[Terrapreta] carbonization of wet biomass

[Gerald Van Koeverden]

Michael,

When you say "you get virtually no energy from using 70% moisture  
material" do you mean a)  "net" energy - what you put in minus what  
you get out, or do you mean b) "any" energy at all?

When you say you can use 70% moisture materials, do you mean by  
directly feeding it in, or do you mean that this material dried out  
first will produce enough energy to dry the next batch before feeding  
that one in?

I am under the impression that materials fed into a pyrolysis system  
has to be dried well before feeding.

Gerrit







> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Bailes
> To: Sean K. Barry
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 3:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] carbonization of wet biomass
>
> You can use 70%  moisture in the BEST system
> (Waste paper  slurry)
> But you get virtually no energy from that.
> MA
>
> On 03/09/07, Sean K. Barry < sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:
> Hi Gerrit,
>
> I thought I read that it could handle 50% moisture content  
> biomass.  THat information can be found on the 'terrapreta'  
> website, I think.
>
>
>
>

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