[Gasification] Optimising gasification

[Paul S. Anderson]

Quoting "Jonathan F. Pratt" <jonpratt76 at hotmail.com>:
>
> So looking down the road, maybe an infrastructure of high efficiency retorts
> at central plants to process
> wood+various ag wastes first to make syn methane & charcoal, and sell the
> charcoal as a byproduct
> for transportion  & other uses may be viable.
>
Jonathan,

I understand and agree with your comment, but I put things into much-reduced
scale and at the level of impoverished communities.

With the T-LUD (Top-Lit UpDraft) gasifier stoves that give cooking heat 
plus the
by-product (or co-product) of charcoal, the idea is to have the local cooks
combine their charcoal in order to operate a charcoal-fueled gasifier (vehicle
size) to run a genset for the electricity for the community.  We only need
small amounts of electricty for LED lights, computer access to the world, and
to run the small fans/blowers that make the T-LUD cookstoves work well.

Note that this system can run at a constant rate (with some battery recharging
also being done), so the issues of acceleration of vehicles, etc are not
factors.

I hope that those of you who can develop a small gasifier/genset unit (running
on charcoal) will assist with this quest.

The term "CHP"(Combined Heat and Power) is more appropriate for the large
systems.  I would be happy with simply the "P" for electrical Power, sort of
like "SSP" for "Small Scale Power".  The heat loss is acceptable, and later we
can find some uses for that heat.  In many off-grid situations, one 
kiloWatt is
like gold!!!

Paul   (just arrived in Cambodia doing gasifier cookstove work for a month.)

-- 
Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
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