On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:33:47 -0800, Tom wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> While we develop gasification and pyrolysis for their benefits we > need to manage the byproducts so they don't endanger health. > > > > I posted the Myanmar story on this list about a year ago. I do not > know if anything has been done about it. > > > > It should be easy to accept the fact that tar in water can be toxic. > Run your dirty gasifier, clean the gas with water, and have the water > analyzed. You will ring all the bells for toxicity (mostly from > benzene and cresols). Picture that water going into ponds and > waterways where people bath and wash their clothes. Why should anyone > be surprised that people can get sick? Not everyone is like the man I > met in Siberia, where the life expectancy is about 59, who > attributed his old age and good health to taking a spoonful every day > of pyrolysis oil from pine needles. > > > > This is nothing new. Some years ago the first job of a young bioenergy > specialist in Alaska was to clean up the site of an experimental wood > gasifier that was intended for use in native villages. The classic > Imbert style gasifier had been developed and tested with federal > money for remote power generation. The site was so toxic that it had > been designated a "superfund" site by the Environmental Protection > Agency. That killed interest in gasification in the state for many > years. ..that, may have been the intention. > The Gasification Guide project in Europe didn't seem to address liquid > effluents. Studies of liquid effluents from gas scrubbing have been > done under the IEA Task 33 biomass gasification. > > http://www.gasification-guide.eu/gsg_uploads/documenten/D10_Final-Guideline. > pdf ..if you read this, they _are_ aware of the waste liquid potentials, and those are covered by their own truck loads of regulations. ;o) -- ..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/
