[Terrapreta] Eureka!!! It Flared

[Sean K. Barry]

Hey Kurt,

Will the secondary air reduce the charcoal yield at the expense of releasing more flare-able gas?

You may not give a crap about what I have say, but have you looked at or tried any kind of a down-draft gasifier design?  From what I've read, they produce no soot, nor smoke, and copious amounts of flare-able gas.  Some down-draft gasifiers produce clean enough gas (< 15 ppm tars and soot), that it can be used directly by an internal combustion engine, without a gas cleanup train between the gasifier and the engine.

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: rukurt at westnet.com.au<mailto:rukurt at westnet.com.au> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:17 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Eureka!!! It Flared


  You little bewdie!!!

  Had to replace the bottom of my garbage can TLUD, as the old one was 
  badly rusted and burning out. Drilled a new smaller set of holes in it, 
  to reduce the primary air supply. Increased the air holes for the 
  secondary air supply. Lit it up and she flared!!!!
  Only for a few minutes, but I'm getting there. Need still more secondary 
  air.

  Oh yes, and it's definitely a TLUD gasifier, the flare was some six feet 
  from the pyrolises front. About two feet of flame, reddish tinge. out of 
  a 3.5 inch tube.

  Need some dry weather too, so I can bash up some more dry bamboo as well.

  Kurt
  who is working on a website to show all this to those who are 
  interested. The work in progress will be out soon.


  _______________________________________________
  Terrapreta mailing list
  Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biochar/<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biochar/>
  http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org<http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/>
  http://info.bioenergylists.org<http://info.bioenergylists.org/>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: /pipermail/terrapreta_bioenergylists.org/attachments/20070605/6b68bf1e/attachment.html