[Gasification] water gas and IC Engine exhaust gas temperatures

[Ken Boak]

Greg & List,

Have you any figures for the temperature that the hot gas leaves your
gasifier.


Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Manning" <a31ford at inetlink.ca>
To: "A Gasification" <gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] water gas and IC Engine exhaust gas temperatures


>
> Greetings Ken, and list.
>
> Ken, Just a side note:
>
>  I was somewhat dismayed, when doing a test, on a run of bone dry wood
chips
> in one of my gasifiers, the chips where under 6% /Mc but to my amazement I
> was still getting massive amounts of downstream condensate, but no
upstream
> condensate (monorator). I pondered this at length, finally, it hit me....
> The condensate was entrained in the air the gasifier was running on... To
> prove this, I went to the weather records for that day and sure enough,
the
> relative humidity during that run was over 80%. As a second proof, I used
> the same chips in a smaller gasifier, that ran on welding oxygen and
poof...
> the condensate went to the calculated amount per hour.... (Was only
> considering the wood's Mc not the air also..)
>
> Just thought you might find this interesting....
>
> Greg Manning
>
> Brandon, Manitoba, Canada