Hi Gasification Colleagues,
As each year passes, watching requests for proven gasification
technology, is like watching the movie "National Ground Hogs Day" where
the main character relives the same day over and over gradually
correcting his mistakes until he gets the outcome he targets (the girl
of course). There is enough collective experience already in the World
to solve just about every permutation of waste biomass use, except how
to handle it's huge volume in the place it where it grows, and for a
price which must equate to practically nothing.
Yes we can as individuals make things that work for our own edification,
but this does not translate to making it work on the scales required by
those just discovering biomass conversion. Far from being a cornucopia
( a Horn of Plenty) it's more the other way of working like a funnel, in
which you have to literally stuff bulk $$$ first, then all the "free
waste" that must reach the funnel without cost. But, we don't really
give up do we?
It's always good to find and refer to what appear to be examples of
proven technologies, but few can really meet their own predictions of
reliability when put to scrutiny. Take a hard look before you part with
your $$$.
This year, I rebuilt my Pioneer Class gasifier down the back shed while
I can still see to weld, and visited the CalForests Biochar maker
project in California in July to commission a hot pyrolysis gas suction
system. We are still trying to stuff a forest into a funnel, so in an
eye blink things can go crazy, a single raw chip is failure! I will try
to get the photo file up on the Fluidyne Archive albeit six months late
shortly.
On the side, I still study and ponder what secrets still remain as
applications for these differing chars, and continue my other life as a
therapist, researching pain.
Best Wishes to you all for the Festive Season.
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.
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