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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (Thomas Reed)
   2. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (Pete & Sheri)
   3. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (doug.williams)
   4. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (doug.williams)
   5. gasifier type updarft use rice husk (quoc cuong Pham)
   6. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (Alex English)
   7. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (Tom Miles)
   8. Re: Fluidyne Update Photos. (Tom)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:24:37 -0500
From: Thomas Reed <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>
To: "doug.williams" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>,	Discussion of
	biomasspyrolysis and gasification
	<gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.
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Dear Doug

Your Fluidyne gasifier and Jim Masons GEK seem to be the best gasifiers  
around.  Do you know of any others?

Tom Reed

Dr Thomas B Reed 
The Biomass Energy Foundation
www.Woodgas.com

On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:25 AM, "doug.williams" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>  
wrote:

>  
> 
> Hi Gasification Colleagues,
>  
> The new photo file for the latest update on our Californian Development  
Project, is now available to see on the Fluidyne Archive  
www.fluidynenz.250x.com
>  
> Hope you can all access the file, and please let me know if you have  
difficulty.
> Doug Williams,
> Fluidyne Gasification.
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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 17:30:24 -0600
From: "Pete & Sheri" <spaco at baldwin-telecom.net>
To: "'doug.williams'" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>,	"'Discussion of
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Wow!  What a great report.

 

You mentioned that some of the wood chips had lots of fines.  Do you
preprocess them to eliminate those fines?  Are the trees debarked before
chipping?  

 

Just getting started,

Pet e Stanaitis 

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[mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of
doug.williams
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 11:26 PM
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
Subject: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.

 

 

 

Hi Gasification Colleagues,

 

The new photo file for the latest update on our Californian Development
Project, is now available to see on the Fluidyne Archive
www.fluidynenz.250x.com 

 

Hope you can all access the file, and please let me know if you have
difficulty.

Doug Williams,

Fluidyne Gasification.

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:01:24 +1300
From: "doug.williams" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Thomas Reed" <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>,	"Discussion of
	biomasspyrolysis and gasification"
	<gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.
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Hi Tom,

Thanks for your interest:

>Your Fluidyne gasifier and Jim Masons GEK seem to be the best gasifiers  
around. 

I can only say that our current work with gasification, is repeating what  
Jack Humphries and I set out to do in 1976, bring up the technology to meet  
modern standards, using materials that were but a dream in 1976!  As for  
being the best, well, I would settle for the most reliable for whatever we  
choose to do, but we are not trying to sell gasifiers to anyone at this time  
(:-)

 Do you know of any others?

Well, that is a curly one, for some make claims of selling gasifiers which  
are hard to verify. There are many offering gasifiers around the USA as I am  
sure you are aware, but to what standard other than their own marketing  
hype, do they meet? All gasifiers that are offered for sale, should have a  
certificate of compliance for any specific application to sort out  
commercial quality systems. 

We can only hope that not to many duds get sold for inappropriate  
applications.

Doug Williams,
Fluidyne Gasification.



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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:16:42 +1300
From: "doug.williams" <Doug.Williams at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Pete & Sheri" <spaco at baldwin-telecom.net>,	"'Discussion of
	biomass pyrolysis and gasification'"
	<gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.
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Hi Pete,

You ask:

 >You mentioned that some of the wood chips had lots of fines.  Do you  
preprocess them to eliminate those fines?

At this time no, because we are testing how these types of chips behave in  
packed beds. It's all about surface area of the fuel changing the speed of  
gas making within your chosen rage of gas outputs. The rule of thumb still  
applies, finer fuels mean smaller gas outputs and or gasifier size.

>Are the trees debarked before chipping? 

The tree tops we use are not debarked, but after drying in a log dump, much  
of the bark falls off as handled. Bark in itself, is not a problem in a  
gasifier, but mud and dirt in the bark, certainly can make for slag or  
clinker problems.  

> Just getting started,

You might just be ready in five years (:-)

Doug Williams,
Fluidyne. 
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:18:25 -0800
From: quoc cuong Pham <pqcuong84 at gmail.com>
To: Gasification at bioenergylists.org
Subject: [Gasification] gasifier type updarft use rice husk
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hi all!
I design updarft rice husk capacity 100kg/h.there is a problem tar  
high,process
level of Moist.
Fuel use burn direct and no craking tar.
discontinuous and working gas is laborious, low-built efficency.there is
betterment which way neither.
thanks!
cuong.pq
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:44:46 -0500
From: Alex English <english at kingston.net>
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
	<stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>,	Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and
	gasification	<gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.
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Doug ,Tom,

Although the dazzling blue flame is but the revealing  icing on your 
linear gasifier cake. I have a question about it. Did InstrumenTom 
measure its exhaust? Numbers?

