[Steam-engine] New guy's sugestion

[Andre' Blanchard]

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


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Andre' B.  Clear Lake, Wi.