Doug, Hi! Yes this was the original project that got Lome 3 interested in
the first place. And you are quite right they were a pack of SOBs. They
decided that our supply of Laecaena scrub wasn't able to be fully analysed
and its growth stats recorded. So we had to clear ground and put in a
dedicated plantation, with fertiliser??!! We never got the MOWOG that was
promised. Don't really know what we would have done with it anyway. The
latest that I heard was that Rod Newell, who is still over there, and got a
trip back to the Belgium manufacturers about three years ago had arranged to
do a recondition and resite it at the Anglican High School on Pentecost.
Is that where the groups you mention are working? Ken C.
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From: "doug.williams" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"
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Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Drying fuel with IC exhause and
otherpleasures...
Hi Ken and Colleagues
You really stirred up my memory about your time in the Pacific, and I know
I have all your letters in my box files.
When you talk about this High School project and all the innovation you
had to do, was this before the E.U.Lome3 funded project at the same place?
A pile of $$$ was spent there on a tractor trailer amongst other things,
and the specifications set for the project, included fuel drying
capability. In fact, they were asking for the Moon at that time!! We spent
a lot of money to meet their requirements, but were advised we were not
eligible until they had all our documentation. (That is a story I will
write up one day).
In the last two years, I have had two Christian groups wanting to
resurrect that project, and an American Fulbright Research Fellow working
out of New Zealand, who visited the project site in 2009. Nothing remains
of the installation, and the site is stripped clean of anything useful.
The School still runs on diesel. His study was to assess the ability of
supplying grid power to the main city grids.
With no money of their own, no direct ownership of the equipment, and no
capability to maintain stuff without people like yourself involved, one
wonders why these projects ever got off the ground. At least some of those
old students from your time, appreciated the role that gasifiers can play,
as some wrote to me from their communities seeking funded help to build
gasifiers locally. It did not happen.
Regards,
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne.
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