[Gasification] Optimising gasification

[Mark & Elena Gallmeier]

Dear Paul,

> 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.

What is the fixed carbon percentage of this T-LUD byproduct char?  What 
size(s) of char is produced?

Best Wishes,

Mark

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:53:54 -0600
> From: "Paul S. Anderson" <psanders at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Optimising gasification
> To: "Jonathan F. Pratt" <jonpratt76 at hotmail.com>
> Cc: gasification at listserv.repp.org
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> 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
> Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office)
> Internet site:  www.ilstu.edu/~psanders
> For my gasifier stoves info, go to:
> http://bioenergylists.org/contributors#Paul_Anderson
>
>
>
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