[Gasification] Conserve -- Run an Arc reformer now!!

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Kurt

Peter is the one who persists in claiming that arc based reforming is a 
sensible way to proceed. He should have such information. Otherwise his 
posting was irresponsible.

Peter: Could you provide a mass and energy balance to support your 
claims? Also, could you show how much of the gas would have to be 
consumed by an on-site generator to support the process?

Kevin

rkurt at tadaust.org.au wrote:
> Could we look at this energy in/energy out situation from a slightly 
> different perspective, and could someone do the maths please, as I'm no 
> qualified engineer/chemist and would like to understand a bit more than 
> I do at the moment.
> 
> Take 1 kg of biomass, assume a suitable moisture content. Ie CxHyOz.nH2O
> 
> Reform it with arc generated heat. the result will be H2 and CO and H2O.
> 
> How much electrical energy will be required. How much syngas will be 
> needed to produce that amount of electrical energy, using a reasonably 
> efficient generator setup.
> How much syngas will be left over and how much energy will it contain.
> 
> How much energy would be in producer gas made with a representative 
> gasifier from that same amount of biomass.
> 
> Ignore questions of scale and losses. Also the influence of potassium, 
> phosphorus and other nutrients in the biomass. This should give an idea 
> of a theoretical maximum output from such a system.
> 
> please :)
> Kurt
> 
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