[Gasification] Tom Reed Recovering from Fall

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Sun Jul 15 15:11:04 CDT 2012


Greetings Downdrafters,
     My solution is a reactor which doesn't need feed pelleting. I have 
never pelleted any product in any of my work and the current design can use 
pellets, but breaks them up before feeding. This design works very well for 
municipal solid waste/refuse derived fuel and anything else which can be put in 
the feed hopper. Only requirement is that the feed material either be 
crushable or have adequate fines in it to form a plug for sealing the feeding 
system. 
Sincerely,
Leland T. "Tom" Taylor
President
Thermogenics Inc. 

In a message dated 7/15/12 1:00:37 PM, a31ford at gmail.com writes:


> Greetings Tom, (and list)
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> Tom, It's great to hear that the fall was not really bad, even though 
> still an inconvenence though.
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> I have one question/answer I would like to pose, and that is....
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> Every pelletized product I've gasified, all have done the same thing, they 
> expand in heat/moisture of the hearth.
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>  One solution I've come up with (even though it lowers the total output of 
> the gasifier) is using parasitic power to run a torification process, 
> instead of a partial combustion process.
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> All in all, when one looks to both methods of gas evolution, the later is 
> a cleaner method (torification). With the losses of available mass for gas, 
> when partial combustion is applied, the parasitic power difference, in 
> torification is much less, (because of more mass being torified, instead of 
> combusted).
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> Torification is a much easier method of controlling the hearth's internal 
> temperature, IMO, and handles pelleted products much better, as it gets the 
> moisture level to a level that does not expand the pellets as much (air 
> moisture ??).
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> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Tombreed <tombreed2010 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear Mark and all
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> Thanks so much for your warming words, twice as warming, here in the 
> Fairview Recovery unit of the Worcester Memorial Hospital system.   I fell down 
> 13 stairs, bound to be unlucky, BUT no permanent damage!  I'm recuperating 
> in my daugher's guest suite, dreaming about a Fall cruise!
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> Here's a puzzle for all to chew on.  "Gasification" of wood implies the 
> complete conversion of both the cellulose (80%) and lignin (20%) components. 
>  The tars from the lignin are basically aromatic due to the aromatic 
> structure of lignin, and may be the principle component of the smoke and tar.
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> The primary fuel is then the cellulose smoke, various volatiles that burn 
> cleanly, leaving no solids. 
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> My expert Friend, Mike Antal, Coral Prof. At the University of Hawaii, 
> could give chapter and verse on the nature of the volatiles from burning 
> celluloses.  
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> Paper and high cellulose paper products could be a much cleaner 
> biomass fuel and are easily pelletized.  Wood pellets have become a major fuel source 
> in the past decade.  Is it possible that paper pellets could be even more 
> important and cleaner and cheaper?
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> Best wishes to all of you from Tom Reed, back from a bad fall.
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> Thomas B Reed 
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> On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:42 AM, "Mark Ludlow" <mark at ludlow.com> wrote:
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> Dear Dr. Reed,
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>  You are a mainstay and inspiration to us all. How frustrating it must 
> have been to feel yourself fall! There’s really no reason why the Universe 
> chose you. It certainly was not Karma.
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> I know you must feel miserable. But I hope that you know that many people 
> love and admire you and are probably wishing, as I wish, that they could 
> have taken that fall for you.
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> Best wishes,
> Mark 
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