[Stoves] [biochar] SouthWEST biochar project about liability biomass

[Gordon West]

Website coming soon (been saying that for quite a while…)

Gordon 




> On Jan 20, 2019, at 9:06 AM, 'Anderson, Paul' psanders at ilstu.edu [biochar] <biochar at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Subject changed to focus on biomass / biochar project by Gordon WEST in the SouthWEST.
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> Thank you, Gordon, for the project description.   Congratulations on your grant that will demonstrate so many important issues.
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> Unless someone else claims credit, I credit you (Gordon West) for the useful term   “liability biomass”  that denotes biomass that is even worse than excessive or surplus.  Liability biomass can dangerous or harmful.  Gordon’s example is about fire hazard biomass.   Another example can be invasive species, such as those that obstruct agriculture or deplete water supplies or are pests.
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> Do you have a website about the project or related aspects?   To see the technology being used, and to place reports?  Can you share (at your website) the project proposal or other ALREADY WRITTEN materials or photos?  (no need to write special for us if you keep us informed.).   
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> Looking forward to hearing about your progress, set-backs, and successes!!!
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> Doc / Dr TLUD / Paul S. Anderson, PhD
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> Exec. Dir. of Juntos Energy Solutions NFP
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> From: Gordon West <gordon.west at rtnewmexico.com <mailto:gordon.west at rtnewmexico.com>> 
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 9:34 AM
> To: Gordon gordon.west at rtnewmexico.com <mailto:gordon.west at rtnewmexico.com> <biochar at yahoogroups.com <mailto:biochar at yahoogroups.com>>
> Cc: Anderson, Paul <psanders at ilstu.edu <mailto:psanders at ilstu.edu>>; Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org <mailto:stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>>; 'Hans-Peter Schmidt' - Switzerland - Nepal <schmidt at ithaka-institut.org <mailto:schmidt at ithaka-institut.org>>
> Subject: Re: [biochar] Re: [Stoves] Biochar makers that are low emission, fire safe, and "look like" a stove, oven or heater
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> The Trollworks and Southwest Energy Integrators are beginning a USDA Forest Service grant funded pilot project that covers all of the issues being discussed here. I see a good deal of misconception about the forest issues, which is common even in the forestry field, due to competing interests, political prejudices, and limited funding - all combining to make practical solutions more difficult.
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> An outline of our pilot: It is taking place in a Southwestern US ecosystem dominated by pinyon, juniper, and Ponderosa pine forests, which are generally in need of thinning of biomass built up over a century of mismanagement via three primary factors; overgrazing (removal of fine fuels on the forest floor), natural fire suppression, and big tree logging. The idea that these forest floors need “raking”, and that was the cause of the disastrous Camp Fire is beyond laughable - those fuels are necessary for the kind of fire that has been missing for so long as a component of natural ecosystem management. What needs to be removed is the overstocking of small trees and brush. That costs money and proactive commitment, which are in short supply. Tax cuts are no replacement for thinning cuts…
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> A solution is to create products that can be made from such liability biomass, thereby giving it some value that can offset some of the costs of acquisition. Biochar and energy have the potential to do that better than any other product we have worked with. However, we have learned through decades of experience in the rural community context, that it is of critical importance to coordinate and optimize the whole process from forest planning through biomass acquisition, primary breakdown of materials, processing into char and storable char feedstock, utilization of the heat energy from the biogas, and finally establishment of local char markets - to make the system work. Working on any one of these elements in isolation from the system context will introduce costs and inefficiencies that can prevent success.
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> The pilot project is to take thinned material from the national forest to a modest collection and processing yard where it will be chipped. 
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> The chips will be loaded into a dryer/hopper where air heated from combusting pyrolysis gases will blow through the hopper drying the biomass. 
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> The dried chips will go to a hammermill to be sized for pelletizing.
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> About 30% of the pelletized material will be fed into the pyrolyzers and made into char and more heat for drying biomass.
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> The remaining 70% of pellets will be bagged and stored for use in the heating season.
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> Several pyrolyzer/boiler systems will be installed at a campus building at the site (a college), and the pellets will be used to provide building heat while making char.
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> The char will be sold locally or used by the college in STEM curricula, soil science, and R&D endeavors.
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> The pilot is expected to displace $50K/year in propane expense and net $20K in “profit” assuming a modest price for the char can be realized. 
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> To the greatest extent possible, existing businesses (forest thinners, haulers, wood products businesses, power line maintenance companies, etc) will be integrated into the community scaled system.
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> The system will be highly adaptable to existing conditions by virtue of being modular and easily scalable.
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> There will be no open burning.
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> Almost any biomass source can be accommodated.
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> We expect to begin production this Spring.
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> Gordon West
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> The Trollworks
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> Silver City, NM 88061
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