Re: [Biofuel] Plastic solar cells using reused plastics and biofuel making

2005-10-17 Thread Joe Street
Hi Pannirselvam; I don't see any reason why the electricity needed for your BD production cannot come from a P.V. source, but in order to make it useful you will need significantly more P.V. capacity than needed for one production run if you wish to have the flexibility to run it at any time.

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic solar cells using reused plastics and biofuel making

2005-10-17 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Since most of the energy for BD production is heating (right? -- I haven't calculated out kilojoules used for different uses), I would use solar thermal collectors instead of PV. Small PV array to run the pumps/mixer etc. Solar thermal collectors are 40 - 80% efficient, so the area will be much

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic solar cells using reused plastics and biofuel making

2005-10-17 Thread Mike Weaver
Piedmont Biofuels in Pittsboro NC used Solar. Works fine. They are friendly - you could call them. Joe Street wrote: Hi Pannirselvam; I don't see any reason why the electricity needed for your BD production cannot come from a P.V. source, but in order to make it useful you will need

Re: [Biofuel] Plastic solar cells using reused plastics and biofuel making

2005-10-16 Thread Pannirselvam P.V
Hi Joe, Keith and ALL The reuse of Plastics (PET) after adequate thermal treatment has been showed to be very good charge transport used successfully together with conventional silicon PV system reducing the cost and may possible to be home made .. Thus significative cost reduction has been