Re: GAS-L: Gasification for combustion?

[Reedtb2@cs.com]

Dear Martin and all:

This question keeps coming up.  

It is difficult to burn wood, biomass, with the correct air fuel ratios and 
control, since solids don't mix with gas.  Can't burn wood in engines.  Can't 
cook well.  We have had solid and wood fuels for 100,000 years and there 
wasn't a lot of progress.  

Then 200 years ago we learned to make gas from coal and wood.  By 1850 London 
was largely gas lit.  By 1900 many cities had gas generation plants, gas 
cooking and much of our power was generated in engines burning coal gas.  

Gas combustion is elegant;  solid combustion awful;  gasification is easy;  
DO IT.

TOM REED            BEF/CPC


In a message dated 1/31/01 6:01:40 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
adorni@tee.uni-essen.de writes:


> Dear all,
>
> I have been following your discussion for a while and there is one thing
> I can hardly understand. Some of you want to gasify biomass to burn the
> gas for heat generation for a steam cycle. I can't see the advantage
> compared to biomass combustion. So, why do you want to gasify the
> biomass previously?
>
> Regards
> Martin Adorni