[Stoves] FW: Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?

Sat Apr 29 11:39:50 CDT 2017

Excuse me. Is Tom Reed no more? Is that the reason why the tribute is being
written. Can you please fill in the details.

Anil K rajvanshi

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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> I appreciate Dean Still’s tribute to Tom Reed in his latest newsletter
> below. Tom was our friend, client, mentor, and collaborator for more than
> 40 years. He inspired inventions, theses, and many companies. Most
> importantly he kept bringing us back to fundamentals. As Director of the US
> Department of Energy Alcohol Fuels Program (1979- ) at the Solar Energy
> Research Institute (now National Renewable Energy Laboratory) he introduced
> many of us to gasification. While there he developed his stratified
> downdraft gasifier concepts. (I remember years of skepticism about TLUD’s
> and whether they would ever be adopted.)
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> *From:* "Aprovecho Research Center" <info at aprovecho.org>
> *Subject:* *Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?*
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> *Dr. Tom Reed: The Father of Clean Burning?*
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> Well, Tom is certainly one of a small group including Paal Wendelbo and
> Ron Larson who started making “Tier 4” stoves in the 1980’s. I think of Tom
> when I light his wonderful forced draft TLUD camp stove which I do to
> demonstrate a simple ‘no smoke’ stove. Tom’s webpage says,”  In 1972 Tom
> Reed became concerned about the energy and fuel futures of the U.S. and
> began working on alternate fuels on the side while working at MIT in the
> field of solid state research. He was the first person to use alcohol
> blends during this period and when he wrote “Methanol – A Clean Fuel for
> the 21st century”, for Science magazine, it changed his career. In this
> article he said that for the short term methanol would be made from natural
> gas, but in the long term biomass could supply our needs forever.
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> Looking out of the ARC office windows, the rural Oregon road that curves
> past the campus is lined with 100 foot tall trees and the forest, even
> after decades of logging, is immense. Learning how to cleanly combust wood
> seems important here in the US as it does in other countries. Sustainably
> harvested energy is only amazing if it does no harm when burned and
> complete combustion opens a carbon neutral alternative that may be
> necessary in all sorts of applications.
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> How close is the complete combustion of biomass? Pellet stoves, industrial
> burners, and forced draft in general gets pretty close. Scrubbing the
> remaining emissions gets closer. In the cook stove world progress has been
> faster than I imagined as back yard R&D coupled with university analysis,
> supported by the DOE and EPA, inches science closer to the zero emission
> goal. As I envision the steps needed to complete the understanding leading
> to complete combustion, I’m thinking that reaching the goal is almost
> inevitable, with thanks to true believers like Dr. Tom Reed who helped to
> start the ball rolling.
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