Last weekend we finally moved all but one of my file cabinets out of my container and into my home, and I've spent my "free" time since then chipping rust, repairing pendaflex folders and having more fun than a kit at Christmas. It has been over ten years since all my files were housed where I live, so I've actually had time to forget some of the stuff I accumulated. The result is a series of happy reunions.
My "Gas Producers" file contains the following which might interest the group: Tiangco, Valentino M.: A Rice Hull Gas Producer (California Engineer, Feb 1989) A chapter entitled: Gas Producers and Gas Cleaning, by J.C. van der Hoeven, extracted from an unidentified book. Looks like 1940's era at the earliest, because it discusses electrostatic precipitators for soot scrubbing. Excerpts from a DoE report entitled Producer Gas Technology Applied to Wood Utilization, by Walter W. Gunkel (DOE/R2/05045--T1, DE85 013568) Excerpts of a DoE report entitled Conversion of Forest Residues to a Methane-Rich Gas, Phase Completion Report, March 1986 (PNL--5798-1, DE86 008519). This study was aimed at developing the use of catalysts to make gasification more efficient. In particular, they were adapting a process developed at Battelle for coal gasification, that involved saturing the coal with CaO at high temperature, to wood and agwaste gasification. The usual Mother Earth News article "They run their truck on wood!" Some articles and news items from Cogeneration magazine on gasifier-based cogen schemes. If anybody gets excited about the above, I'll be happy to scan and post. Marc de Piolenc Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
