Very Well Said, Bruce, "hats off to ya" !
Greg Manning, Canadian Gasifier Ltd. (http://www.cangas.ca) Building Hi-Performance Gasifiers, Since 2001 Brandon, Manitoba, Canada 1 (204) 726-1851 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Bruce Jackson Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:14 AM To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] Syngas on Wiki_ Hey, When this thread started I was shocked. I am very literal, and don't like terms to be confusing. At the time I couldn't remember why it bothered me, but I knew I didn't like jim's talk of drifting meanings. I knew he was right, so I gave that to him. Me, I built a gas producer, and it makes producer gas, because that is what the boys back in 1906 called it. I figured I better stay out of it because I am so archaic and not hip. Then.... jim asked about how C-2C connections work. Suddenly, terms like motor, generator, engine, phase, and voltage take on very precise meanings. In the common, non-literal world out there, you can have an engine being called a motor. You can have "split phase" power. When jim started reading all the common language (with their meaning drifts) he ran head on into why we should be very precise about our terminology, why its so confusing to not be literal. He was trying to learn how an engine that turns a three phase motor, can be connected with two banks of capacitors, and used as a generator. This is confusing enough, then when you throw in the common misconception about the generated power's phase being "split", well it made a great example of what this thread was all about. Its almost funny... An engine is a motor, but a motor uses electricity. A motor is never an engine. A motor is a generator when its spun by an engine or another motor. A generator is a motor (on a garden tractor), but mostly its a generator. So I guess I am firmly back home in the literal camp, and just ask that if you change the meaning of producer gas, that you let me know, so I mumble something else when the neighbors see me shaking my grates or stoking my hoppers. Yours in literal obfuscation, Bruce Jackson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- From: Bill Klein <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 10:26:28 AM Subject: Re: [Gasification] Syngas on Wiki_ Well said, Greg! During this discussion several well meaning folks have alluded to the rationalization that states if an academic paper uses the term "syngas" rather than "producer gas" or if a governmental body does the same, it becomes some sort of proof positive that the terms are not only interchangeable, but we can ignore specificity in favor of a simple catch all generic term. All because some professor wrote a paper and, though well intentioned, ignorantly used the wrong word!!? Or someone in the government demonstrating equal ignorance? What a joke! Let's face it. Those that can, do! and those that cannot, teach! Those that cannot teach work for the government. It's that simple. Producer gas, by any other name is still producer gas and if you don't do a good job making it, the resulting mess is sticky, smelly and unhealthy. We manufacture gasifiers. We test the hell out of them before we ship them in order to ensure each makes the correct amount of producer gas! Have a gassy New Year! Bill Klein, 3i ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Manning" <[email protected]> To: "'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:31 AM Subject: Re: [Gasification] Syngas on Wiki_ LMAO Jeff. You hit two nails with the same hammer. Shells' claim is that it "cleans" (their N2 is in the form of a "recumbent NOx format", that "Boosts" performance to the point of a clean combustion, as per say, like a hot-rodders's "NOX" add-on). Jim's statement (that you included below) Is yet again a form of deflection, (incorrect of course), Or should I say, Correct....... N2 content is EXACTLY the differentiation between "SYNGAS" and "Producer Gas" Heck, There's Town gas, Lime gas, Produced gas, Producer gas, Coal gas, Wood gas, Piped gas, Charcoal gas, Synthesis (Syn) gas, Lamp gas, Heating gas, Municipal gas, Queen's gas, Lamp lighters gas, Crier's gas, and finally, Natural gas. And as Bill Kline added, the "new and Improved" "GEK Gas" as a tongue in cheek addition to the already rampant list above. I'm Tired, of people trying to display a "cow" as a cow that is "New and Improved" version (chocolate ?), don't muddy the already bad waters of gasification, with cross-gendered, yuppie-flavored, names of gases that simply ain't so. I hate to say it, but... "It's people like you, that have given gasification the bad name it already has with investors, with your "pie in the sky claims"". Jim, run your "Syngas" un-stripped in an FT process, (that works), THEN, I will relinquish the "the moon" to you....(you will deserve it, for your advances in the quantum mechanics of physics). Greg Manning, Canadian Gasifier Ltd. (http://www.cangas.ca) Building Hi-Performance Gasifiers, Since 2001 Brandon, Manitoba, Canada 1 (204) 726-1851 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jeff Davis Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 6:35 PM To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] Syngas on Wiki_ Dear All, As a side note; I drive by a gasoline station, maybe Shell, that puffs that they're gasoline has nitrogen added. Interesting... H. N. Y., Jeff On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 21:07 -0800, jim mason wrote: > percentage nitrogen density isn't really the relevant racetrack to > work out the real issues with this tech. -- ________________________________________________ www.puffergas.com Sent from any port in the storm via Acer netbook & Ubuntu Remix. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioene rg ylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ ----- No virus found in this message. 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