[Gasification] Gasification in India and China

[Thomas Reed]

Dear Paul, HSM and All:

I hope Paul will visit the gasification workshop in China and report 
back to all of us who can't be there on the real progress in 
gasification.  Thanks for the heads-up, below. 

I know Prof. Mukunda very well and have been to his Combustion, 
Gasification, Pyrolysis lab three times.    Please give him my regards 
and tell him I'm still working > hrs/day on gasification, especially our 
80 kW "minigrid" gasifier for 4 villages along the Amazon.  Make sure he 
knows that his "char air" was an important part of our thinking in the 
new system.  We sell his book on gasification, "Biomass to Energy" on 
our website.

Another giant of gasification in India is Prof. P. P. Parikh who has 
just retired from running the gasifier engine lab at IIT Bombay.  I hope 
she might join our gasification network and give us the results of her 
many tests and theses. 

I was very jealous of the adequate funding and staffing that Profs 
Mukunda and Parikh enjoyed relative to what I had at our National 
Renewable Energy Lab.  All the best equipment and lots of technicians 
and engineers.  India was and is serious about alternate fuels.  The US 
has had the money and the brains, but not the need - so far.  India has 
the need, the brains and the money and will probably be far ahead of us. 

There is also a serious comitment to gasification in China where I have 
lectured. 
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I recommend that all members of the gasification group should read 
Mukunda's biographical sketch at

http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/discovery/cgpl.html

I hope Prof. Parikh will wish to write a similar summary.

Yours truly,         TOM REED                 MODERATOR




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Subject: 	You are favorably mentioned
Date: 	Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:56:14 -0500
From: 	Paul S. Anderson <psanders at ilstu.edu>
To: 	Thomas Reed <tombreed at comcast.net>
CC: 	bobkarlaweldon at cs.com
References: 	<19410.152.50.3.3.1150256079.squirrel at www.velocity.net> 
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Tom,

Have you seen this?

http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/discovery/cgpl.html

Do you know Dr. Makunda?  He will be at the gasification workshop in 
China, that
I am trying to attend, late July.

Also, cousin Bob mentioned a family reunion during early August (like 2 to 6
Aug??).  Will you please come to Illinois and also have a serious visit 
with me
and my partner about our gasification advances?

Paul
-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
For my gasifier stoves info, go to (below) and click on my name:
http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/contributions.html

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