[Gasification] The rewards of densification

[Ken Boak]

Tom,

Thanks for your description about densification of biomass.

Can you give more details about the blue haze - this is not a term I am 
familiar with,  do you means dense blue/white smoke?

As the volatiles are driven off, leaving the torrified wood, is there any 
means of capturing and exploiting the calorific content of the volatiles.

This seems like a good way to remove the tar fraction of the biomass, such 
that the remaining torrified biomass could be used to produce "engine grade" 
gas.

The waste heat from a diesel exhaust should reach 250C and could be used for 
providing the energy to drive off the volatiles.

regards



Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Reed" <tombreed at comcast.net>
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