Paul thank you for posting this cross link. I have very little condensate but it is still an amount that I have to deal with.
Greg Manning On Jan 16, 2016 6:20 AM, "Paul Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gasification Listserv and Biochar Listserv, > > The excellent comment by James Joyce (below) did not reach the > Gasification readers. It only went to the Biochar readers. Interesting > for two reasons (overly simplified, but to make a point): > > 1. Gasification for power (engines) is what causes the problem of > contaminated waste water, but those readers did not see the "solution > offered". THEY are the people who could test and evaluate the solution. > > 2. Biochar production (for agriculture and carbon sequestration) has been > proposed to make a filter-char that is to be burned, which is what biochar > production is trying not to do. That is, char as filter for wastes made > by trying to burn all of the biomass to ash. > > Those of us who are subscribed to both lists will see the full > discussion. Let's hope that this is a functional solution. > > (Of course it is better if the nasty contents in the waste water were not > created in the process of making the electro-mechanical power.) > > To James Joyce, I say "Thanks." > > Paul Anderson > > James Joyce wrote: > > Seems to me that the smallest foot print treatment would be to filter the > water through char, gravity dewater and then dry the char to less than 30% > moisture, then combust it at over 1000 deg C in a chamber that maintains a > 2 second residence time for the gases released from the combustion. That > will yield useful heat while destroying the recalcitrant hydrocarbons. In > locations with weather that does not make solar or even bed drying viable, > the process will generate more than enough heat to run a heated air drier. > > After the past mess if dealt with, such a process would probably only > need to be run for a day a week to treat scrubber water from storage tanks > (i.e. never put out to lagoons or open storage where it is of great risk to > the environment). > > The equipment required to do that is far less complicated than the > gasifiers themselves. > > Regards, > > James Posted by: James Joyce > <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > > > Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD > Email: [email protected] > Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072 > Website: www.drtlud.com > > On 1/7/2016 10:45 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Tom, > Thanks for the compliment and appreciation. There were hundreds of "pot" > trials using a wide variety of treatments, extractions, etc. before the key > process was accidentally stumbled on. Other processes have evolved and > include the ability to take sea-water to potable with a fraction of the > cost of distillation or RO. > Assumptions about the tar properties including specific gravity can be > quite misleading. > One aspect of how to deal with the produced water from a gasifier is to > give it the right type of compound definition and once that is reached, it > makes it much easier to treat it. > Sincerely, > Leland T. "Tom" Taylor > Thermogenics Inc. > > _____________________________________________ 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/ > >
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