[Gasification] 100kw Powertainer unveiling this week at University of Minnesota, Morris

Wed Jun 27 14:59:11 CDT 2012

To Tom Miles, and all

Hello Tom,

We at Planet Green Solutions would also like to be added to your list of
small scale systems being commercially built.  Allow me to introduce
myself, I am Chris Morrison, President of Planet Green Solutions.  We
consist of a small group of engineers and scientists who have quietly been
working in this field.  Five or six years ago we made a list of what we
considered difficulties and deficiencies with the currently available
technology and have endeavored to bring the small scale side closer to a
21st Century type useable product for the industrial market.  The short
form of the list included: improved reactor design for much improved fuel,
far less down time for scheduled maintenance, Better material science for
greater longevity, User friendly automation on the scale of operating a
household appliance, Consistent reliability, Dependable output performance,
Cost effective down stream gas filtration. etc.

We now would like to be put on record that we have achieved this with a
much improved manageable and affordable small scale commercial system.  Our
Web-site is www.Planetgreensolutions.com <http://www.planetgreensolutions.com>.
 We have multiple systems operating every day and are building more to fill
orders.   I would like to take this time to extend an open invitation for
you to visit and see for yourself of the viability of our claims.   Our
price sheet is published on our Site.  And our complete larger systems are
around $ 2,00 per Watt.  We have thousands of hours of system experience
and our oldest running system is nearly three years old.

Respectfully,

Chris Morrison

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Congratulations, Jim.
>
> I'm sure that your "powertainer" will be an "entertainer" for many weeks to
> come. :-/
>
> I know that you are trying to make the technology affordable which is one
> goal we need to achieve. Another important goal is to make the technology
> reliable.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
> [mailto:gasification-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of jim
> mason
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 10:30 AM
> To: gasification at bioenergylists.org
> Subject: [Gasification] 100kw Powertainer unveiling this week at University
> of Minnesota, Morris
>
> Bear Kaufmann, Jeff Tiedeken and I (Jim Mason) are at University of
> Minnesota, Morris this week installing the Powertainer and setting it up
> for
> its initial runs onsite.  This has been a long haul, and we're very happy
> to
> finally have it here and soon begin pumping power back into the grid.   A
> big thank you goes to Lowell Rasmussen, Jim Barbour and Dave Aronson at the
> UMM for making this project possible, as well as their general dedication
> to
> proving small scale biomass energy for midwestern ag applications.
>
> There is a formal opening and demonstration onsite this Thursday from
> 1-3pm.
>  It is open to the public so if you are in the area, you are welcome to
> attend.  More information on the opening and the project can be found in
> the
> press release here:
>
> http://www.power-eng.com/news/2012/06/23/university-of-minnesota-morris-demo
> nstrates-new-power-technology.html
>
> For the next 6 months we'll be learning and refining the installation
> onsite, and hopefully ending with a daily running installation.  There are
> many details to work out, and surely many things yet to learn.
> However, we are very satisfied with the fundamentals, and the general
> proving that one can compact and integrate the full gasification system
> (gasifier, filtration, engine and hopper) within one 20'
> shipping container.  The goal is the total system in a box, drop it off the
> truck and go.  No onsite construction.  Fill the hopper with a conveyor,
> skid steer or bucket tractor.
>
> The architecture for this system is essentially the TOTTI vessel and heat
> exchange relationships scaled up, with an additional stage of using the
> engine radiator blast for predrying the fuel.  The hopper is open to
> atmosphere, with a louvered base, so we can pass the hot radiator blast
> through the bed.  This should significantly extend the fuel moisture range
> beyond the 30% or so top we can tolerate in the standard TOTTI on the Power
> Pallet.  We'll be running corn cobs at UMM.  Most of the testing at APL
> were
> on wood chips.
>
> As usual, what started as a gasifier project turned into a fuel handling
> project.  Getting a 24hr hopper integrated into the shipping container,
> with
> airlock and secondary heated auger to the gasifier, turned into a
> non-trivial 3D LEGO puzzle.  See the galleries for the details for how we
> finally solved it.  Thank you to Nick Monahan for the CAD sheet metal
> origami that rendered it to real.
>
>
> See here for the full gallery of photos from the install at Univeristy of
> Minnesota, Morris
>
> http://gekgasifier.com/wpgallery/powertainer-at-university-of-minnesota-morr
> is/
>
> See here for the full gallery of photos from the testing at APL in Berkeley
> http://gekgasifier.com/wpgallery/100kw-powertainer-at-apl-june-2012/
>
>
> We get many people asking us when we can offer this unit to other projects.
>  The answer is not yet.  We are not yet at a point of maturity in the
> design
> and details to offer this as a regular commercial unit.  We expect to be
> there in about one year.
>
> To help us get there, we are looking for additional projects where a still
> in development system is an appropriate fit.  This will be a research or
> entrepreneurial setting that can tolerate a
> not-yet-fully-hands-off-24/7-running-systyem, in return for the ultimate
> reward of a much compacted and price optimized total solution vs other
> current options on the market.   Write us at gek at allpowerlabs.org if you
> are
> interested.
>
> Hope to see some of you in Morris this Thursday.
>
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Jim Mason
> Website: http://www.whatiamupto.com
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>    - Escape from Berkeley alt fuels vehicle race:
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