[Gasification] 1. Re: Wood Chip classificaton (Bruce Green) Gasification Digest, Vol 20, Issue 7

[Elisabeth Staniewski]

Hello my friends at GasificationDigest.  I have not received any messages
since probably April of this year.  Have I missed anything, like changing
names/websites, etc?

Kind Regards,

Elisabeth Staniewski
Enerquest Consulting

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:56 AM, David Coote <dccoote at mira.net> wrote:

> On 16/04/2012 5:00 AM, gasification-request at lists.**bioenergylists.org<gasification-request at lists.bioenergylists.org>wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>     1. Re: Wood Chip classificaton (Bruce Green)
>>     2. Re: Wood Chip classificaton (Peter&  Kerry)
>>     3. Re: Why would you want to make heating grade woodgas?
>>        (Peter&  Kerry)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:29:41 -0400
>> From: Bruce Green<clascent at gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
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>> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Wood Chip classificaton
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>> Hi all, If you really want to dry something cheap use a greenhouse. See
>> this technology  http://www.parkson.com/**products/thermo-system<http://www.parkson.com/products/thermo-system>  . Bruce
>> Green
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>> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Luke Gardner<lgardner at wwest.net>  wrote:
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> I thought about doing this as part of my research using a solar kiln. At
> it's simplest this might be wheel in an open mesh side container full of
> moist chip, leave for a few days, take out nice dry chip and
> combust/gasify. The problem, of course, is that the chip will only dry
> towards the outside of the container. Handling costs get restrictive if you
> put the chip in trays and placing the chip in some kind of tumbler involves
> extra expense for the tumbler and also some energy (and cost) to drive the
> tumbler.
>
> I was in Finland a few weeks ago where I was introduced to the concept of
> a drying trailer where air is actively moved across a relatively small
> container full of chip. Apparently this can dry the chip reasonably
> efficiently. I might revisit the solar kiln idea using this approach. As
> with everything in this area for a commercial operation it's all about the
> cost
>
> Cheers
>
> David
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