Thanks Doug and Tom for responding to my inquiry, A little clarity is in order. I am a designer for an R&D company that tends to contract to Federal agencies. I have discussions with top level decision makers within the company. I have pointed out the US Army's seven billion dollar energy acqusition program and have suggested that my employer consider a Power Producing Agreement (PPA) with the Army. I have suggested that Federal lands provide the space for biofuel crops. These crops would ultimately be converted via pyrolysis to a coal surrogate that can be handled like fossil coal. However, the PPA power would likely have to be distributed in a decentralized, on-site fashion and on a scale much smaller than the typical gigawatt power plant.
It's not my interest to employ gasification as the fuel product, but as part of the process to produce a transportable, exportable, friable, solid fuel from the feedstocks. My review of the gasification industry shows that the technology for producing the "bio-coal" is mature and readily available. However, it doesn't appear there are small scale, power-plants suitable for on-site power production. Any suggestions? Thanks again, and Bioenergylists is one of the best forums on the web. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:35 AM, doug.williams <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > *Hi Kenny,* > ** > *You ask*: > > Is anyone aware of a US commercial producer of small-scale, solid-fuel > (bio-coal fired) power plants in the 1 to 20 MW range? > > *Please define your version of bio-coal, as it can have differing > interpretations. It suggests charcoal, if so, one might expect for you to > consider a number of options. **Tell us more. because there is a huge gap > between raw and "pre-charred" fuel gasification. Your range of outputs > stretch credibility to supply a pre-carbonized fuel for 20MWe, so what is > the direction of your enquiry? Possibly you are researching the > capabilities of the technology, but 1-20MWe is rather big when discussing > biomass gasification systems. You might also comment on the end use of the > gas, boiler of engine power generation? * > ** > *This forum has an affinity with discussing these issues, because the > future needs what we may be able to do, given the right challenges, and > your question should trigger off comment from the accumulated expertise.* > ** > *Doug Williams,* > *Fluidyne.* > > _______________________________________________ > 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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