[Gasification] Help with Heating Gasifier design (Starting to getconfused)

[Steve Carroll]

The drawings are just crude sketches to get the idea across quickly.  The fan does need to be on the exhaust side though but only after the heat exchanger that I omitted from the sketches.  My hopes are that this design will burn cleanly enough that the fan will only see smoke and tar during start-up and shut-down.  Even then, any tar will probably condense on the heat exchanger walls before it gets to the fan.
   
  Steve


  Does the fan need to be on the exhaust side?

I'd imagine that it gets covered in tar after a while and can corrode or even seize the moving parts of the fan.

I yield to the experienced members of this group.

:-)

Mike.


Steve Carroll wrote:
I just posted them here: http://luxthreads.tripod.com/gasifier.html

Sorry about the attachments. I thought that attachments were allowed but I can't find anything on how to go about sharing pictures on the list or about general etiquette and rules.

Thanks for your patience,
Steve


No drawings attached Steve, can you please resend with drawings so that I 
can have a look at your set up? Thanks.

Shaun.

[snip]
_______________________________________________
Gasification mailing list
Gasification at listserv.repp.org
http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org
http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/gasification


 		
---------------------------------
How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low  PC-to-Phone call rates.