[Bioconversion] Re: Densification

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Les and List,



On Friday 06 January 2006 12:14 pm, Les Blevins wrote:
> Balers are densification machines. 

Think this would be bulk densification, which is a good thing. This spring I 
need to purchase a used square baler and rake for my switchgrass. Burning a 
bale sounds like a good idea, for space heating. Also, it maybe to our 
advantage to save the char/ash to return to the land. One can also use square 
bales for constructing buildings, which I have plans for.

> Bales of paper, straw, stems, leaves, cobs, grass or weeds is 'densified'
> biomass. That's why I designed a furnace that can burn or gasify bales. If
> you really want to you can densify the material further into various shapes
> and sizes of pellets, cubes, briquettes, logs or balls.
>
> Personally I prefer to eliminate the extra time, cost and trouble of
> further densification and just use bales as is. 


My reason is to fuel a gasifier system to run self propelled machines, like a 
farm tractor etc. I plan to build a stratified gasifer and fuel it with 
fireballs. 

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