[Gasification] Got you calculators handy??

[Art Krenzel]

Mark,

Those microbes already exist as algae.  Algae wants dirty water , CO2 and 
sunlight - what better feedstock for this process than AD effluent?

Art

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Ludlow" <mark at ludlow.com>
To: "'Art Krenzel'" <phoenix98604 at msn.com>; 
<gasification at listserv.repp.org>; "'Peter Singfield'" <snkm at btl.net>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: [Gasification] Got you calculators handy??


> Art,
> Thanks for the reply. I have read about microbes that have varying tastes 
> in
> chemical nutrition, for instance see:
> http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/MB451/lecture/euryarchaea/lecture.html
>
> Is it too much to expect some kind of "engineered" microbe(s) with a
> voracious appetite for biogasifier exhaust?
>
> Best regards,
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Art Krenzel
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: gasification at listserv.repp.org; Peter Singfield
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Got you calculators handy??
>
> Mark,
>
> I forgot to add on my previous posting that methanogens live primarily on
> acetates rather than carbonates.
>
> Art Krenzel
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Singfield" <snkm at btl.net>
> To: <gasification at listserv.repp.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Got you calculators handy??
>
>
>> At 10:00 PM 3/25/2007 -0700, Mark Ludlow wrote:
>>>Art,
>>>
>>>Now I'm wondering if the output of a gasifier would possibly suit the
>>>metabolic needs of certain methanogens. Certainly the CO2 would be useful
>>>as
>>>would the H2 and possibly the acetic acid (if it exists).
>>>
>>>Are you aware of any such scheme for anaerobic digestion?
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>
>> Belize Tom Taylor had something working along those lines a while back??
>>
>> Peter / Belize
>>
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