[Stoves] About ARECOP workshop in China

[psanders at ilstu.edu]

Dear All,

Tom Miles sent me the following info about Dr. Mukunda.  Others might 
also find
it interesting.

Also, please note that MY ERROR had Mukunda incorrectly spelled 
Makunda.  I have
corrected that error in my address book, and I hope others will also note the
correct spelling.

Paul

Quoting Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com>:

> Paul,
>
> Some background on Dr. Mukunda:
>
> http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/discovery/cgpl.html
>
> http://cgpl.iisc.ernet.in/Contacts/HSMukunda.pdf
>
> A report on Dr. Mukunda's (IISc) gasifier in Switzerland
> http://www.gastechnology.org/webroot/downloads/en/IEA/4XylowattPasqualeGiord
> ano.pdf
>
>
> Dr. Mukunda was an early contributor to the stoves and gasification lists.
> We met at an IEA thermo-chemical conversion meeting in Banff, Canada, in
> 1996 (at the same time that I met Ron Larson and Mark Bryden). We have all
> benefited from his creativity and inspiration.
>
> Tom Miles
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org
> [mailto:stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Paul S. Anderson
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:37 PM
> To: GASIFICATION - Listserve; ARECOP - Listserve; STOVES - Listserve
> Subject: [Stoves] About ARECOP workshop in China
>
> Stovers and Friends,
>
> I just got back from the ARECOP workshop in China on Thermal application of
> gasifiers for cottage industry in developing countries.  I will be
> presenting
> three reports that each merits a separate thread of discussion.  This is the
> first one on the Workshop itself.  Later I will send a message about thermal
> usage, and then one on types of gasifiers.
>
> About 25 people attended, with participants from 9 Asian countries, plus 3
> of us
> from the USA.  5 Indonesia, 4 India, 3 Laos, 1 each: Thailand, Pakistan,
> Nepal,
> Sri Lanka, Philippines, and various people from China.
>
> Professor Dr. Makunda (aided by Dr. Dixit) from the Indian Institute of
> Science
> (IISc) was the featured resource person.  He has much experience with
> gasifiers, especially large one for IC engines.  To my delight, he is
> totally
> enthralled with and working on T-LUD (Top-Lit Updraft) gasifiers.
> Interestingly, he had little awareness of the past 3+ years of discussions
> on
> the Stoves List-Serve or Gasification List-Serve about T-LUD gasifiers, nor
> of
> the T-LUD items on the Bioenergylists.org Internet site.  Likewise, I had no
> awareness of his publications and activities.  (But we both know and
> acknowledge Tom Reed's pioneer work on Inverted Downdraft (now called T-LUD)
> pyrolytic gasifiers.)  So we have agreed to keep in touch and be sure we
> cross-fertilize our streams of information.
>
> The ARECOP program is in three parts:  First is this workshop where projects
> are
> defined.  Then those who have selected projects (receiving some ARECOP
> funding)
> will have a year to accomplish their projects.  Finally, in about July of
> 2007
> there will be another gathering to discuss and share the results, to be held
> in
> Bangalore, India (which is the location of IISc).  That should be a great
> event,
> sort of a Summit Meeting about Small Gasifiers.
>
> The 25 participants really seemed to bond together and be interested in each
> others gasifier applications.  We had great times eating Chinese meals and
> going on a couple of field trips (one about energy issues and another for
> pure
> tourism.)  Only one ARECOP organizer spoke any Chinese, so our oral contact
> with the Chinese was quite limited, except for the interpreter services of
> Prof. Pu and two Chinese university students, Michelle and Audrey, who are
> studying English and are very proficient with English.  Our meetings were
> all
> conducted in English, which unfortunately limited the participation of the
> Chinese hosts.
>
> This was my first trip to China, and I was very pleased!!!  The streets are
> not
> crowed and cramped in the cities.  New construction is evident and
> impressive.
> The people are extremely friendly, but not "in your face" (such as with
> beggars,
> of which I only saw only a few in two highly tourist-centered locations).
> Also,
> I felt exceptionally safe and secure at all times and would not hesitate to
> take
> my family members to China.
>
> This message is about China and ARECOP.  Notes about usage of gasifier heat
> and
> also about combustion technology will be in the next two messages.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
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