<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Re size of motor in dryer, if it is used for classifying materials it sounds about right. Your much better off using a larger motor and having reserve capacity than operating at the full limits of the motor. If it simply a dryer, do as James suggests and rotate it twice a minute or so. </span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, January 31, 2014 2:00 PM, "gasification-request@lists.bioenergylists.org"
<gasification-request@lists.bioenergylists.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">----- Forwarded Message -----<br><br>Send Gasification mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org">gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:gasification-request@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:gasification-request@lists.bioenergylists.org">gasification-request@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>You can reach the person managing
the list at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:gasification-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:gasification-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org">gasification-owner@lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Gasification digest..."<br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Size of blower and tumbler required to (James Joyce)<br>Yep I agree, for low temperature drying anything more than 1 rpm in a drum drier is wasted effort and wasted electricity. It is hard to gear down to 1 rpm, but a few minutes an hour via a timer switch will achieve a similar outcome. <br><br>James<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:10:58 -0800<br>From: "Luke Gardner" <<a ymailto="mailto:lgardner@wwest.net" href="mailto:lgardner@wwest.net">lgardner@wwest.net</a>><br>To:
"Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org" href="mailto:gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org">gasification@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Gasification] Size of blower and tumbler required to<br> drychip in asolar kiln<br><br>Pete,<br>I built a hand crank model<br>16" diameter and about 7' long with varied screens and catch bins below for sorting originally, only to find out if I turned it less... like one rev whenever I passed by it became a great dryer as well.<br>it was a scale model of what I will build when I have both the time and space... they will come.<br>I will scale to my feed rate of my gasifier.<br>what do you figure you have into motorizing and blowing/ pound or ton of chips, looking for a Kw/ton figure to bring chips from green to dry... on an average day at roughly 30rpms, with your
electricly induced ambient breeze?<br>not looking for cost of equipment, but the cost to run it/ton?<br>if you don't mind<br>Luke Gardner<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Pete & Sheri<br>Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:43 PM<br>To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'<br>Subject: Re: [Gasification] Size of blower and tumbler required to drychip in asolar kiln<br><br>Motor size???<br>I don't know either, but here's a place to start:<br><br>We have lots of used grain cleaners here in the Midwest USA. Almost every implement dealer has them. Go take a look At any farm implement dealer's stock.<br><br>I bought two of them last year (one in partnership) and converted them to sorting, not drying, wood chips.<br>One of them has a 36" diameter "drum" that is 72" long and it runs at about<br>44 rpms. It came with a one hp 1725 capacitor start general purpose motor.<br>I think that was more than needed.<br>The other
one has a drum is 24" in diameter and 60 inches long. Personally, I think its one hp capacitor start motor is overkill too. It originally ran at about 30 rpm, but I slowed it to 22 rpm. Still overkill, I think.<br>.....<br><br><br><br><br><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" target="_blank">http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org</a><br><br>for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site:<br><a href="http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/"
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