[Stoves] Wood chips for syngas energy

[Alex English]

Crispin,
Yes they were supposed to be the beacon for biomass energy. Nexterra is 
often a featured presenter at Biomass energy conferences. I stopped by 
their Dockside Green heating plant in Victoria in June.  Johnson 
Controls seemed like a big player that could do thing right. 98 day out 
of 534 providing steam/heat, ouch.

It would be nice to see a complete "aircrash investigation" style report 
on all the problems that goes beyond journalism. I could write one for 
our wood chip fired heating plant. There are lots of things that do go 
awry, but we've been online producing all our heat for over 99% of the 
time. Then again we could blow up tomorrow:) This summer our fuel pile 
was struck by lightning.
Stuff happens but there is a strong tendency not to talk openly about it.

"officials touted plant as the cat's meow" When my cat meows its usually 
be cause she is stuck up a tree.

Alex

On 10/10/2011 12:40 AM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott wrote:
>
> Dear Gas-Friendly Friends
>
> Not quite the result we were expecting:
>
> 1.)The technology: 
> http://www.palletenterprise.com/articledatabase/view.asp?articleID=2841
>
> 2.)The problems: 
> http://www.thestate.com/2011/10/09/2001993/uscs-biomass-plant-debacle.html#ixzz1aKeVXkUU
>
> 3.)The discussion: 
> http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/09/green-fail-foia-shows-dangerous-university-biomass-power-plant-frought-with-problems-closures-explosion/#more-48955 
>
>
> It is a wood gasifier with three chambers. It is not a pyrolyser. It 
> produces ash, not char.
>
> Regards
>
> Crispin
>
>
>
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