[Stoves] Fwd: Moisture Paper

Otto Formo terra-matricula at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 10 01:36:07 CDT 2014


Thanks for Your confirmation, Nolbert.
 
I have some manuals and materials from an introduction in Unganda some years ago, how to produce woodchips in a low Tech manner, but quite efficient.
 
Keep me updated on the progress to produce woodchips.
 
Otto 
 
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:12:38 +0300
From: muhumuza at gmail.com
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: Re: [Stoves] Fwd: Moisture Paper

Hey,
There is a guy making wood chips here. Yes, they are perfect for our Troika stoves here in Uganda. Really ideal fuels
Nolbert.


2014-07-08 8:26 GMT+03:00 Otto Formo <terra-matricula at hotmail.com>:




Thanks for the usefull information about fuel and moisture content.
Paal always said;
Stoves and fuel are linked together, VERY much.
 
According to my brief and imediate understanding of the attachment, proper dried woodchips would be the most suitable fuel for a ND gasifier and cater for most situations, like cooking and biochar production.

 
The pellet plant are in the early stage of operation, and a woodchipper will be operationel in Zambia, next month - GOOD.
 
Enjoy the summer.
 
Otto
 
From: rongretlarson at comcast.net

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 12:45:06 -0600
To: stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Stoves] Fwd: Moisture Paper

List     (cc Yibo)

	The attachment should be of interest to quite a few on this list.   I hope you will react to my following comments  back to Yibo/Jackie - about to start a new graduate school stint in the USA.   Yibo and I interacted in Beijing last year for a few days - but this is the first time I have had to look closely at all the results.  I now consider this issue of moisture content to be more important than I did earlier.


Yibo:	Sorry for the delay in responding.  Been busy.
	I was surprised with some of the results.  I believe that at least some of the results are due to equations 1 and 2 being different from many.  Not wrong, just different. I would like to see graphs, where the MC is NOT subtracted in the denominator.   I don’t really like the subtraction of the char energy either in Eq. 2 - but it is much preferred over Eq. 1.   My preference is to report separately on the three quantities separately - for energy to the pot (desired), to water evaporation from the fuel (no value to anyone), and to energy in the char (valuable to some of us).

	As shown, it appears in Figures 3a and 3b to be preferable to have high MC.  This is counter-intuitive - and I believe is due to the form of Eqs. 1 and 2.  If you would be so good as to forward the raw data and your Excel spread sheet,  I am anxious to see how different efficiency definitions change the result.  Also,  I need to check how you calculated the energy effect of MC, and to know what LHV you used for your char.

	It is less obvious to me how to explain the results in Fig. 5.  I think it is because the power levels were significantly modified by MC.  Many have reported emissions increases at higher power levels (more primary air).   It would be interesting to see the same curves with similar power levels.  That is not possible without new testing.

	Figure 4 was not a surprise for the wet weight basis, but I am surprised that there was no drop off in the char weight on a dry basis  (cross-hatched).  Again, I think there is a power level (airflow) issue here.  That will take a lot of work - I presume you had no control over either primary or secondary air?

	Congratulations on getting this paper published.  It is important.
	I strongly support your main conclusion on the need for testing at different (perhaps standard?) MC levels.

Ron




Begin forwarded message:
From: "Huangfu Yibo" <hfyblx at 163.com>

Subject: Re:Re: Moisture Paper
Date: July 1, 2014 at 8:07:18 PM MDT

To: "Ronal W. Larson" <rongretlarson at comcast.net>



Dear Professor,
I booked the ticket on Aug. 11th. from Beijing to Pullman. I have been the new ARC lab for one time, which is quite a big place far away from the town, near a small river and in the forest. 

Of course you can send it to the stovelist, and I am looking forward to the comments, too ^_^


Best wishes
Yibo

At 2014-07-02 09:19:42, "Ronal W. Larson" <rongretlarson at comcast.net> wrote:

 Yibo  - see below	<snip non pertinent exchanges>

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