Kelly,
Very helpful. If you are in an environment with high electricity prices is it worth considering getting to 40F with an absorption chiller and going further with the electro-mechanical chiller? Or does the capital cost kill it? Put another way, would it be better to us your Proton unit (http://www.protonpower.com/ ) to generate electricity to drive an electromechanical chiller, or to use the heat to pre-chill and power to finish? How much refrigeration can you produce from the 250 kWe Proton using either method? Thanks Tom From: Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelly Burnham Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 8:52 AM To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification Subject: Re: [Gasification] Gasification or Pyrolysis + Absorption Chiller for Fruit Tom, There might be an issue with getting down to 36F with an absorption machine. We sold many steam fired abs chillers at Trane and the best we could do was 40F, which was better than the catalogue, so we were going lower than the manufacturer said we could. We.sold a few hydro-cooler chillers for cherries here in the Okanagan and our target LWT was around 30F. We found the best way to get there was a.packaged air-cooled eletro-mechanical (vapour cycle) chiller. My 2bits. Kelly On Aug 14, 2014 9:09 AM, "Tom Miles" <[email protected]> wrote: In the tropics there are needs for making char and cooling fruit. Has anyone coupled a small pyrolyzer or gasifier up with a boiler and an absorption chiller? What sizes and capacities make sense? We’re looking at a fuel input of 2-3 tpd. How much char can I make and what practical refrigeration capacity can I generate? I am assuming that the chiller can get down to about 36 F (2 C). The cooler the better. Thanks Tom _______________________________________________ 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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