[Terrapreta] Wood harvesting

Jeff Davis jeff0124 at velocity.net
Mon Jul 16 17:19:54 EDT 2007


In the past town gas has been compressed into tanks and sold to people
outside the city limit.

Better to compress a gas that doesn't have N2 in the mixture. So yes it
would be a maybe.

How about a pipeline?


Jeff



Sean wrote:
> How about compressing synthesis gas?  I actually think that much of the
> energy in the off-gas from any pyrolysis reactor could probably get used
> up in automating or speeding of the pyrolysis reaction.  They may be
> little or no BTUs left when the gas is burned for the char processing.  I
> think, too, that the best use of the wasted energy is onsite, providing
> heat, or making electricity.
>
> SKB



>
>   Sean wrote:
>   > They can still take half the
>   > energy as producer gas or synthesis gas from the pyrolysis reaction.
> The
>   > gas can be transported in bottle trucks and burned, rather than the
>   > biomass.
>
>   It just isn't practical to compress producer gas.
>
>
>   Jeff
>


-- 
Jeff Davis

Some where 20 miles south of Lake Erie, USA



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