"With all gas going to the flare stack, this flow of 147 scft/min made 
an impressive flare roughly 2m high. In this mode, considerable 
information is obtained from the flare, especially the presence of 
carbon blacks, or tars, which contaminate the feathery ends of the outer 
edges."

When I see changes in the feathery ends of the outer edges, I'm inclined 
to think that it is from the formation of compounds formed within an 
oxygen starved portion of the flame.
If black carbons or tars where carried over from the gasifier might you 
not see them glowing  lower down in the flame as well?
Can you make the flare flame tips change colour by pushing it rich?

Thanks for posting the report.

Alex


>
> *Hi Gasification Colleagues,*
> **
> *The new photo file for the latest update on our Californian 
> Development Project, is now available to see on the Fluidyne Archive 
> www.fluidynenz.250x.com <http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com> *
> *Hope you can all access the file, and please let me know if you have 
> difficulty.*
> *Doug Williams,*
> *Fluidyne Gasification.*
>
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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 07:39:51 -0800
From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
To: "'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'"
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	cooking stoves'" <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
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Alex,

 

I'm preparing to gasify sewage sludge in another location today but I'll
post the numbers. The gas flame is very steady and manageable. We can easily
control O2 from about 3% to 8%. NOx and CO are less than 100 ppm. 

 

Tom  

 

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[mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Alex
English
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 3:45 AM
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves; Discussion of biomass pyrolysis
and gasification
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.

 

Doug ,Tom,

Although the dazzling blue flame is but the revealing  icing on your linear
gasifier cake. I have a question about it. Did InstrumenTom measure its
exhaust? Numbers?

"With all gas going to the flare stack, this flow of 147 scft/min made an
impressive flare roughly 2m high. In this mode, considerable information is
obtained from the flare, especially the presence of carbon blacks, or tars,
which contaminate the feathery ends of the outer edges."

When I see changes in the feathery ends of the outer edges, I'm inclined to
think that it is from the formation of compounds formed within an oxygen
starved portion of the flame.
If black carbons or tars where carried over from the gasifier might you not
see them glowing  lower down in the flame as well?
Can you make the flare flame tips change colour by pushing it rich?

Thanks for posting the report.

Alex





 

Hi Gasification Colleagues,

 

The new photo file for the latest update on our Californian Development
Project, is now available to see on the Fluidyne Archive
www.fluidynenz.250x.com 

 

Hope you can all access the file, and please let me know if you have
difficulty.

Doug Williams,

Fluidyne Gasification.






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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:28:14 -0500
From: Tom <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
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Subject: Re: [Gasification] Fluidyne Update Photos.
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Alex

The orange glow in the flame is incandescent carbon above 1000 C. So , in  
cool parts of the unburied gases you don't see the soot.  But where there is  
a diffusion flame with air ,  it lights up. 

It would be interesting to view the flme/gas structure with infra red  
goggles. 

Tom Reed

>From Tom Reed

AKA

Dr Thomas B Reed
508 353 7841
Www.Woodgas.com

On Dec 7, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Alex English <english at kingston.net> wrote:

> Doug ,Tom,
> 
> Although the dazzling blue flame is but the revealing  icing on your  
linear gasifier cake. I have a question about it. Did InstrumenTom      
measure its exhaust? Numbers?
> 
> "With all gas going to the flare stack, this flow of 147 scft/min made an  
impressive flare roughly 2m high. In this mode, considerable information is  
obtained from the flare, especially the presence of carbon blacks, or tars,  
which contaminate the feathery ends of the outer edges."
> 
> When I see changes in the feathery ends of the outer edges, I'm inclined  
to think that it is from the formation of compounds formed within an oxygen  
starved portion of the flame.
> If black carbons or tars where carried over from the gasifier might you  
not see them glowing  lower down in the flame as well?
> Can you make the flare flame tips change colour by pushing it rich?
> 
> Thanks for posting the report.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
>> 
>> Hi Gasification Colleagues,
>>  
>> The new photo file for the latest update on our Californian Development  
Project, is             now available to see on the Fluidyne Archive  
www.fluidynenz.250x.com
>>  
>> Hope you can all access             the file, and please let me know if  
you have difficulty.
>> Doug Williams,
>> Fluidyne Gasification.
>> 
>> 
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