On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:58:52 -0500, GF wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> > Brian. > I have brought this matter up on several occasions regarding > secondary exposure of thermal energy to the output gas. It seems to > me that raising the temperature within a reaction chamber in the > absence of oxygen and adding steam through a hollow carbon rod, ..sounds like a nice sophisticated, expensive way to make synthetic gas out of that steamy carbon tube. ;o) > the tip of which is producing a plasma can only improve the quality > and quantity of usable gas, which will more than compensate for the > electrical energy used. > > There will be a considerable reduction in the flow of air for > pyrolysis. In fact commercial plasma reactors do not require any air > for combustion the oxygen is derived from steam. Use could be made of > the hot exhaust stream from an ICE to torrify the "FUEL" in order to > produce the required gas flow through such a reactor, thus claiming > much of the thermal energy being wasted. the final product would also > produce methanol not tar. I hope to obtain a high enough plasma > temperature with the use of micro wave excitation, 2.4 Ghz radiation > can travel through some types of refractory. this will cut costs > considerably. ..you can contain that MW scale 2.4Ghz radiation so you don't jam out mW scale 2.4Ghz WIFI, Bluetooth and cell phone etc communications? (Would make a nice revenge for my first ISP job though, we were WIFI-based and were jammed out of business by Telenor's home WIFI routers.) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ 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.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
