[Gasification] Biomas to Electricity

[David]

Our industrial forests around here depend on Biomass-Electricity conversion 
to clean up logging waste.  We have two plants in the area.  One is a CHP 
producing electricity for the grid and process steam for a sawmill.  The 
other is a 10 MW electricity only facility using a moving grate system, 
steam, turbine, etc.  This company runs three plants, the largest is a 20 MW 
system that uses a fluid bed combustor to burn the chips.  The current price 
for chips (called hog or bunker fuel) is US$35/ton.

I personally am building a gasifier to get process heat and gas for a 
charcoal kiln system, this will use wood waste from my little sawmill.

IMHO unless one farms trees and processes them, fuel for a gasification 
system will be hard to get.

David Green
"Rootless half diminished"
"A voicing that resolves two ways"

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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 3:55 AM
Subject: Gasification Digest, Vol 11, Issue 45