Gasification Archive for November 2001

Lots of wood 10 in diameter -- say 45 ft tall.

Say and average of 8 in diameter -- 30 ft tall.

Very dense. Large percentage hard woods.

How many tons per square mile?? Anyone??

Guessing -- 75 tons per acre??? (Please correct me!!)

640*75= 48,000 tons per square mile.

Say a swath 15 miles wide by 30 miles long (I am quite sure that is well on
the modest side) 

15*30 = 450 sq.M * 48,000 = 21,600,000 tons.

If we harvested that at a rate of 1250 tons per hour -- 10 hrs per day = 50
years!!

12500 tons per day -- 1728 -- 4.73 years

We got maybe five before bad rot. Make it 1500 ton per hour.

Local harvest would come in at $10 US per ton (present price of firewood here)

We have unlimited labor to apply to this operation. They use machete and axe.

How do we pelletize this?? From Chips or hogged wood??

How much would it cost to do this -- prepare whole wood for the pellet
machine?? How much per ton??

What do you figure the price of pelletizing per ton would be here in Belize
(electrical power = 18 cents US per kwh -- good place for some of your
systems Tom -- just to run the pelletizers -- and the rough wood processing)

What would the price be for this product dock side??

Maybe -- just maybe ---

21 million ton * $60 ton (Only!!) = $1,260,000

Hey Tom (and all the rest of you guys out there looking for business) --
worth investigating or not??

This would certainly put this country back on its feet (250,000 population)
and give something to do for the over 18,000 Kekchi Maya that live
subsistence style in the Toledo district -- until they can have their
forests back.

A good job that does a lot of good for everyone concerned! A win-win-win
situation!

How do I contact the European community? Certainly -- they could help
greatly in this matter by simply being a market for this product??

Andries -- Arnt -- what say?? Help some starving Maya Indians (our country
is broke) -- be green (better pellets to CO2 than lots of methane from
rotting) -- set back global warming by replacing coal with biomass.

Your Company alone could save the entire country of Belize.

But here is the crux of the matter -- how much would those pellets be worth??

I could supply all the raw wood you needed -- delivered from up to 30 mile
radius -- for a cost of around $20 US per ton and less (for closer)

Would it be worth the processing into pellets and shipping to Europe??

We have an excellent deep water port right there!! Big Creek is the name.
This is where the large banana boats load up -- banana for Europe!
(Unfortunately -- greater than 95% of that industry was destroyed in this
hurricane)

Excellent land at Big Creek for building a large wood processing plant/yard.

Can this be done listers??


Peter Singfield -- Belize

At 04:22 PM 11/1/2001 EST, you wrote:
>Dear Peter et al,
>    The biomass will be higher in ash content as the organic fractions are 
>not necessarily leached, but oxidized and to some degree, leached. After a 
>period of time the only thing left will be ash portion of the biomass as the 
>rest will oxidize and be lost. Ash is a mixture of aluminum, iron, silica, 
>and are quite stable in relation to other components such as the organic 
>fractions. 
>    Wish I had an easy answer for reviving the industry or making an 
>investment for recovery of the biomass. It will end up in the atmosphere as 
>CO2, some methane and the usual components and the water and soil as organic 
>compounds. 
>
>
>Sincerely,
>Leland T. Taylor
> President
> Thermogenics Inc. 
>7100-2nd St. NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107 
>phone 505-761-1454 fax 505-761-1456
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