Dear Jim If I was 20 years younger I'd move to Berkeley in a heartbeat.
But here's a lead I'm following and you might like to also, or I'd love your comments. <><><> Wood consists of 80% cellulose which is easily vaporized, and 20% lignin, which turns into 20% charcoal yield. But it may well be that the lignin is the source of most of the stickier tars. WW II gasifiers converted all the fuel to a tarry mess which had to be cleaned when before feeding an engine. The Toplit Updraft gasifier (TLUD) leaves a 20% charcoal yield, which may have more value than the 70% energy in the gas, depending on whether you have a use for charcoal as a soil amendment and permanent fertilizer. So the TLUD gas may have a lower tar content. If so, co-production of TLUD gas and charcoal could be a better option if you have need of both. We are in the middle of Winter here in Massachusetts. As soon as Spring comes, I will measure the tars in TLUD gas to see if they are significantly lower than producer gas. TLUD gasification leaves a volume of charcoal almost as large as the original feedstock. It could be a very useful filter for the next batch of gas. I'll report progress. Your admirer, Tom Reed AKA Dr. Thomas B Reed On Feb 12, 2013, at 5:36 AM, jim mason <[email protected]> wrote: > Hiring is continuing at ALL Power Labs. We again try to prioritize > hiring from within the gasification community whenever possible, so > hope some here will consider these positions. Even if the current > ones aren't a direct fit with you and your talents -but other > situations would be- tell us of your interest and we'll keep you on > the list for future opportunities. We'll be announcing more positions > soon. > > For the current round we're announcing a rare opening in our core > engineering group. We have so many new projects and products on the > horizon that we need to expand our high level design and management > capacity. We are looking for seasoned multi-disciplined engineers > across the mechanical and thermal disciplines, and/or gasification > specific engineering heroes. > > This is an invitation to replace and/or augment the minds of Jim and > Bear, as the default engineers of APL solutions. This is an > invitation to be a core author and leader of what we do here. Growth > requires that such core authorship is moved beyond one or two minds, > and progressively positioned in multiple sites of high level > expertise. Gasification luminaries encouraged to apply. We will > help with relocations from Europe, Asia or Africa for compelling > candidates. > > More information on this position is here: > http://gekgasifier.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1863-senior-mechanical-engineer/ > > > The second position is for Power Systems Assembly Tech on our > production line. This makes you the guy/girl that mates engines to > genheads, wrangles all gearhead relates issues, and runs commissioning > tests on the results. You need to be at home with arts of rotating > machinery, and the wrenches that turn their discordant mumblings into > soothing song. As these are contemporary engines, electronics are > involved, so you should be comfortable working with such too. > > More information is available on this position here: > http://gekgasifier.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1862-power-systems-assembly-tech/#entry4215 > > If you would like to apply, and our ask questions, please write us at > "[email protected]" > > > > -- > > > > Jim Mason > Website: http://www.whatiamupto.com > Current Projects: > - Gasifier Experimenters Kit (the GEK): http://www.gekgasifier.com > - Escape from Berkeley alt fuels vehicle race: www.escapefromberkeley.com > - ALL Power Labs on Twitter: http://twitter.com/allpowerlabs > - Shipyard Announce list: > http://lists.spaceship.com/listinfo.cgi/icp-spaceship.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
