Re: GAS-L: Re: small-scale gasification , rankine combo

[jerry dycus <jerry5335@yahoo.com>]

       Hi Paul and All,
--- "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders@ilstu.edu> wrote:
> At 06:59 AM 6/20/02 -0700, jerry dycus wrote:
> >       Hi All,
> >          I agree that small gasifiers should be
> here (discussed on 
> > Gasification List).
> >There is a good sized for gasifiers for a 1.5 to
> 10hp
> >motors for making electricity while heating the
> >building making it almost 100% eff with the
> electric
> >savings paying for the engine, gen and fuel.
> 
> Does anyone have a full (or partial) list of
> commercially available SMALL 
> gasifiers, their costs, and their capabilities.  
> What is the smallest that 
> is commercially available?
,   I know of none. Unless you include pellet stoves.
    Could a pellet stove be turned into a gas
generator?
    If an availible pellet stove could be modifed to
just make the gas for an ICE rather than making it and
burning it itself would give us a good fuel feed
system.  

> 
> >       Most needed is a unit that can be started
> then
> >left to burn for 12hrs. Is there a simpler way than
> >using pellets and a feed auger?
> 
> Tom Reed and I are working with "batch feeding" and
> can get a sustained 
> burn for 40 minutes without much problem.   But we
> have not made a 
> large-batch unit, so we do not know the impact of
> the height that is 
> essentially filled with pellets.   One of many
> experiments waiting to be tried.
     Maybe a big say 24' dia storage chamber with a
bottom cone down to say 2" or 3"  pipe leading to the
gasifying chamber.   
     Twice as big for chips with stirring to keep
clogging down.
              Thanks,
                   jerry dycus

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