James, Waterwide (Waterwide International, Napier, New Zealand) was a promising system in the late 1970s through the 1990s. As a staged gasifier-combustor it seemed to have may potential applications. It is pretty easy to find traces on the net: 1. By the 1990 there were 80 Waterwide gasifiers reportedly in use for crop drying in Papua New Guinea. 2. Recovered Energy Inc., Idaho, states that there were 40 built worldwide. http://www.recoveredenergy.com/d_gasification.html 3. Dr. Don Harrison of Verve Energy (Perth) reported (2007) to Avongro that a Waterwide was used at the Narrogin IWP Demonstration Plant, AU. http://avongro.com.au/Webpages/documents/DonHarrison-VerveEnergy.pdf The Verve Energy Domain www.verveenergy.com.au now forwards to Synergy http://generation.synergy.net.au/ 4. Grege Giese of Infinity Turbine posted a Youtube video (2008) promoting the unit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twXCQIAzesg http://www.infinityturbine.com/ORC/ORC_Waste_Heat_Turbine.html 5. Guthrie Industries Malaysia made it under license (2003) where it was used on rubber plantations. Guthrie now appears to be a consultancy rather than a manufacturer. Now a subsidiary of Sime Darby Berhad The burner was called a "Cycloburner" 6. Andrew Heggie (UK) blogged in 2003 that a friend had built a similar staged combustor. Andrew moderates our improved cook stoves list.. 7. Renewable Energy Corporation (Waterwide) became Salinas Energy Limited, Perth. Now heavily invested in oil. http://www.australianminingcompanies.com/salinas-energy-limited.html It looks like the shell of the company was bought and re-purposed. SALINAS ENERGY LIMITEDwww.salinasenergy.com (Domain for sale) 420 Roberts Road SUBIACO, WA, 6008 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 8 9380 2111
So it looks like there aren't any current producers unless they just dropped the Waterwide and Cycloburner names. Tom -----Original Message----- From: Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Williams Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SPAM: Re: [Gasification] What became of the Waterwide gasifier / close combustion system ? Hi James, Waterwide no longer operate out of New Zealand being sold off and re-branded to some company in the USA. This has been discussed and the new company identified on this forum, but I don't recall who or where they are located. They were making big noises about waste feed lot disposal, so one might conclude they just faded away as their original design only really worked on woody biomass. Doug Williams, Fluidyne. > Our system operates as a close coupled gasifier / combustor, vaguely along the lines of the New Zealand based Waterwide system .. albeit with a completely different approach to materials handling. > > I was asked to follow up on the status of the waterwide systems, however they seem to have gone quiet in about 2005 ? > > Did Waterwide become something else or did the technology "retire" ? > > > Regards, > > James > www.blackisgreen.net<http://www.blackisgreen.net> > > > -- Doug Williams <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ 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.bioenerg ylists.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/
