[Gasification] Gasification and ethanol production from biomass

[Peter Singfield]

At 09:03 AM 6/1/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark Ludlow wrote:
>   And, BTW, getting 100% is not really all that difficult for
>individuals -- ask the guys who make anhydrous ethanol to use to make
>biodiesel. It's definitely doable in the backyard, and not too expensive
>to set up.
>-- 
>Harmon Seaver


Anhydrous ethanol is the preferred "product" if it can be indeed achieved
on micro scale.

Sounds like it is being accomplished -- can you supply more leads??

The main reason "anhydrous" is preferred is because it can mix with
gasoline and be used as fuel -- as is -- in any modern vehicle then -- as
Harmon just demonstrated.

(oh -- also can be mixed with diesel fuel and run in a normal diesel engine
-- no9 changes required!!)

Aguahol requires major changes in the IC engine to run efficiently. And
will not mix with other fuels. That engine become mono-fueled for aguahol
only after.

Theoretically -- in this area -- small farmers could deliver cane to a
small centralized factory that would then produce power and portable fuels.

There is no reason that compressed bio methane can't eventually replace
butane for cooking purposes either. A small factory could support the cost
of the compressing process -- extracted food grade CO2 always has local
economic value -- the soft drink industry.

Thus this even becomes on topic for the stovers!!

Peter/Belize