[Gasification] Gasification Digest, Vol 16, Issue 16

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Fri Dec 23 18:00:31 CST 2011


hiya Guy s With all the THANK YOU S Going Round A Warm Thanx Another
Year of INSIGHTS And Answerd Question A Super Job + All The Work You
Guys Commit     Appreciated  Someone Had said they may have 50KW
Gasifier 4Sell Pls Cont   Ahappy +A Merry   Humble y   Ever ThankFull
   Has Anyone Bin Workin On Or With Canola Straw        2 Different
Redilly Available Fuels Beetle kill Pine + Rape Straw  Bless Ya
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> From: Thomas Reed <tombreed2010 at gmail.com>
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> Dear Gasers and Stovers
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> Someone asked recently how hot the TLUD stoves got during operation.  I made
> a number of tests below on gasifying several fuels.  The highest temperature
> I measured during the pyrolysis operation with the Cen-Tech IR pyrometers
> was 190 C.  However, when the yellow flame disappeared and charcoal was
> gasifying the temperature rose to 350C.
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> MESQUITE, LIGNIN, AND PINE TLUD  PYROLYSIS
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> THE FOLLOWING FUELS WERE BURNED IN A 4" D X 6" TALL TLUD STOVE AND THE
> WEIGHT CHANGE RECORDED.
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> Note:  The tests were done on a scale weighing to 1/2 g and time recorded
> every minute.
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> Dry wood typically has an energy content of 21 kJ/g.  However in the TLUD
> stove only the cellulose contributes is vaporized, approximately 16 kJ/g of
> weight loss, while the lignin is carbonized to charcoal.
>
> MESQUITE
> Mesquite is said to have a very high lignin content, compared to other
> woods, 64%!
> If lignin is the precursor of charcoal, mesquite should give a very high
> yield of charcoal.
>
> 152 g of mesquite chips were placed in the Wanderer stove and ignited with
> the propane torch.
>
> Time.  Weight.     DW (weight change)
> 0.         152
> 1.         141.            11          Mesquite  Chunks too big, requires
> lots of ignition with propane torch
> 2.         135.            14
> 3.         128.              7
> 4.         121.              7
> 5.          110.           11
> 6.           98.            12
> 7.            86.        .  12.          Highest Temperature with Cen-Tech
> IR pyrometers 190 C.
> 8.           72.            14
> 9.            60.           12
> 10.          46.           14
> 11.          34.5.        11.5
> 12.          21.          13.5
> 13.            9.         12.       End of yellow flame,  put charcoal in
> can and weighed
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> Yield:    38 g ==> 38/152= 25.0%
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> COMMENT - this is a High charcoal yield, but not enormous.  The pine chunks
> below yielded 15% charcoal.
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> <><><><>
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> Same experiment with lignin chunks from a brown forest lignin log broken up
> by hand.  Incredibly light.  Probably the first time anyone ever gasified
> pure lignin - and maybe the last.  It is a very low density fuel, since all
> the cellulose was eaten by microorganisms.
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>
> Time     wt.             dW
> 0.           54
> 1.           47.            7
> 2.           40.            7
> 3.           32.5.       7.5               Some soot in flame
> 4.           27.5.       5
> 4.5.      26.            1.5               Yellow out
>
> Yield 6.5 g,  12%.
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> I have long believed that it is the lignin that is the precursor to
> charcoal.
> This experiment suggeststhis is probably not true.
>
> <><><><>
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> Pine block - Wanderer
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> 3/4 sq x1" pine blocks
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> 0.      96.5.      dW
> 1.         89.          7.5
> 2.        85.         4.0
> 3.        80.5.    4.5
> 4.        76           4.5.               Can maximum temperature 190C.
> 5.         71.            5
> 6.         65.          6
> 7.          57.          8
> 8.         51.5.       5.5
> 9.          46.         6.5
> 10.        39.           7              Flame low
> 11.           31.5.       7.5          Flame much higher, end effect
> 12.         22.           9.5           big fire
> 13.         13.              9             All block surfaces on fire, but
> centers still outgasing
> 14.         5.5.          7.5          Can temp 350 with Cen-Tech IR
> pyrometers
>
> 15 g charcoal = 15.5%
>
> Note: dry wood has a typical heat of combustion of  21 kJ/g, so complete
> combustion would generate (21000/60) 350 Watts/Gm-min.
>
> However in the TLUD this is reduced to maybe 16 kJ/Gm-min or 270
> Watts/g-min, because mostly cellulose and water are volatilized and the
> remaining charcoal generates  26 kJ/g, or 433 W/g-min.
>
> So a burn rate of 12 g/min would yield a (270 X  12) 3.2 kW flame.
> Fuel bed 4"D  x 3" deep
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> I hope this information is useful, but needs digesting.
>
> Tom Reed
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