Doug and all,
You can count me as "in" to assist where appropriate. Main topics for
me include:
A. The production of electricity via char-gasification gases into IC
engines.
B. To better understand the amounts of heat wanted for the drying
processes.
C. Need to know about the types and amounts of biomass.
This Gasification Listserv is certainly a good place to have further
discussions.
Paul
Doc / Dr TLUD / Prof. Paul S. Anderson, PhD
Email: [email protected]
Skype: paultlud Phone: +1-309-452-7072
Website: www.drtlud.com
On 5/1/2018 4:40 PM, Doug wrote:
Hi Gasification Colleagues,
While we can "collectively" offer Mr Feinstein just about everything
for his project from a commercial perspective, his project description
clearly states that they wish to develop cheap low cost solutions to
become locally manufactured. These are the things that bother me
regarding their concept objectives.
1. If he imports a Intern Engineer for $500 a month, just how much
real value could this person offer for such a short term contract?
2. Making charcoal, no problem, but easiest and cheapest option
reduces waste heat collection or close coupled combustion for driers.
3. Quality of charcoal for power generation is OK for the cheapest
char making option, but this is not the quality found in activated carbon.
4. Steam is required for blanching the product, so a low cost boiler
is a necessity, along with water treatment, the main factor of boiler
efficiency, even cheap ones.
5. Steam blanching has an issue of toxic waste water, and in a rural
location, ground water will become contaminated unless treated. Do
they know about this and who will monitor the ground water?
6. Maybe activated carbon can be used to clean up the waste stream,
but it would be purchased, as a cheap char option does not create the
type of temperature or steam pressures to make it.
7. No indicative amount of power generation is stated, but one might
think it would be at least 15-20 kWe given that motor start-ups on oil
extruder's etc, need power generation reserves. Cheap generators can
be an expensive low cost solution, especially if any computers become
part of the process.
Start-up rural projects like this have a history which tell us not to
reinvent the wheel yet once again. The easiest way to do this is to
offer unpaid enthusiastic help to the selected engineering graduate,
and this open Gasification list offers a good way to do it., So who is
in, what can you offer Mr Feinsteins team?
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.
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