<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Yes producer gas is good for big "very ventilated" kitchens. I feel it can be used to produce steam and then most of the cooking can be done via steam cooking. This will also reduce the need for continuously changing turn down ratio which has the propensity of producing unclean burn and more CO.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Anil</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)<br>Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road<br>P.O.Box 44<br>Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India<br>Ph:+91-9168937964<br><a href="mailto:e-mail%3Anariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">e-mail:nariphaltan@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org</a><br><br><a href="http://www.nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">http://www.nariphaltan.org</a><br><br><a href="http://nariphaltan.org/about-2/awards/" target="_blank">http://nariphaltan.org/about-2/awards/</a> Awards for NARI staff<br><a href="http://nariphaltan.org/nari-in-press/" target="_blank">http://nariphaltan.org/nari-in-press/</a> NARI in press<br><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Nikhil Desai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pienergy2008@gmail.com" target="_blank">pienergy2008@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Anil: <br><br>Point taken. I don't think TLUDs have an explosive mixture, but I will let Paul, Ron, and Crispin to respond. <br><br>Let me turn things around and ask YOU: if not safe for closed house environment, is producer gas from biomass useful for commercial cooking, like the "cafeterias for the working poor" you suggested some nine years ago? (What I called Sodexho for the poor? At the time I didn't know Jayalalitha had Amma's Kitchens in Tamil Nadu and there are Indira Kitchens in Karnataka.) <br><br>Kitk Smith is obsessed with "household cooking" on which he has no data (and he has junked all his own data on different pollutants and mass ingestion for the dirty method of concocting concentrations applied to three billion people in the world). The future of cooking for the poor is not inside but outside the households, just that I need a few million dollars to prove Prof. Smith's wrong. (I can instead just quote him to himself; that's just a labor of love. Stay tuned.) <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Nikhil</font></span><span class=""><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:28 PM, nari phaltan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">nariphaltan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Paul. We used producer gas for cooking in late 90s quite a lot for producing syrup from sweet sorghum. The details are at; <a href="http://www.nariphaltan.org/sorghum.pdf" target="_blank">www.nariphaltan.org/sorghum.pd<wbr>f</a> together with photos.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Wood gas (producer gas) is a clean fuel but dangerous since it is a mixture of CO and H2. If not used with proper ventilation it can be lethal. In closed house environments it is not advisable to use it.</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75">Anil</div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#351c75"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_5064660671645754247m_1783742933870265729gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)<br>Tambmal, Phaltan-Lonand Road<br>P.O.Box 44<br>Phaltan-415523, Maharashtra, India<br>Ph:<a href="tel:+91%2091689%2037964" value="+919168937964" target="_blank">+91-9168937964</a><br><a href="mailto:e-mail%3Anariphaltan@gmail.com" target="_blank">e-mail:nariphaltan@gmail.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org" target="_blank">nariphaltan@nariphaltan.org</a> <br> </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></span></div>
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