Greetings Jeff, (and list members).
Jeff, If I was to run 8 hours a day, that would be about the rough length of time a seed bag would last (give or take a day). A good approximation of most non-densified bio-mass, is that a standard 5 gallon pail is about 4.5 kg worth of dry (under 15% mc), this would be about 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 hours of heating in one of our downdraft heating plants. There are roughly 5 - 5 gallon pails to a bushel, and about 10 bushels to a seed bag. So 50 pails in a seed bag. 7 times 8 is 56, so 7 days at 8 hours would roughly be 56 pails or just over one seed bag, if we conservatively say, "one hour a pail". Side note: My own location has a very high heat load, as we heat 3 buildings, as well as the domestic hot water (side arm on the houses' DHW). 75,000 BTU/hr. during the night, and 30,000 BTU/hr. during the days (roughly) at minus -30 below C. (give or take). Greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jeff Davis Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:12 PM To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] Manure Gasifier in Colorado Dear Greg, I tip my hat to you! If it was me I would be looking for enough to run a week eight hours a day. Keep up the good work, Jeff On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 06:03 -0600, Greg Manning wrote: > I found that a "seed bag" (what farmers use for transporting crop > seed) about 1 m3, is an ideal test sample size, -- ________________________________________________ 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.bioenerg ylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3397 - Release Date: 01/22/11 _______________________________________________ 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/
