GREETINGS all of you.... Yes to the silica removal (Tom) active hearth.
And Pete, I remember your running grass.. Both of you, the active hearth I'm running should take care of any cinter or clinker, it is however a test hearth with only a perceived result. only testing will tell for sure. Greg On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Pete & Sheri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Greg. > > I probably shouldn’t be butting in on the experts, but I did try “straw” > (actually grass hay) in my JXQ-10 gasifier once, back in 2012. After all, > that’s what it was mainly designed for. > > For any “newbys” not familiar with this small Chinese gasifier made for > cooking a meal, just google “JXQ-10”. > > Anyway, I dug back into my archives and here’s a snippet of what I had to > say about that (flaring only) run: > > > > “I had decided to try using chopped up "straw" as the original JXQ-10 > instructions had suggested. I chopped up enough grass hay to fill two 5 > gallon pails with one to two inch long pieces for this purpose. The hay was > tightly packed into the pails. That only produced about 4 pounds of hay. > > There is a LOT of labor in doing this chopping. I won't do it again, > but I wanted to see how it would work. > > I fired up using the hay and it was GONE in a few minutes! I did, > however, get some pretty high temperatures. I immediately switched to wood > chips.” > > > > After the test, using the chopped hay and, later, wood chips, I recorded > the following: > > “I think we are seeing about the best we are ever going to get from this > machine in the "normal" mode. The "normal mode", to me, is when the > machine is used to produce cooking gas for the 2 burner stove that came > with my unit.” > > > > Later on, of course I did many woodchip runs with and without using the > gas in an engine. But I never used staw or hay again. > > > > Pete Stanaitis > > ---------------- > > > > *From:* Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *Greg Manning > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 26, 2017 10:57 AM > *To:* Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification > *Subject:* Re: [Gasification] Straw Fueled CHP > > > > Greetings Doug and list, > > > > I hope all is as well as can be as we all age like fine wine. > > > > In the interest of the original post about straw gasification, I am going > to attempt a sample run in my latest unit out of curiosity, I think going > the route of cubed wheat straw would be the way to go, what are your > thoughts on this ? > > > > Greg Manning > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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