[Gasification] Reply to: Re: Integration of Ford fuel injection/Producer-Gas (Mark Ludlow)

[Mark Ludlow]

Hi Andy,

It seems like it would be pretty easy to convert those "bricks" into cubes,
if you felt like it. Maple is primo fuel with high density. You're lucky to
have sources of fuel with so much value addition already in-place available
to you. Are the branch trims reasonably dry? What do you estimate the range
of your pick-up is, loaded with wood?

I hope you'll post some photos on the Gasification website...

Mark

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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of andy schofield
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:29 PM
To: gasification at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [Gasification] Reply to: Re: Integration of Ford fuel
injection/Producer-Gas (Mark Ludlow)

Hi Mark,

  I'm using 3"long, up up two inch diameter maple wood for fuel (treetops 
from saw-logs). A sawmill near here, has a pile of cut-offs from 
hardwood-flooring manufacture that also look suitable.

  The mill also produces stove-fuel bricks made from sawdust. They measure 2

1/2" x 3" x 6". I saw the machine which makes them. The moisture content 
must be held low (sawdust from kiln-dried hardwood lumber). Lignin in the 
sawdust, melts from friction when the powerful hydraulics extrude the 
bricks. This binds the sawdust into a single, dense, huge "pellet". 
Fuel-bricks exiting the machine feel warm. They package the product in 
convienient bundles covered with paper. Suggested retail price is $225/ton.

One ton equals a full cord of firewood, but occupies half the space. It may 
make a wonderful motor-fuel, if jumbled loosely within a monerator.

Andy Schofield
Great Lakes Renewable fuels

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