Dear GF and all When I was a young (16) sprat I got used graphite electrodes from the movie theatre projector man and putthem in series with my mother's iron to AC melt all kinds of stuff. Also blew a lot of fuses.
Tom Reed Dr Thomas B Reed President, The Biomass Energy Foundation www.Woodgas.com On Jan 18, 2011, at 12:54 PM, GF <[email protected]> wrote: > Arnt. > I wouldn't say it was sophisticated or difficult to rework a couple of road > side microwave ovens. > http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html > This guy seems to be able to cast metal and talk on his cellphone at the same > time. > Extra cooling of the magnetrons is essential,the 12volt fans are only $6 each, > An awareness of the dangers of stray radiation is useful. A sheet > metal enclosure suitably grounded, forming a "Faraday cage" will help. > Fluorescent tubes will glow in the presence of such radiation and as you say > RFI will prevail if you are careless, > Carbon arc furnaces are old technology.and not cheap to run unless you make > your own electrodes. > I think its great that some of the group are thinking out side the box. > > GFWHELL > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 2:22 pm > Subject: Re: [Gasification] Enventix: Syngas and Biochar from Waste > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > 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/
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