Leland, have you looked into what China is producing on Biomass Gasification units?
They grabbed the ball and run with it. Their products are the most advanced and economical I can find on this earth. Just Google it. Sincerely, Werner Rhein > On Sep 5, 2018, at 06:08, Leland Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > The C. E. C. is asking for public comment on their proposal to take forest > biomass and convert to Replacement Natural Gas as a way of reducing the cost > of cleaning up the forests to reduce fire intensity. This could use > gasification, but there are some assumptions which in working with the long > pursuit of the United States Forest Service and other agencies prevent a > technologically advanced process from happening and has been studied for > decades. > The USFS which has most of it's administrative offices here in > Albuquerque had developed an interest in synthetic chemicals because of my > bringing it to their attention. Their employee became the Regional and > somewhat National Biomass Energy expert and was involved in the Range Fuels > biomass to ethanol/methanol project which was a $328 mm failure and set back > gasification and synthetic chemicals business, and the renewable fuels > industry along with damaging the petroleum industry for not being able to mix > non-food based produced alcohol into the gasoline supply. The US EPA and DOE > both saw that the Range Fuels plant would produce so much alcohol that > assuming it would work, created regulations requiring it's usage in gasoline, > then when it failed, the oil companies were still required to do so, and were > penalized some $9 mm/year for not doing so, and they went to court to stop > the insanity and at the last I heard, the court agreed with the DoE. It may > have been reversed on appeal. > It is doubtful if this approach will work because: > 1. Most gasification based synthetic chemical plants are too expensive > because of the lack of innovation in their processes, power distribution and > control architecture, and a list of other archaic processes they have used > without innovation: > 2. No one has a good handle on gas cooling and cleaning which has been > shown to be simple and effective but not incorporated into the industry. > 3. Water treatment is expensive and even the best either continue to dump > the water into prime movers like engines shortening their lifetime or > reducing the power density of the engine, or into tanks that have to be > drained and disposed of in landfills or other unacceptable methods. > 4. The facility needs to be semi-mobile because of the cost of transport > of harvested biomass beyond a certain radius increases the feed cost > excessively. A pipeline quality gas supply implies a fixed facility unless > converted to LNG or CNG which are typically expensive. > 5. Catalyst development has allowed for improved to the point where > instead of a 30% diesel MW product from a Fischer-Tropsch catalyst, newer > ones can produce 80% diesel MW product, significantly reducing the cost of > upgrading to commercially acceptable diesel fuel. Other products can also be > produced including chemicals that are not subject to the wild fluctuations in > pricing as the petroleum recent changes have shown, but are stable over a > long period making financial commitments much more secure about investing. > The two synthetic chemical gasification plants which are reportedly > working do not incorporate these technologies and are hugely expensive. > After watching the continuous stream of failures in the gasification > industry, it is a wonder there is even anyone still working in it as there is > vast opportunity for it's exciting involvement in major operations, but the > clinging to the past processes is a sure recipe for failure. > > > Sincerely, > Leland T. Taylor > Thermogenics Inc. > +001-505-463-8422 > www.thermogenicx.com > Skype: ltt.invent > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Stuart <[email protected]> > To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 4:22 am > Subject: [Gasification] Fwd: Re: Anything going on? > > > > > > > > > > > > > My HVAC education was recently improved regarding heat storage. For decades, > I have been waiting for a system using glauber's salt, but it turns out to be > unstable as well as otherwise problematic. However, paraffin candle wax also > has a high heat of fusion in the right temperature range. 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