[Gasification] Producer Gas to Diesel

[Doug Williams]

Hi Jonathan,

You asked me:

> As there are several individuals and organizations on this list who either
> already work with gasifiers or are capable of conducting experiments
> with gasifiers maybe some can try or comment on experiments with
> fischer-tropsche production of synthetic diesel or other synthetically
> produced hydrocarbons.

I do believe a splinter group formed around this interest last year, out of 
this Forum. They all seemed motavated at the time, but the first need is a 
quality tar free gas, and that will limit the simple practicality of small 
scale installations.


> Anyone here who has already worked or is working on fischer-tropsche
> synfuels would be an excellent source of input.
>
> These 2 links are an interesting start for someone who can experiment
> with making synfuels from a simple setup and catalyst:
>
> As these following links are from Doug Williams site, maybe Doug can
> comment in detail what the results where of these experiments:

I have reported all that was available from that time. We ourselves, did not 
participate in the actual experiments.

> Maybe Dr. Makunda's gasifier can be utilized by farmers to gasify
> their Ag-residues to make syn-fuels.  As that gasifier appears to
> effectively use ag-residues in their gasifier for power generators.

Be aware, that most, if not all gasifiers originating in Asia, have water 
cleaning systems, but please correct me if I have been incorrectly informed 
on this specific detail. With cheap labour, you can do almost anything, but 
agricultural residues in all their variations, are extreamly difficult to 
make into a tar free gas, and high compression systems need really clean 
gas. So if you disregard the environmental issues associated with water 
cleaning of producer gas, anybody can try a basic FT system.
>
>
> Any takers?

I don't think so :-)

Regards,
Doug Williams,
Fluidyne Gasification.