[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

[James Mackessy]

Andre, they are actually doing that at a plant east of here. The engineer
there came up with
the idea, and they partnered with a combustion outfit to make up the
gasifiers and burners.
They are using it on some older Erie City 200 HP boilers. There are
grinders, conveyors,
and all sorts of automation, PLC's run the whole thing, using VFD's for
motor speed control.
It's the most sophisticated thing I've seen in a while!
Jim Mackessy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre' Blanchard" <andre at usermail.com>
To: "Steam-engine mailing list" <steam-engine at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion


> At 08:00 AM 10/5/2005, you wrote:
> >Hi Eric!
> >  Good to see you here, I remember seeing some of your posts and pictures
> >back in 1999 on the stationary engine
> >mailing list. I am into stationary engines also, present personal
projects
> >are an 8 x 12 sidecrank engine I believe to be a
> >Bigelow & Co. from New Haven, CT, and a 3 x 4 bottle engine built by a
man
> >named Nathan Jarvis in Oneida, NY. On the museum side, we have an 18 x 36
> >Rice & Sargent Corliss Engine, 19 x 24 Ames Unaflow,  40 HP Nagle center
> >crank,
> >7 x 7 New York Central Iron Works vertical bottle engine, 5 x 6
Sturtevant
> >horizontal, and several others.
> >    We are using a 100HP Cleaver Brooks package boiler at the museum,
> >partially because we do not have enough members to go around, so the
> >"automatic" type of operation leaves the fireman free enough to answer
> >questions and talk to the public in between keeping an eye on the boiler.
> >Recent fuel prices have us watching for a solid fuel fired HRT, as we do
> >have plenty of firewood. You can see our project at:
> >http://www.eriecanalcamillus.com
> >
> >Regards;
> >Jim Mackessy
> >Camillus , New York, USA
>
> How about running the wood thru a gasifier and piping the producer gas to
> your current boiler?
> Filtering cleaning and cooling the gas can be a problem if you are going
to
> burn it in an engine (ICE) but burning in a furnace of a boiler should not
> be near as much of a problem.
> Here is an archive of an email list on gasification.
> http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/gasification/
>
> A google search for lots more info.
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=%22producer+gas%22+burner+boiler&btnG=Search
>
>
> __________
> Andre' B.  Clear Lake, Wi.
>
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