Wood gasification demo in Germany

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The October 2002 edition of Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide magazine on page 
10 has an article on a demo plant in Eckernforde, Germany, by Sr. Franz 
Hirschbichler.  This plant is producing wood gas from chips, cleaning the gas 
and fueling an internal combustion engine.  The use a MDE turbocharged v12, 
1.83 L/cyl, S1 Leanburn gas engine adapted to wood gas.

There seems to be some additional work required to get the plant operating as 
planned although they consider the demo to have proved the concept of wood 
gas for a CHP plant.

C. Van Milligen
Kentucky Enrichment Inc.
CAVM@AOL.com