[Gasification] making pellets

[Jeff Davis]

Hi John,


On Monday 04 September 2006 10:10 pm, John G. Flottvik wrote:
> In a commercial application where you need to dry several ton of biomass
> per day, (in our case 40 TPD)

Now that's a lot of drying!!!!!!!!


> a week of solar drying just would not work. 

It would if you were only using the biomass/fireballs for cooking. Different 
strokes for different folks.


> In the comment of not wasting to much energy on drying your stuff,,, our
> dryer is incorporated into the system, taking hot air from the reactor thus
> pre-drying the material at the same cost it takes to run the reactor.

That's why I'm thinking of the Bisschop engine (I'm a small potato operator) 
1/3 hp (same as my cement mixer) of motion to power the agglomerator and all 
that heat for drying.


> That said, let the ideas flow so we can make a difference in a fossil fuel
> world.

Here, here!


Jeff



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