Paul, merry christmas & happy new year. Because you suggests Brazil as possible base to spread our word and message I am willing to cooperate. My view is about charcoal pellets producrion from waste sawmill recovering pyroligneous liquid Non Condensable Gas and heat. Hear in Misiones province, Argentine where we are now in Brazil border are sended one million tons of pinus wastes as paper pulp mill consumption yearly without any profit. Only smoke, tar and ashes spreaded over towns where sawmillas are located. My site is Cerro Azul, Misiones, Argentine nazist colony of WWII. They was used gasifiers in fortys fueling Deutz engines horizontal cylinder low rotation. I am planing too to return to Brazil again. Regards Ben --- El mié 22-dic-10, [email protected] <[email protected]> escribió:
De: [email protected] <[email protected]> Asunto: [Gasification] Announcements about BEF Stove and CHAB Camps Para: "GASIFICATION - Listserve" <[email protected]>, "STOVES - Listserve" <[email protected]>, "ARECOP - Listserve" <[email protected]>, "ETHOS - Listserve" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Fecha: miércoles, 22 de diciembre de 2010, 23:32 Dear all, The following is of interest to Stovers, Gasification specialists, Biochar enthusiasts, and all concerned with issues of dry biomass as energy sources, both in the developed and developing societies. The following is actually 3 related messages in simple E-mail format. (The same contents in Word documents are available from [email protected].) All this information plus updates will eventually be at the Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) website at www.woodgas.com (currently being restructured) Three messages below: A. Announcing eight BEF Camps worldwide B. Specifics about the first camp in February (indoors in Illinois USA) C. BEF statement about its intentions and structures of its BEF Camps. General discussion can go to the different Listservs, but please send specific inquires to Dr. Paul S. anderson [email protected] Feel free to forward this message on to others and/or include any or all of this information in your newsletters, etc. Thanks, Paul S. Anderson, also known to some of you as Doc, Dr. TLUD, and Professor ++++++++++++++++++++++++ A. Announcing eight BEF Camps worldwide: The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) announces BEF Stove & CHAB Camps in 2011 (CHAB = Combined Heat And Biochar). (Document date 2010-12-22) (Subject to changes.) 1. The five-day BEF Camps feature hands-on experience plus theory & instruction on gasifiers of numerous types, but focusing on pyrolytic top-lit updraft (TLUD) technology for cookstoves (and larger devices for thermal energy and biochar at the CHAB Camps). 2. At least eight (8) BEF Camps are being planned, including one on each inhabited continent, and one each in Spanish and Portuguese. The schedule (subject to alteration) is: **USA---Set dates: February 7 ? 11 at Chip Energy, Goodfield, Illinois ? Indoors ? See separate details below. Contents include the latest TLUD stoves; Chip Energy Biomass furnaces; Strategy; CHAB production. **Each of the following is during one week between March and September (not listed in order): (ALL include TLUD stoves) **India (hosts & locations being discussed) ? institutional stoves, cottage industry thermal energy, fuel issues **Australia, with Dr. Paul Taylor (biochar expert) near the Gold Coast ? Biochar prod & characterization **Uganda at CREEC at Makerere Univ in Kampala ? cookstoves, fuel issues, PEMS emissions testing **Mozambique with ECPF or WWF in Pemba, TLUDs for reduction of deforestation ? In Portuguese **USA at NESFI in Belchertown, Massachusetts ? both CHAB and Stoves, include policy and research **Europe (hosts and locations being discussed) ? CHAB, residential heating, European issues. **Honduras---Set dates: September 26 ? 30 at Zamorano Univ, Latest TLUD & institutional stoves; Emissions measurement via PEMS, Totally in Spanish **Other prospects: Brazil, Andean region, China, Southeast Asia, West Africa, .Western North America, etc. BEF will consider additional locations that provide strong local support. Contact: [email protected] 3. Every BEF Camp has at least two ?content leaders? certified by the BEF for presentation of its state-of-the-art core curriculum, ensuring substantial experience, dialog and cutting-edge challenges for all participants. BEF will be training and certifying in 2011 additional expert ?content leaders? authorized to conduct as many official BEF Gasifier Stove Camps and BEF CHAB Camps as needed anywhere in the world. 