Wow. Thanks to everyone who offered their thoughts on our efforts!! I'll start working through individual responses, but I wanted to start with a sincere THANK YOU to all of you first.
-brian On Jul 24, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Brian and Cara Paasch wrote: > Hi all, > > We recently started testing our downdraft gasifier. So far we haven't been > able to move from a yellow/red flare to a blue flare. I've searched the > gasification archives and as best I understand, we need more air running > through our system. Is that correct? We've increased the air over previous > test runs but our flare is showing no sign of going from yellow to blue. > > As shown in this video: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6WPlhyOWc&feature=channel > > we have a pretty clean flare, no obvious smoke, but day or night, our flare > is most certainly NOT blue. > > Anything else we should be considering? > > Thanks! > > -brian > > PS Our wood moisture content is less than 15%. > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org > http://info.bioenergylists.org _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org
