When one considers gasifier thermal operations, the production of HAP's may occur, but they should be removed prior to engine operation as an example, or else they will foul the engine. If the gas is combusted, the HAP's contribute to the heating value of the gas because they are large molecules and have a good heating value. The method we use for reintroduction to the reactor is very simple, but is considered proprietary.
Sincerely,
Leland T. "Tom" Taylor
President
Thermogenics Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Li CHEN <[email protected]>
To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification <[email protected]>
Cc: François Ricoul <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 3:57 am
Subject: Re: [Gasification] tar Processign

All tar can be burned in the reactor without produce HAP for example? What's the temperature and how inject it?

       Regards,

       Li


Le 12/05/2011 15:55, [email protected] a écrit : We remove the tar from the gas stream and recycle it back into the reactor for destruction. It increases the heating value of the gas substantially by doing so. It is difficult to handle, do any significant treatment/separations or other actions on it to make it useful otherwise.
     Sincerely,
     Leland T. "Tom" Taylor
     President
     Thermogenics Inc.

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     From: vikrant bhalerao &lt;[email protected]&gt;
To: gasification &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 10:39 pm
     Subject: Re: [Gasification] tar Processign

     To , all
      
Can somebody elaborate the usage of Tar (waste(??) of Biomass Gasification) ? Also i would like to explore the viability of Tar process to nano fluid  as Tar is complex carbon compund...
     Thanks
     With Regards,
     Vikrant Bhalerao
     Cummins Research and Technology Inc.
     Mobile +91 89 833 20 725
      



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     Message: 1
     Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 03:14:21 +0700
     From: Robert Kana &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
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     Subject: Re: [Gasification] Charcoal Gasifiers
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     Dear Arnt,
When we distill wood vinegar, actually very little tar comes to the collection tank, rest of the tar either stays in the pipes (has to be cleaned every month). This collection is done while the wood or briquettes are drying in the chamber. Wood vinegar has no tar, for soil enrichment and ph control, it is diluted with water 1/100 or 200. It can also be used as pest control if diluted 1/300-500, just spray on the leaves and fruits.  About 5-10 cc is put in to bath tub to clean the body, it is the main ingredient used in detox pads. When the wood gas start coming out, the chimney which is connected to the retort chamber is closed and we start burning wood gas in retort's fire chamber to keep heating the wood until the gas is finished, by than wood become charcoal. If this wood gas could be harnessed, as Tom says there is a
     huge amount of energy is there.
So far I have tried couple of ways but not successful, and still trying...
     Regards,
     Robert



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     Message: 2
     Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:38:00 +0800
     From: Anand Karve &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification
            &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     Subject: Re: [Gasification] Charcoal Gasifiers
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     Dear List,
we have tested wood vinegar as a pesticide on plants. It works in the case of moderate infestation, but if the infestation is severe, especially with sucking pests such as mealy bugs and woolly aphids, one has to use a conventional organo-phosphatic systemic insecticide. Biochar has never worked in our local soils, which have pH higher than 8.5. Wood vinegar has a number of organic acids in it, which may be used by the soil micro-organisms as their carbon source, so that they multiply their numbers. That the population density of soil micro-organisms is positively correlated with soil fertility, is a known and accepted fact. Therefore, any treatment, which causes the soil microbe population to rise, would automatically result in higher
     soil fertility.
     Yours
     A.D.Karve

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Arnt Karlsen &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote: &gt; On Tue, 10 May 2011 21:12:57 +0700, Robert wrote in message
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     &gt;&gt; Dear Anand,
&gt;&gt; Thanks for the info. I am a charcoal specialist with biomass &gt;&gt; background. I own a small briquette charcoal factory and we know how &gt;&gt; to use barrel to make charcoal. One suggestion, if you have a long &gt;&gt; chimney in the back, slent to chimney 30 degrees, cover the top (must &gt;&gt; be a temporary cover, when the wood gas started coming out we need to &gt;&gt; move the cover to burn the gas), let the wood smoke get cooler and &gt;&gt; put drum on the bottom so you can also collect wood vinegar and teach &gt;&gt; the farmers how to use wood vinegar for soil enrichment, against
     &gt;&gt; pests... Regards,
     &gt;&gt; Robert
     &gt;
&gt; ..how much carbon can be put into farmland soil this way,
     &gt; and the biochar way?
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     Message: 3
     Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 18:43:30 +1200
     From: "doug.williams" &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     To: "Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification"
            &lt;[email protected]&gt;
     Subject: Re: [Gasification] Charcoal Gasifiers
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     Hi Dr Karve,

