[Gasification] Updated Update #2

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Tom & All,


Tom wrote:
> If I'm reading it right,
> it is a downdraft gasifier.

Yes, open top.



> I note that you got a LOT of slag.

There was also a lot of dirt in with my fibres before it was fireballed. I
need to try to wash this out with water. I wonder if that would help with
the slagging?


> Try filling the tube with charcoal briquettes and then running.

I wonder how charcoaled switchgrass fireballs would work? Maybe they would
still slag...




Jeff


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Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA