[Gasification] ..back to defining gasification

[Dries Vansteenkiste]

Why should the goal of gasifiers be limited to fuel production?
If you keep the goals open (fuel, heat, fine chemicals), gasifiers 
automatically distinguish themselves from incinerators

D. V.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jigme Rangdrol" <rangdrol at turboisp.com>
To: <gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] ..back to defining gasification


> 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.
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