On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:19:45 +0200, Li wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> Dear all, > > I recently tried to burn the syngas produced by my gasifier, and I > just filmed the burning process (please see > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q7_s0RbHIM excuse me for my french). > > Note that the gasifier is just designed and has been never runned > before. So I was happy to see the flame. > > After the experiments, I also found the formation of soot or black > carbon on the surface of the inox tube. ..dry, watery wet or tarry wet soot? .."tarry wet soot" is the goo you need gasoline, turpentine etc kinda solvents to wash off. ..try a fine meshed cloth or paper filter to test your gas. > It seems that yellow flame means that the combustion is not complet. > Next step I want to connnect the gas outlet with a bunsen burner in > order to control the rate of the gas with the rate of the air. ..first fix your gasifier so it produces the tarry or tar vapor free or sooty or soot free gas you want to produce, the burner you have is good enough to burn good gas. ..gasifier sketch or picture links? > How you think? whether this is possible to favorite the complet > combustion or not? > > In fact, this is the first time that I burned my syngas, so I wonder > whether the yellow color indicates the quality of my syngas not? ..it looks like you burn tar vapors, or soot, along with your gas, you could compare it with pure acetylene out of a welding torch, with just enough oxygen to eat the soot smoke. ..try a fine meshed cloth or paper filter to test it. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ The Gasification list has moved to [email protected] - please update your email contacts to reflect the change. Please visit http://info.bioenergylists.org for more news on the list move. Thank you, Gasification Administrator
