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Mikael Sjoblom Take a look at our newly designed Gasification concept.

We have designed and built an industrial Pilot Plant based on gasification of bio fuels in a cyclone reactor. The gas is cleaned in a three stage cleaning process.

Take a look at www.mevainnovation.se



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Added by Mikael Sjoblom on March 11, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

ben Solar Powered Gasification?

From Treehugger

Technology Review is highlighting the efforts of Colorado-based Sundrop Fuels to develop a system which uses the heat of

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Added by ben on March 10, 2010 at 7:29am — 2 Comments

ben Green Freedom: Developing carbon neutral fuels from air and water.

Green_Freedom_Overview.pdf

From the Los Alamos site

Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organi… Continue

Added by ben on March 5, 2010 at 8:14pm — 3 Comments

Ken not available

Got an email from Bloom box energy at this time they are not making systems small enough to power a home. Just commercial units. But they will keep me posted when in the future they become available. Continue

Added by Ken on March 5, 2010 at 6:59am — No Comments

Jeff Mills offgrider 2010


Ben, I've been following your offgrider design and have a couple of suggestions / questions.

1) Is there anyway to hook up a heat exchanger to supplement heating in the winter? What about water, could you pipe water through the system for hot water needs? Seems there is a lot of heat generated, why not use it?

2) What is the average burn time for the 2010 model and what's the average downtime in between charges / ash removal / maintenance?

Great design Ben, your a… Continue

Added by Jeff Mills on March 4, 2010 at 9:28am — No Comments

ben The Mulchifier: A gasifier concept for the use of low quality chips

What to do with those small lousy wood chips that tend to plug up gasifiers?

This is a gasifier design that I have been kicking around in my head out in the shop. It makes use of low quality chips.


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Added by ben on March 4, 2010 at 8:03am — 8 Comments

paul czarnecki ignition for diesels

check these out plugs that run without an ignition system--www.smartplugs.com Continue

Added by paul czarnecki on February 26, 2010 at 4:02pm — 1 Comment

ben Bloom Energy Debuts it's BloomBox


Could this be the energy break through we have been looking for? Bloom Energy has apparently perfected the solid oxide fuel cell for use on both natural gas and biogas. This type of fuel cell is compatible with syngas as well.

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Added by ben on February 24, 2010 at 2:48pm — 6 Comments

jack schettler outdoor wood burner

i have a outdoor wood boiler that heats my home would there be a way to recycle the exhaust into useable fuel for a generator? Continue

Added by jack schettler on February 23, 2010 at 2:28pm — 1 Comment

ben The Stirling Search


Heat engines are the key to unlocking full utilization of biomass, but finding one that A) Works & B) is affordable is another quest altogether.

I had a call with Stirling Biopower this morning and they seem to have a very cool and very large 55kw Stirling eng… Continue

Added by ben on February 19, 2010 at 8:00am — 20 Comments

ben The all new Gasifier Store

We just relaunched Gasifierstore.com with new products including the hard to find: tuyeres, blowers, cyclones, etc. Everything is top notch quality at great prices. More products coming later in the year.


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Added by ben on February 15, 2010 at 9:43am — 1 Comment

ben TREXA electric car platform announces price.

TREXA is an open source electric car platform that puts the power in the hands of designers and engineers to build their own cars. They just recently announced the price for their chassis at $15,999. Considering the cost of lithium batteri

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Added by ben on February 13, 2010 at 6:24am — 1 Comment

ben Attack of the Spammers!

I just deleted two more "internet marketers" and I use the term loosely. I don't know how they find us, but they do and they never send me any spam, so I need your help to identify these losers and delete them. If you are getting spam comments or messages, then don't hesitate to let us know.

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Added by ben on February 13, 2010 at 5:58am — 3 Comments

Peter Laughton Started at last

I am about 80 % completed builing my gasifier, based on the FEMA design, but with a 1 inch air nozzell added to the combustion zone. THis should increase the temperature and prevent tar problems.

I will be initially using it to power a small (3 kva) generator set.

How far from the combustion chamber can I cange the pipe to plastic. Ie when does the temp fall low enough to use plastic pipe?

Regards to all

Peter

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Added by Peter Laughton on February 9, 2010 at 1:31pm — 4 Comments

Andy Berry Making Steam With Gasification

I am just preparing my game plan for my first boiler. Does anyone have any pictures or advise on one they have built? I want to make a small generator run off syngas is my forst goal which is pretty big to me. The penical is to have a steam engine run a generator and heat my home. That is way over my head now, but hey we all had to crawl before w e walk .

Anyway i was just curious if anyone built one primary for steam instead of syngas?

Andy

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Added by Andy Berry on February 6, 2010 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Christopher Robert Gauntley Heat energy of Manure

Andy :
There is a lot of history abour burning Manure.
Early Homesteaders burned Cow Patties for heat as do millions of others even now in developing countries.
Heat value when dry will be at least 8500 btu / lb.

There's heat in that &$%@

Chris
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Added by Christopher Robert Gauntley on February 5, 2010 at 3:41pm — 1 Comment

ben Call me a conformist...

Here is the 2010 Off Gridder. I'm a proud papa.

I gave in to the endless promptings for auger feed, even though I know you probably won't prepare that much fuel or appreciate how many trees it will take to run all d… Continue

Added by ben on February 4, 2010 at 1:04pm — 5 Comments

simon rhodes HOME ENERGY new comer

HI I am new to this gasification process but can see the potenial of this process. I want to try to use this process to heat my hot water/home but would like to do it myself like the members on this site. I like the low emission and how it extracts so much engery from it fuel. Could any members help me diagrams/advise in producing this. Thanks Continue

Added by simon rhodes on February 3, 2010 at 11:26am — 2 Comments

Chris Seymour Microwave-induced pyrolysis

"To everything there is a frequency that excites its molecules best. Just like the 2450MHz frequency magnetron in your kitchen microwave oven which is specific to water (H2O) molecules, hydrocarbon specific frequencies are generated by much higher RF klystrons that actually crack the hydrocarbon… Continue

Added by Chris Seymour on January 31, 2010 at 10:28pm — 4 Comments

Christopher Robert Gauntley Re: Briquetting

Devlin : I think your right on the money with the briquette strategy .... It takes so much less infrastructure and start up capital to do the above .... There are some sites with videos that are amazing in their simplicity .. and the equipment is compact. I was talking to a fellow in Northern Ontario over the last year that seems to be doing what you are. He goes in the bush after it's been selectively cut and grinds up the tops and scrap. He actually gets paid to do that and ends up with the… Continue

Added by Christopher Robert Gauntley on January 31, 2010 at 5:14pm — 2 Comments

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