[Gasification] Engine knock

[Peter Singfield]

At 11:01 AM 2/6/2007 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>    What about just methane (or rather biogas) in a diesel? There seems
>to be a lot of talk in the trucking industry lately about running on
>compressed biomethane, and I know some people use propane injection in
>their diesels for extra power. Any idea what the compression limits
>would be there?
>   Maybe it would be better to run a digester for the genset and reserve
>the woodchips and gasifier for direct heat of a boiler. Or steam, I
>suppose.
>
>

Fast biodigester -- fed with fresh cane juice (daily) -- high quality bio
methane.

Dual fuel diesel with veggie oil --

And yes -- burn the bagasse for thermal power.

Your in to the Rat fringe territory now!

What can work rather than what fools have faith in working.

Labor issues -- 

It is far simpler to get up each and every morning and cut sufficient cane
-- then press out the cane juice -- then feed a bio methane fast digester
than getting biomass fuel and conditioning that to run a gasifier -- then
stand besides that unit continuously to make sure it works right.

Plus -- running biodiesel and methane means fewer to no engine oil changes.

You know -- that little item that all the gasifier people will not talk
about --

That being how often they have to change engine lube -- and where they will
find all that engine lube??

Coconut oil is a fine lube for a small diesel running clean fuels -- thus
needing no detergents.

It is the little things everyone conveniently forgets that impresses me to
no end.

For you people to the far north where sugar cane can't grow -- think
cattail root -- as feed for the fast biodigester.

Probably works even better than cane juice!!

Put the biodigester in your barn -- the heat so produced will make your
animals much happier in the winters.

On another note -- I was just reading the survial guide to modern america
-- they recommend buying lot's of guns and ammo of high caliber and
teaching everyone in the family how to use them well.

If you need fuel -- just go out and shoot somebody and take theirs!!

Peter/Belize (Happy to be that fringe Rat!!)