Re: GAS-L: Transportation Cost and Storage

["James Fields" <cfields@mail.utexas.edu>]

We are currently investigating using the landfill gas with capstone microturbines.  It may be possible to use the waste heat off the capstone to aid in drying.

 

Cody Fields

----- Original Message -----

From: Kevin Chisholm

To: James Fields ; David Reynolds-Lacey ; gasification@crest.org

Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:08 PM

Subject: Re: GAS-L: Transportation Cost and Storage

Dear Cody

----- Original Message -----

From: James Fields

To: David Reynolds-Lacey ; gasification@crest.org

Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:15 PM

Subject: Re: GAS-L: Transportation Cost and Storage

Thanks for the suggestion.  We hadn't thought of drying the wood before transporting it, but it is the most sensible thing to do.  There is an abundance of landfill gas available to us currently being flared.

 

1: It may very well be that drying the wood "on site" will not reduce your freight costs at all.... generally chip trucks are limited by VOLUME rather than weight; drying the wood "on site" could result in the same "cost per load" even though the weight is less.

 

2: If you have landfill gas available, why not use it in an engine and generate electric power on site???? You would still have about 2/3 of the contained energy for drying, if that was an economically advantageous move to make.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Kevin Chisholm