big headed incompetent greedy venture capitalist investors combined with too optimistc predictions for the performance of the technology.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Hjordkjær – heavily supported by public funds would never have worked In a competitive environment. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Our ORC poultry friend. Lets assume he operates 4000 hours pr year (probably optimistic) and produce (25 kWe*4000 hours) 100.000 Kwh. The plant lasts for 10 years and he spends 10 % of the investment in O&M and the interest on the investment Is 5 %. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If he invest 280.000 $ the yearly costs are (10%+10%+5%)*280.000 = 70.000 $ = 0,7 US$/kWh -- if he spends 1.000.000 the electricity price is 2,5 $/kWh. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">And there are potentially a risk that the “cooling agent” will escape to the atmosphere and be a very potent greenhouse gas<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Gasifiers – I think it a good idea to ask you selves why it might be a good idea to build a gasifier. I personally try to maintain the idea that it is my work – and thus I should earn money.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Here in Denmark there has been a change in the price structure in the energy market. Electricity is traded internationally – heat is more local. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In 2002 I started building a 2,3 MW (700 kWe) biomass gasifier. At that time the electricity price was (or at least we where dreaming about it would be) approx. 20-25 UScent/kWh. And the heat was much less. But as the electricity marked liberalized the price on electricity dropped to 10,5 UScent/kWh (0,6 DKK) and the heat became much more expensive.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The fundamentals of the economy of a biomass gasifier for CHP is that you bye a cheap fuel (eg wood) you produce 20-30 % expensive product – electricity - and 50-60 % cheap waste heat at a temperature level where it is saleable. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">But when I had to start the gasifier (and had spend 3 mio $) the prices structure had turned the business model upside down making it MUCH more expensive to produce heat by a well working gasifier (that does not exist as far as I know) than by a wood chip boiler. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">My conclusion was to stop developing risky technology and become a consultant for some years. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I am very interested to see the business plan that – According to the rules for getting public funds have to follow an application – was made to support the DTU-Weiss gasification project. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If anybody is interested there is a 2,3 MW 3 stage TK Energi gasifier for sale – if we can get 5000 $ more than scrap value we are happy . Never operated in this size – but 18.000 hours on a 400 KW pilot gasifier.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="http://noest.all2web.at/news/docs/1278_TK_Energi_ebs_DK.pdf" target="_blank">http://noest.all2web.at/news/docs/1278_TK_Energi_ebs_DK.pdf</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">My conclusion is that energy is too cheap to justify the CAPEX and OPEX of a gasification system unless it is VERY big. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">But it is still my hobby </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:rgb(31,73,125)">J</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">But for work I only work with large pressurized entrained flow gasifiers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thomas<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Gasification [<a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>] <b>På vegne af </b>Tom Miles<br>
<b>Se</b></span><b><span lang="DA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">ndt:</span></b><span lang="DA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> 1. december 2013 20:58<br>
<b>Til:</b> 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'<br><b>Emne:</b> Re: [Gasification] Small steam systems plus gasifiers for electricity<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thomas,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We have seen four or five biomass fired Stirling companies fail in the last 15 years. Successful Stirling engine companies supply the solar and recreational markets with very small systems and run mostly on LPG. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Stirling DK had the potential to fill an important niche. I liked their 9 kWe and 35 kWe units. It seems likely that they failed for business reasons as much as technical reasons. They were very slow to get organized and capitalize on the early experience of the DTU units. It is not clear why they charged so much.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We have a few small scale 50 kWe Organic Rankin cycle (ORC) generators in operation in the US. They seem to work very well for clean waste heat like exhaust from diesel gensets or biogas. One of my clients is testing one on diesel exhaust. <a href="http://electratherm.com/" target="_blank">http://electratherm.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">The owner of a poultry farm tells me that his ORC unit works fine but the heat exchanger from his poultry litter fired gasifier keeps plugging up. (We have been there before.) He gets 20-30 kWe from the $280,000 machine. The gasifier and ORC system cost $1 million. There seem to be conflicting reports about how much the system is actually run. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Steam systems suit district heat or industrial settings where much more steam is produced than needed for electricity otherwise load balancing is a problem. We have seen a 1 MWe wood boiler and steam turbine system fail at a prison due to the inability to balance heating and electrical loads. We saw many small turbines in the 250 kWe-1.5 MWe range installed in the wood industry in the 1970s and 1980s. It was common to see a sawmill generate higher pressure steam and use a 500 kWe backpressure turbine to reduce the pressure for distribution to a large number of lumber dry kilns. We have lost most of our sawmills in our region and electricity is cheap so we haven’t seen any new systems installed. I visited a 600 kWe Russian turbine at a district heating plant in Hjordkær</span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:windowtext">, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Denmark in about 2004. At the time they had been running since 1997 and were happy with it. They were serving about 700 homes and a chocolate factory. It seemed like a good match. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">In recent years we have seen a couple of small scale steam systems in the 250 kWe to 2 MWe range. One supplier will provide a 1 MWe modular fluidized bed steam system for $5 million. These need to be installed in industrial or utility setting for reasons cited by others. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We were disappointed last year not to find more gasifiers with demonstrated performance in the 2 MWe scale for the Alaska project. Nexterra was just installing their 2 MWe Jenbacher system at University of British Columbia. Babcock Volund gave us a budget price but didn’t think putting a unit in Alaska was interesting to them. Kawasaki Heavy Industries seems to have abandoned their program that was based on the CarboConsult downdraft gasifier. Their principal proponent of the system retired. Etc. And we didn’t want a gasifier with a wet cleaning system. We did receive budget proposals from some companies that had 150 kWe to 250 kWe gasifiers but that didn’t have field performance data to demonstrate their production with multiple units.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We still need to demonstrate more viable small scale systems with any technology. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tom <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Gasification [<a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Thomas Koch<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 01, 2013 9:42 AM</span></p><div><br><b>To:</b> Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification<br></div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Gasification] Small steam systems plus gasifiers for electricity<u></u><u></u><p>
</p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Jeff </span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Striling.dk just went banckrupt – and gasification gas is Dynamite.</span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thomas </span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">Fra:</span></b><span lang="DA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Gasification [<a href="mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">mailto:gasification-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>] <b>På vegne af </b>Jeff Davis<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 1. december 2013 18:37<br><b>Til:</b> Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification<br><b>Emne:</b> Re: [Gasification] Small steam systems plus gasifiers for electricity</span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA">I would have to agree with Steve. Steam is a lot like playing with dynamite. A gas producer and an off the shelf engine is the system to beat.<br>
<br>Too bad nobody is working on a Stirling engine for using excess heat.<br><br><br>Jeff</span></p><div><br><br><br><br>On 12/01/2013 11:29 AM, <a href="mailto:sabbadess@aol.com" target="_blank">sabbadess@aol.com</a> wrote:<u></u><u></u></div>
<p></p></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I found that small steam at the residential scale is just a bad idea.</span><span lang="DA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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