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Hi Gasification Colleagues,<br>
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While we can "collectively" offer <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Mr
Feinstein just about everything for his project from a commercial
perspective, his project description clearly states that they wish
to develop cheap low cost solutions to become locally
manufactured. These are the things that bother me regarding their
concept objectives.<br>
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1. If he imports a Intern Engineer for $500 a month, just how much
real value could this person offer for such a short term contract?
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2. Making charcoal, no problem, but easiest and cheapest option
reduces waste heat collection or close coupled combustion for
driers.<br>
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3. Quality of charcoal for power generation is OK for the cheapest
char making option, but this is not the quality found in activated
carbon.<br>
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4. Steam is required for blanching the product, so a low cost
boiler is a necessity, along with water treatment, the main factor
of boiler efficiency, even cheap ones.<br>
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5. Steam blanching has an issue of toxic waste water, and in a
rural location, ground water will become contaminated unless
treated. Do they know about this and who will monitor the ground
water?<br>
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6. Maybe activated carbon can be used to clean up the waste
stream, but it would be purchased, as a cheap char option does not
create the type of temperature or steam pressures to make it.<br>
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7. No indicative amount of power generation is stated, but one
might think it would be at least 15-20 kWe given that motor
start-ups on oil extruder's etc, need power generation reserves.
Cheap generators can be an expensive low cost solution, especially
if any computers become part of the process. <br>
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Start-up rural projects like this have a history which tell us not
to reinvent the wheel yet once again. The easiest way to do this
is to offer unpaid enthusiastic help to the selected engineering
graduate, and this open Gasification list offers a good way to do
it., So who is in, what can you offer Mr Feinsteins team? <br>
<br>
Doug Williams,<br>
Fluidyne.<br>
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