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Keep this scalable Biochar producing furnace in mind for projects looking to green up their act.

Once C credits happen, plus current price of bulk chars, this scale furance's 85 Lbs char could yield $17 per day ($50 or more retail)

 

A nice"rebate" on the price of wood chips @ $20 / 500 lbs or pellets.@ $80 / 500 lbs

 

Erich

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Paul S Anderson <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:34 AM

Subject: [biochar] Re: [Gasification] can pellet boilers produce char?

To: KELPIE WILSON <[email protected]>, Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

 

 

Dear Kelpie and all,

 

You seek a heat generation device at household or institutional sizes

that leaves the charcoal after pyrolysis in completed. You specify

pellets, but decent wood chips would also be a desirable fuel.

 

Such a device already exists, and is available to be incorporated into

projects that further its development and applications. (It is not

yet for public sale as a commercial product because the necessary

corporate structures and permits require further R&D and investments).

 

The device is the Chip Energy Biomass Furnace. See the basic info at:

Home

The unit shown is currently used daily for supplemental heating of

Paul Wever Construction Equipment, Inc (16,000 square feet industrial

space) in central Illinois. It produces approximately 180,000 Btu per

hour, is fully automated, and in a 24-hour period uses about 500

pounds of pellet fuel and produces about 85 pounds of biochar (17%

yield by weight of raw fuel). It can be adjusted to remove the char

faster, which would increase the biochar yield but reduce the

heat-per-pound delivered to the heat exchanger. The biochar is being

sold for 25 cents per pound to research institutions. All analytical

reports about the biochar properties have been highly favorable.

 

That furnace was developed with assistance from a US EPA SBIR grant of

$70,000 as a prospective replacement for the outdoor wood boilers. We

have documentation on the EPA project and the highly successful

outcome, including very favorable emissions tests. It can operate

unattended as long as there is a fuel supply and the biochar collector

is periodically emptied; control is by a PLC and an array of sensors

plus safety systems.

 

The unit is based on updraft gasification, as explained in the

published document--- "Micro-Gasification: What it is and why it

works." (Anderson, Reed and Wever, 2007):

http://www.hedon.info/docs/BP53-Anderson-14.pdf

 

It is scalable smaller (see the Chip Energy Biomass Grill at the same

website), and can be made larger with multiple gasifiers (but one

control system and fuel hopper) to approach one million Btu per hour,

and can be scaled larger as single units (a topic of current R&D).

 

The Chip Energy Biomass Furnace as currently configured sends its heat

to a flash boiler (avoiding the high pressure issues of steam

boilers). Entities that desire the heat to go to steam boilers simply

need to participate with that expertise in a project with Chip Energy.

Chip Energy welcomes any possible projects into which the Biomass

Furnace could be incorporated.

 

Discussion of the issues raised by Kelpie can be on this Listserv.

But business inquiries should be addressed off-list to Paul Wever at:

[email protected] or phone him at 309-965-2005

 

Paul

--Paul S Anderson, Ph.D. -- aka Dr. TLUD ("Dr. Tee-lud")

Biomass Energy Consultant with BEF, & Partner in Chip Energy.

Specialist in micro-gasification. Office & Res: 309-452-7072

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New Pyrolysis Players

 

QPRJ.OB, Serge Borys's Quadra Projects ;

They are doing demos in China, and have reported starting a fabrication plant there.

You can buy shares in this penny stock

QPRJ.OB: Summary for QUADRA PROJECTS NEW- Yahoo! Finance

 

 

MBOP

They are very excited about their upcoming testing with the first

commercial MBOPs (Mobile Bio Oil Processors) down in Georgia. the first units are going to thoroughbred race tracks,

since they have high negative feedstock costs (they will save roughly

$20 per ton by using it instead of paying to have it hauled away.

 

24 dry tons of biomass per day yields 3000 gallons of bio oil, 2 tons

of bio char, and 4 Million BTU of waste heat.

 

In addition, they have a number of additional units already in plan for

the waste heat. Among these are driers for pelletizing machines.

 

The web site with the article can be found here:

Mobile bio-oil system processes wastes - Biomass Magazine

It also has a link to the company web site.

 

 

CRNE is a British Columbia-based corporation incorporated in 2009 engaged in the business of producing renewable bio-based resources and providing clean energy from biomass wastes through the use of proprietary, patented pyrolysis technology (the "Pyrolvsis IP") and selling licenses to the Pyrolvsis IP. CRNE is presently owned by Zaozhuang Xin Zhong Xing Industrial Company Ltd. ("XZX"), a large, diversified state-owned Chinese company located in Zaozhuang, China. XZX has 19 divisions and is involved in a variety of businesses, including machinery manufacturing, coal mining, forestry logging, processing and importing, real estate and clothing. The proposed acquisition of CRNE is not a non-arm's length transaction as defined by Exchange policies.

 

Moneda Resources Signs Letter of Intent with Canada Resurgence

 

 

 

ZeroPoint Clean Tech, Inc.

A renewable energy technology provider. ZeroPoint has developed a portfolio of distributed biomass energy solutions. Our core technology is a highly efficient biomass gasification reactor that converts biomass into renewable synthesis gas. ZeroPoint's modular multi-feedstock process equipment is built to U.S. and international codes and is priced to create highly attractive renewable energy project economics.

 

Zeropoint