Hi Dick, Impressive project ! ! !
Also an interesting quote below your signature. Any idea who wrote it? Jeff On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 13:14 -0600, Dick Gallien wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On your Mr. Charcoal. Larry Dobson did a design for gasifying brush > with the rr tank I have, but it cost the guy I got the 80 hp. 150 psi > Milwaukee Boiler from, $10,000 to have steam fitters hook it up, over > 20 years ago, so I didn't have the money to follow Larry's plan. > Recently I spent $4500 for welding, knowing that at 80, if I don't > experiment now, the tank will just be another dust collector. In that > the tank is 30' X 10' dia X 1" thick, a 7' X 7' door, at 2200 lbs. was > cut, with a neat, simple hinge, that swings and latches securely, for > unloading biochar, with a skid loader. The top of a 11' dia fuel > tank, that hangs over the 10' dia tank, was cut off, so it can be > easily removed with the log truck. The end of April, when I can get > the old log truck running and more brush comes to this compost site, > I'll start experimenting. > > When I put a 10' dia. tank, 8' in the ground, started a burn at the > base and added brush every 15 minutes, for 6 hrs., until it was full > of red coals, then put a lid on, with only a 4" dia. hole at the top > and obviously no air from beneath, the cover was too hot to touch, for > 4 weeks, there were no visible emissions, just an acrid smell, down > wind and it charred all the brush. I put a 10.5' dia X 16' fuel tank > in the ground and started a fire at the base, which also burned, > where as a 55 gal. drum doesn't burn well, without bottom air, so it > will be interesting for me to see, if with a 10' dia. tank, full of > dry, compacted brush, what a TL, without the lid on and no updraft, > will do, in that with the large dia., it makes it's own top draft. I > assume that if that works, then with another batch, after it is > started, the lid, with the 4" dia hole at the top, can be put on, > which should put the pyrolysis out, but maybe not. > > Will quench whatever, from the top, with compost tea, knowing that > when the door is opened, the ensuing dust and blaze would be > unbearable. There are pictures of the tank on the web page. Would > appreciate any thoughts. Thanks for listening, Dick > > Dick Gallien > 22501 East Burns Valley Road > Winona MN 55987 > [email protected] [507]454-3126 > www.thefarm.winona-mn.us > > Prison bars do the confining, allowing the prisoner a mental freedom > not possible in schools, where an endless barrage of assignments, > lectures, questions and tests, serve the same purpose, under the guise > of education, while distracting as efficiently as the cracking of > whips, keeping the imprisoned from discovering and pursuing their > passions or noticing that there are no real bars------and by the time > they might realize the purpose of their confinement, it is too late. > > _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