4. Each BEF Camp has a local coordinator for facilities, materials and interaction for inclusion of special topics of interest to stove and CHAB enthusiasts in that regional area. Each BEF Camp has sufficient differences and updates to merit repeat attendance. 5. BEF Camp sizes are limited to 15 to 30 participants (subject to change in special circumstances.) Costs/fees (including materials) are expected to be between US$250 and $500, depending on specific arrangements for each camp. (Excludes transportation, lodging, and most dinners.) BEF Camps may have sponsors that alter costs, content, and selection of participants. For further information about BEF Gasifier Stove Camps or BEF CHAB Camps, contact: Dr. Paul S. Anderson Email: [email protected] (+1-309-452-7072) and Dr. Hugh S. McLaughlin Email: [email protected] (+1-978-448-6414). The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) is a Not-For-Profit entity registered in America as a 501.c.3 organization to which donations (such as sponsorships of BEF Camps) are tax deductible in the USA. (The BEF website www.woodgas.com is currently being restructured.) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ B. Specifics about the first BEF Camp in February (indoors in Illinois USA) The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) announces BEF Stove & CHAB Camp at Chip Energy in Goodfield, Illinois 7 ? 11 January 2011 (CHAB = Combined Heat And Biochar). (Document date 2010-12-22) (Subject to changes.) 1. What: This initial five-day BEF Camp features hands-on experience plus theory and instruction on gasifiers of numerous types, but focusing on pyrolytic top-lit updraft (TLUD) technology for cookstoves (and larger devices for thermal energy and biochar at the CHAB Camps). Attendance is limited to 20 persons; Inquire to [email protected] . 2. Location: In Goodfield, Illinois, (midway between Peoria and Bloomington/Normal at Exit 117 on Interstate I-74), at the premises of Chip Energy, Inc., on 7 ? 11 January 2011. [ Note: The BEF is planning at least seven other BEF Camps around the world in 2011.] 3. Facilities: Inside the industrial building of Paul Wever Construction Equipment (www.pwce.com), allowing the BEF Camp to use a 30 W x 50 L x 25 H (feet) heated bay with worktables, meeting space, and an exhaust system to permit indoor ignition of stoves and larger gasifiers. There is no shortage of materials and tools, including an emissions analyzer. 4. Content: The BEF ?content leaders? are Dr. Hugh McLaughlin and Dr. Paul Anderson (?Dr. TLUD?), with expected participation by Dr. Thomas Reed and other members of the BEF Board of Directors. The core content of the BEF Camps (begun in 2010) will provide the initial hands-on activities to understand and appreciate the finer points of Top-Lit UpDraft (TLUD) pyrolytic gasification. Also: 5. Each participant will have ample time to pursue specific interests, including the making or use of stoves and CHAB devices for specific purposes, such as: a. Residential cookstoves, including the combustion device and the stove structure. Dr. Anderson?s collection of stove types will be available for use and comparisons. b. Institutional cookstoves, in 55-gallon drums or in alternative structures. c. Biomass furnaces: Mr. Paul Wever, co-founder (with Anderson) of Chip Energy, Inc. (www.chipenergy.com) will discuss and demonstrate capabilities and options for the Chip Energy Biomass Furnace (200,000 Btu/hr plus biochar) and also the Biomass Grill/Stove. d. Fuels issues. Chip Energy has a collection of over 50 samples of fuels, ranging from llama dung to briquettes and chips and pellets. Jatropha-seed stoves will be featured. 6. Lodging (not included): A full range of hotels/motels is available 20 miles away (via car-pool) in the Bloomington-Normal community. An additional option being explored is a 5-night ?home-stay? (a bedroom and use of a bathroom) with selected cooperating local residents (requesting a $100 tax-deductible donation to one of several worthy charities.) 7. Meals: Four breakfasts, five lunches, and one dinner (prepared by participants on the cookstoves) are included in the registration fee. Participants have the option to eat together for the other three dinners and have discussions into the evening hours. 