[AT] OT Gasifiers

[charliehill]

Steve, that is why I am studying it now.  To see if it's feasible to do and 
if so to start making plans for it before I need it.  I shared this with the 
list for two reasons; to see if anyone here had any knowledge or direct 
experience with gasification and to share it with my friends so you all 
could consider it if you like.

I'm not proposing running engines with it necessarily.  There are other uses 
such as firing a boiler to turn a steam turbine, etc.  There is a huge wood 
engergy plant in my county that does exactly that.   They "burn" waste wood 
to produce steam for our industrial park and they are very successful and 
efficient at it.  I don't know their exact process but I'm pretty sure it is 
not just a "burn".  I have all ideas that they are essentially a 
gasification plant because they have very little stack emissions and their 
by product is something that looks very much like bio char and it is being 
spread on farm land in the area.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother.  I tried to share this stuff with you with 
good intent and all it get back is na-saying and arguement.  If you don't 
like the idea just forget about it and move on.  I know a man that used to 
make a 6 figure salary selling Encylopedia Britanica.  In the early 80's 
some of us tried to tell him what was about to happen to his industry.  He 
refuesed to listen.  About 10 years later they put him out to pasture and 
without about 90% of the pension he had earned.  Things are changing rapidly 
in this country.  If you don't keep your ear to the ground and look for 
alternatives you might get left behind.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Offiler" <soffiler at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Gasifiers


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:28 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> 
wrote:
> The only way I would want use a gasifier to run a car or tractor would be
> the same as it was used in the war, in an emergency. My thoughts on using
> gasifiers are just as you mention Mattias, to use some waste biomass to 
> run
> a generator or to more efficiently produce heat.


Only problem there, Charlie, is that emergencies always happen
suddenly, by definition.  And you can't just "suddenly" develop your
own wood gas rig.  Even the crappy ones that barely function take a
whole lot of home-shop fiddling to get there.

Everything I've always heard about wood gas was quite negative and
that's pure engineering, not counting at all the emotional connections
to WWII.  It's quite messy, the engine runs terribly if at all, and
the gases are extremely corrosive.

SO

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