[Gasification] ..back to defining gasification

[Jigme Rangdrol]

Setting aside the ethical problems just for the moment.

If the goal is to distance your chosen type of gasifier from the black 
brush strokes of the incinerator industries history, a requirement for 
combustibility is self defeating.
In fact all use of the word combustion should be eliminated and the 
definition should be extremely simple and unique.
A better definition for the Pols would be clearly understood by 
non-technical staffers [the folks who actually read the definitions] 
easy for "Experts" to sell [K street type experts] and difficult to pin 
down by anti-incinerators [the enemy].

"A MSW Gasifier uses heat to extract fuel from MSW"  Where MSW is any 
target feedstock.

Ideally it would not even use the word "Heat".

"A MSW Gasifier is a device that extracts fuel from MSW."

Besides the ethical problem, all the gooblygook about temperature and 
mixture and on and on just gives the "Enemy" more ammunition and 
needlessly confuses and restricts the discussion

It also runs the very real risk of painting all gasifiers with the same 
brush so that when one MSW gasifier [or chip or coal etc] fails or 
offends all the rest get needlessly dismissed out of hand - like 
incinerators.

"A MSW fuel extractor is a device that extracts fuel from MSW."

J.R.