[Gasification] Enventix: Syngas and Biochar from Waste

Thomas Reed tombreed2010 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 11:13:06 CST 2011


Dear GF and all

When I was a young (16) sprat I got used graphite electrodes from the movie theatre projector man and putthem in series with my mother's iron to AC melt all kinds of stuff.  Also blew a lot of fuses.

Tom Reed

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

On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:54 PM, GF <gfwhell at aol.com> wrote:

> Arnt.
> I wouldn't say it was sophisticated or difficult to rework a couple of road side microwave ovens.
> http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html
> This guy seems to be able to cast metal and talk on his cellphone at the same time.
> Extra cooling of the magnetrons is essential,the 12volt fans are only $6 each,
> An awareness of the dangers of stray radiation is useful. A sheet
> metal enclosure suitably grounded, forming a "Faraday cage" will help.
> Fluorescent tubes will glow in the presence of such radiation and as you say
> RFI will prevail if you are careless,
> Carbon arc furnaces are old technology.and not cheap to run unless you make your own electrodes.
> I think its great that some of the group are thinking out side the box.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnt Karlsen <arnt at c2i.net>
> To: gasification at lists.bioenergylists.org
> Sent: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 2:22 pm
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Enventix: Syngas and Biochar from Waste
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> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:58:52 -0500, GF wrote in message 
> <8CD84E3897DF9D0-474-1B599 at webmail-stg-m04.sysops.aol.com>:
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> >  Brian.
> > I have brought this matter up on several occasions regarding
> > secondary exposure of thermal energy to the output gas. It seems to
> > me that raising the temperature within a reaction chamber in the
> > absence of oxygen and adding steam through a hollow carbon rod, 
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> ..sounds like a nice sophisticated, expensive way to make synthetic 
> gas out of that steamy carbon tube. ;o)
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> > the tip of which is producing a plasma can only improve the quality
> > and quantity of usable gas, which will more than compensate for the
> > electrical energy used.
> > 
> >  There will be a considerable reduction in the flow of air for
> > pyrolysis. In fact commercial plasma reactors do not require any air
> > for combustion the oxygen is derived from steam. Use could be made of
> > the hot exhaust stream from an ICE  to torrify the "FUEL" in order to
> > produce the required gas flow  through such a reactor, thus claiming
> > much of the thermal energy being wasted. the final product would also
> > produce methanol not tar. I hope to obtain a high enough plasma
> > temperature with the use of micro wave excitation, 2.4 Ghz radiation
> > can travel through some types of refractory. this will cut costs
> > considerably.
> 
> ..you can contain that MW scale 2.4Ghz radiation so you don't
> jam out mW scale 2.4Ghz WIFI, Bluetooth and cell phone etc
> communications?  (Would make a nice revenge for my first ISP 
> job though, we were WIFI-based and were jammed out of business 
> by Telenor's home WIFI routers.)
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> -- 
> ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
> ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
>   Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
>   best case, worst case, and just in case.
> 
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