[Gasification]   Sweden's trash project / Japanese trash project

LINVENT at aol.com LINVENT at aol.com
Sun Dec 9 17:35:34 CST 2012


     The Japanese have had incinerators, using supercompressed MSW for 
ocean fill which didn't work as the bales decompressed, plasma, dual stage 
combustors, pyrolyzers and a host of systems that were very expensive and could 
only be justified with the Japanese economics of disposal and power value. 
Thermoselect's only remaining operating system that I am aware of is in Japan. 
This pyrolysis/combustion system had serious problems of operating costs 
and emissions in Europe and were subjects of legal actions against the 
personnel for violating hazardous waste and emissions reporting. 
        There are plenty of "paper designs" that haven't been reduced to 
practice and if built, have serious problems. There are innumerable systems 
that have been proposed using the same tried and failed systems that appear to 
be fit for Clarendon, the insane asylum where Marquis de Sade wrote some of 
his most interesting works, the rule being the definition of insanity is 
trying the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome. It is 
easy to spot "engineer" designed systems, they typically will use 
baghouses, cyclones, water sprays, venturi scrubbers, for gas cleaning, solid surface 
heat exchanging, sulfur or other contaminant removal units and a host of 
other systems that don't work or are too expensive when applied to the 
gasification field. 
     We have plenty of folks who are looking for gasification systems and 
some of the most popular ones have had their customers discuss with 
Thermogenics their problems of operations, typically difficulty with feeding, engine 
instable operation, very narrow range feed acceptablity, high carbon/ash 
yield, and in the case of MSW/RDF, having a small particle size for fluidized 
bed or plasma operation that isn't necessary. 



Sincerely,

Leland T. "Tom" Taylor
President
Thermogenics Inc.
701 Madison St. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110
project site: 511 Ave. G
Lubbock, Texas 79401
505-463-8422
www.thermogenics.com
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