<div dir="ltr">Dear Tom and Lloyd,<div>thanks a lot for the inputs. We make charcoal from sugarcane leaves that are left behind after harvest of sugarcane. One hectare produces about 10 ton leaves, which in turn yield about 3 ton char. Our present kilns work in batches, and are slow. I am in the process of developing a kiln for continuous charring. We are also looking for uses of charcoal apart from cooking. Making activated charcoal is one of them, but even a wider use would be to use it as vehicular fuel. My daughter's name is Priyadarshini (Priya for short). </div>
<div>Yours</div><div> A.D.Karve</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Tom Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tombreed2010@gmail.com" target="_blank">tombreed2010@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Dear ADK</div><div><br></div><div>Gasoline is NOT an unstable mixture. It has been stored for millions of years in the ground, just waitin for we Humans to use it up in a century!</div>
<div><br></div><div>(Gasoline plus air is certainly an unstable mixture.) </div><div><br></div><div>Syngas is also unstable. The reaction</div><div><br></div><div> CO + 2H2O ===> CH2 + H2O </div><div><br></div><div>Is the basis of the Fischer-Tropsch process of making gasoline. An iron or cobalt catalyst is necessary. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards to your family and Priyadarshina(?)</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Reed</div><div><br><br>Thomas B Reed<span> </span><div><span>280 Hardwick Rd</span></div><div><span>Barre, MA 01005</span></div>
<div><span>508 353 7841</span></div></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Mar 7, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Lloyd Helferty <<a href="mailto:lhelferty@sympatico.ca" target="_blank">lhelferty@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br>
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<div>... Gasoline is "an unstable mixture"
too ~ just light a match anywhere near it and you will soon find
out. ;-)<br>
But in this case [where we wish to use it for energy production],
"unstable" is a <i>good</i> thing.<br>
<br>
P.S. I assume that your last question about using "coal gas in an
internal combustion engine" was rhetorical...<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<pre cols="72"> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist
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On 2012-10-24 6:13 AM, Anand Karve wrote:<br>
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<div>Tar, a problem when using wood gas in an internal
combustion engine, is automatically eliminated in the process
of making charcoal.Charring does not require any input of
external energy. Making coal gas from charcoal is also
relatively simple. I was told that CO + H2 was an unstable
mixture, but can one use freshly made coal gas in an internal
combustion engine? <br>
Yours</div>
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<div>A.D.Karve</div>
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