Dear Doug,
Thanks for your quick and detailed answers.
I agree with you that often customer who does not know gasification at
all comes to us to ask whether our gasifier is able to gasify
all.....Obviously, no gasifier could today.
When we say "no, it is not able to". They do not really care about why
but they go to another gasifier supplier to ask the same question.
Li
--Le 31/03/2011 00:18, doug.williams a écrit
*Hi Jeremie and Li,*
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*In answer to your questions:*
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*
*Doug,
Can you tell me where you experienced gasification in Madagascar?
*I stated that I provided assistance to these engineers, not actually
work in Madagascar. They knew nothing about gasification, wanted to
build locally, and wanted cheap.*
**
*We discussed known and potential applications, the local level of
technology, current transport systems and energy use, weather,
environmental issues, and the indigenous population. The discussions
stopped when they said the fuel was going to be grass, because it was
available every where. I referred them to very practical DIY
briquetting technologies, with advise on how these might be produced
in a thermally bonded format, the most appropriate way for these types
of fuels to be gasified in some sort of reliable way. This would then
allow a place to start for any testing to begin. I never heard from
them again, which was about six years ago, and their file has long
gone, along with the contact details. I do have to have a big clean
out at least every three years, as there is little need for me to keep
tag of these endless type of enquiries. *
Who were the French engineers?
*They must have been in a large town with water supplies, and were
responsible for supplying and running the water works.*
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*Do you know if it is still running?
*Based from experience from other enquiries, it is very unlikely they
went any further with their ideas and built anything at all. It's not
that you cannot do things, but severely limited by your own ability
and knowledge to make it happen. The choice of fuel being grass,
straight away took them into a place with no know commercial history
of proven application. Wood and charcoal was not an option if I
remember correctly.*
**
*Sorry there is not more to add, but this is typical of how many
working in areas of need, can make big mistakes.*
**
*Doug Williams,*
*Fluidyne Gasification.*
**
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