8. Fee: From Monday morning to Friday after lunch, the fee is US$400 per person, with possible reductions if sponsors/donors are forthcoming. (Direct any questions about fees and housing to Dr. Paul S. Anderson at [email protected] 309-452-7072 Skype: paultlud ) The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) is a Not-For-Profit entity registered in America as a 501.c.3 organization to which donations (such as sponsorships of BEF Camps) are tax deductible in the USA. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ C. BEF statement about its intentions and structures of its BEF Camps. BEF Camps with Gasifier Stoves and CHAB Themes The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) is launching around the world in 2011 its instructional five-day events called ?BEF Camps?. Each BEF Camp is a structured learning experience, where the technical foundation, practical skills and fabrication methods of constructing biomass-fueled devices are taught. As the Chinese Proverb notes, ?Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.? BEF feels the same applies to gasifier stoves: Provide one stove or only one stove design limits the consumer to that unit. Instead, teach the principles of micro-gasification and the people everywhere can produce stoves appropriate to their unique needs and circumstances, such as fuels, foods, and cultural-economic situations. BEF aspires to teach how and why biomass-fueled devices function and how to apply these design principles to a broad range of circumstances, initiating a sequence of knowledge exchanges that reaches across peoples, cultures and situations. A typical BEF Camp starts with a social gathering Sunday evening, followed by two days of structured learning, building and burning. Typical days are divided between discussing combustion concepts, learning fabrication techniques while building small prototype devices that demonstrate the concepts, and operating the devices on both supplied and locally available fuels. Evenings are either social gatherings (including one meal prepared on the stoves) or additional time to fabricate and operate biomass-burning devices, collaborating in small groups of 2 to 5, and learning from insights and experiences of fellow participants. The final two and one half days feature focused applications of the acquired skills to individual circumstances dictated by personal interests, unique fuels or culturally specific opportunities (often pre-announced for each camp). The instructors work in conjunction with small groups of ?makers and testers?, with supplies available to prototype concepts and verify designs. BEF Gasifier Stove Camp focuses on the theory and operation of Top Lit UpDraft (TLUD) gasifying stoves, based on the pioneering work of Dr. Tom Reed, Mr. Paal Wendelbo, and Dr. Paul Anderson. Covered in depth are the underlying concepts of two-stage combustion ?separated-in-space,? primary and secondary air supplies, and tuning of the performance of specific designs. Building on the foundation of a clean and fuel-flexible source of heat, the fundamentals of heat transfer to cooking applications and designs of ?culturally compatible cooking environments? are covered. Group projects are generally directed to the utilization of unique biomass fuels (seeds, dung, grain hulls and agricultural residues) or adapting stove designs to locally available materials and construction resources. BEF CHAB Camp addresses the broader challenge of ?Combined Heat And Biochar?, where devices strive to generate useful heat, perhaps for cooking but also for other heating applications, and concurrently produce biochar. Compared to typical biomass ash, biochar has residual value as an additive to soil or use as charcoal, thereby greatly improving the attractiveness and economics of consuming biomass. The multiple challenges of clean useable heat and effective biochar shape the camp activities. For further information about BEF Gasifier Stove Camps or BEF CHAB Camps, contact: Dr. Paul S. Anderson Email: [email protected] (+1-309-452-7072) and Dr. Hugh S. McLaughlin Email: [email protected] (+1-978-448-6414). The Biomass Energy Foundation (BEF) is a Not-For-Profit entity registered in America as a 501.c.3 organization to which donations (such as sponsorships of BEF Camps) are tax deductible in the USA. 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