[Stoves] [Gasification] "ecogas" defined

[Tom Miles]

S.C.  Bhattacharya,

Please send a soft copy of the report to tmiles at trmiles.com It will be
interesting to see what stoves you identified as "gasifier stove" and what
you identified as "pyrolyser stove".

Many thanks

Tom Miles
tmiles at trmiles.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: stoves-bounces at listserv.repp.org [mailto:stoves-
> bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Prof. S.C. Bhattacharya
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:14 AM
> To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
> Cc: stoves at listserv.repp.org
> Subject: Re: [Stoves] [Gasification] "ecogas" defined
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> We prepared a review of biomass combustion under a Sida funded project
> about
> one year ago. I will be happy to send a soft copy of the report to
> interested persons. A hard copy can also be purchased (contact:
> enreric at ait.ac.th with a copy to me in case of any difficulty).
> 
> So far as naming the stove is concerned, we used the terms "gasifier
> stove"
> (in the case where the biomass is nearly completely converted to gas
> with a
> bit of residual char) and "pyrolyser stove" (in cases where a
> substantial
> amount of charcoal is produced as by-product) to reflect the actual
> intermediate process involved.
> 
> S.C.  Bhattacharya
> 
> On 7/14/07, Saibhaskar Nakka <saibhaskarnakka at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I had gone through all the names suggested. I like woodgas / smoke
> for
> > T-LUD stoves (dry biomass) and Biogas for wet biomass. But if a new
> > name is to be given for T-LUD stoves, I would like to call
> > "BIOPYROGAS" BIO is added to the name "PYROGAS" suggested by Ron.
> > Ecogas / Greengas are the names could be more suitable for highly
> > efficient stoves, say with > 30% efficiency.
> >
> > Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
> >
> >
> > > Crispin:
> > >
> > >     1.  I think we need to realize that Kevin was NOT favoring
> > "greengas" -
> > > and I am inclined to agree.
> > >
> > >     2.   After I jumped in with "cleangas", I had second thoughts
> like
> > > yours.
> > >
> > >     3.  Your suggestion below prompts me to also throw in "pyrogas"
> - as
> > > being somewhat more descriptive than the others  (goes well with
> > pyromaniac
> > > also).  Pyrolysis-gas is presumably too long.
> > >
> > > Ron
> >
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