[Gasification] Lesson Learned

[Mark Ludlow]

Jeff,

Do you meat a carbon fiber composite? They are constructed with carbon
fibers in an epoxy substrate. The epoxy would be destroyed way early.
Mark

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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Davis
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:29 PM
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Lesson Learned

Hi GF,

I was told that a carbon high pressure tank could be sawed in half and
used to melt metal. Now I'm not sure if that was aluminum or iron...... So
maybe a carbon fiber grate would work.

Maybe place hight temp rocks around you Kelly style grate....

How about something like dolomite rocks....



Jeff



GF wrote:
> I hav been experimenting with a tubular grate, with a controllable shroud,
> along the "Kalle" design.
> It has occurred to me that I could probably get good service from a
> "CARBON" grate.
> How would it perform, if I made a bunch of carbon washers separated by
> stainless  "wavy" washer spacers?
> Would the red hot carbon give any beneficial effect to the gas making
> process? could it supplement the duties of the CHAR? would it perform
> better than ceramics? Has any one considered "Electrically Insulating" the
> grate
> for the purpose of passing an electric charge through the fire? Are there
> any inventors out there?
> "Ionizing gas" is a rewarding technology. Who has ionized their fire
> lately? carbon is expensive, but every battery dry cell has a carbon
> electrode.


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA

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