Hallo Brian, Doug and list, this looks amazing ! The filtering seems to be very good.
You and Doug seem to have experience with stocking producer gas. May I ask you some questions ? We have 5 separate houses/cabins on our land , all of them with solar and individual wood and /or almond shell burning fireplaces . All of them are hidronic underfloor systems with hot sanitary water tanks . The distances between these houses make a central water heat distribution system rather inviable. We are off grid and run electricitywise on solar, wind and micro hydro. There is a backup generator slow speed diesel running on WVO. My idea is to connect all houses to a single gassifier of around 40 -50 kW gas output and store a few hours gas in a gasometer and have the gassy start and stop and run at close to full output as the gasometer level demands so as to give it " an easy life " tarwise. The clean and cool gas could run through ordinary PE pipes to the individual houses where it should burn in gas furnaces. A part of it could run the Listeroid genset which already works in chp mode. I remember systems like this being built in Switzerland until 30-40 years ago for large kitchens and heating boilers in hotels and other remote buildings in the mountains. The manufacturer was located in Horgen on Lake Zurich. I would have to dive very deep into my old records to find him... I attended the Germany GEK workshop with Jim last year, but he seems to busy to have time to spare for me. It is a pity. Questions: Do you have a gassifier of that range 40 - 50 kW gas, not engine kW ? Do you think that after scrubbing the gas could be "compressed " slightly to 300-400 mb and stored in a gasometer ? Has anybody sent producer gas through PE pipes over 150 m ? Where do you expect the real difficulties ? Looking foreward to your answer. Rolf Am Sonntag, 30. Januar 2011 18:06:37 schrieb Brian D Paasch: > On Jan 29, 2011, at 8:10 PM, doug.williams wrote: > > To finger the problem of using industrial scale producer gas, is that > > most large systems are not tar free, and if you need to compress the gas, > > technical challenges come thick and fast. > > Doug, > > Oh goodness yes! We've not been willing to TOUCH the compression challenges > until we got our gas pretty darn clean. I'm cautiously optimistic with > where we are at on that task: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNypVoZg3VA > > And right now we're planning on three separate compression steps with > additional filters between each step. > > And thanks for the pointer to your archives, I will certainly browse! > > -brian > > > > --------------------------------------- > Indiana Renewables, LLC > 6600 Karyn Drive > Avon, Indiana 46123 > ph: 317-272-7939 > fax: 317-536-5326 _______________________________________________ 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/