As this particular line of discussion is relevant to work of my associates, I would like to offer some comments that may be of interest to yourself and others who use the term biochars for soils enhancement. I also have personal interest as a organic citrus grower (in past years), and there is some relevance to put reason behind certain failures.

&gt;we have tested wood vinegar as a pesticide on plants. It works in the &gt;case of moderate infestation, but if the infestation is severe, &gt;especially with sucking pests such as mealy bugs and woolly aphids, &gt;one has to use a conventional organo-phosphatic systemic insecticide.

As an acid, wood vinegar cannot penetrate the waxy type coating of "some" pests. From experience (not with wood vinegar), you need to add a surfacicant, which wets the infestation through it's protective coating. This is a simple as adding a liquid detergent to the spray mix. I have no recommended ratio, but you can see it work when the spray wets the insect. Most phenolic compounds will kill or upset the insect to detach and leave the feeding surfaces.

&gt;Biochar has never worked in our local soils, which have pH higher &gt;than 8.5. Wood vinegar has a number of organic acids in it, which may &gt;be used by the soil micro-organisms as their carbon source, so that &gt;they multiply their numbers. That the population density of soil &gt;micro-organisms is positively correlated with soil fertility, is a
     &gt;known and accepted fact.

If the soils are already containing high levels of carbon or micro-organisms, what you say has relevance, but key here in this type of discussion, is the type of char being used. Most char readily available as a waste stream and dumped as soil enhancement, is of the wrong type to provide a habitat for soil micro-organisms, being made to maximize the carbon content and density for smokeless cooking. This is the type needed for carbon sequestrian to maximize the reduction of atmospheric carbon. Soil bacteria on the other hand, need safe habitats, and this type of carbon is of the activated type, with huge internal surface porosities. Other than providing a habitat, the carbon also provide the means of holding nutrients in soils that might not retain them if applied just to the soils.

     Therefore, any treatment, which causes the
soil microbe population to rise, would automatically result in higher
     soil fertility.

I am 100% behind your conclusion, and hope the work that many are devoting their soil research work, can add to their knowledge from the flow on effect, of gasification technology.

     Hope this might be of interest.

     Doug Williams,
     Fluidyne Gasification.
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     Message: 4
     Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:26:43 EDT
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     Subject: [Gasification] Fruit of my ideas help Mississippi
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     Gasification friends,

It's been a while. Turbulent times for me here in  Dayton, Ohio.  I received a call from John Guthrie a couple of weeks ago.  He told me that he had sold the land he wanted to sell me, to a company that  makes pellets. He said " Katrina took all of our small trees". I thought he said  Pallets and didn't know what he was calling me for. Then he mentioned a chipping  mill now being built there. After I got off the phone I realized you don't need  a chipping mill to make Pallets. I remembered pushing him in 2005 to bring a  wood pellet mill to Wiggins because the pulp market was glutted. He didn't know
     much about wood pellets.
    I did a search on the web and found out what  happened to my need to create a job for my tree shear with the pulp business  glutted. LOL
_http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/5044/enviva-acquires-pellet-plants-e

     xpa
     nds-pproduction_
(http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/5044/enviva-acquires-pellet-plants-e

     xpands-pproduction)

Check it out. Maybe he will send some pellets north on the Kansas City Southern, the railroad company that brought him to Wiggins in 1948. A the time
     Wiggins grew cucumbers and sold pickles.

   You never know what will happen when you start  promoting Biomass
     energy.

        Dan Dimiduk
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     Message: 5
     Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:45:06 EDT
     From: [email protected]
     To: [email protected]
     Subject: [Gasification] wrong article- try this
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_http://biomassmagazine.com/articles/5044/enviva-acquires-pellet-plants-e

     xpa
     nds-production_
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