Dear David It sounds like you have an ideal situation for wood power. You've got the wood. As far as I know the APL gasifier has a good reputation. But they can tell you what specs they want to put on the wood fuel.
Good luck, keep me posted. Tom Reed Thomas B Reed 280 Hardwick Rd Barre, Ma 01005 508-353-7841 > On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:27 PM, David Coote <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 23/09/2014 4:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > Do you have any reports or similar available from the testing you mention > below on the APL systems? > > And even if the sawmill was using a lot more power than (20 + 10) kWe I would > have thought that if the mill is out in the boonies somewhere it would be > paying a lot/kWh for electricity. So even 30kWe would be useful. Especially > since they have biomass available onsite. Was there another issue such as > getting the chip characteristics correct? > > Thanks > > David > > >> Message: 4 >> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:20:58 -0700 >> From: "Tom Miles"<[email protected]> >> To: "'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification'" >> <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Gasification] : Borealis / Spanner RE2 CHP >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Thomas, >> >> >> [snip] >> >> We need to distinguish between small gasifiers intended for intermittent use >> or daily power only and gasifiers like the Spanner that are intended for >> continuous generation. We bought 10 kWe and 20 kWe All Power Labs Power >> Pallets in 2011 and after testing them at a university we installed them at >> a sawmill in Alaska in 2012. (The mill hasn?t used them because they were >> too small for the mill loads and we haven?t gotten them relocated to a >> village where they could be useful for small laods.) APL has probably built >> a couple of hundred 20 kWe power pallets since then. The APL power pallet >> makes a nice clean gas at a low capital cost. Like the small Ankurs and >> their clones they are batch fed and are probably used a few hours per day. >> >> >> >> 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
