[Gasification] Still on Tar!

[Ken Calvert]

Dear Jeff and all,
                             When you start talking about tar beaters, thats 
the centrifugal blowers that sucked the smoke out of   old 'updraft' 
producers and impacted the rather more solid smoke particles that came from 
them  and threw them out of the system, the book, might have been writtin in 
1944 but it was quoting from about as far back as you are!  That was from 
the really bad old days when those big  24" piston 300rpm gas engines were 
the latest and greatest, and  the only uses for petroleum 'rock oil' from 
seepages was 'snake oil'.
Like I have said before, the usual way to measure the clearances on those 
engines was whether or not you could slide a shilling down beside the 
piston.  Sure they ran on crude coal gas straight out of the retorts. They 
could run on anything!  The water that they used to cool the gas  they 
bottled and sold as "Jeyes Fluid".   Kill a horse at 50 yards.
If it wasn't already dead from all the phenolic carcinogens.   Ken C.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Davis" <jeff0124 at velocity.net>
To: <gasification at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: [Gasification] Issues of Tar


> Dear All,
>
> Two snippets from to old but fine books. This tar is from coal not 
> biomass.
>
>