The new Version 5.0 GEK Gasifier and Power Pallet:
The response to our pre-holiday announcement of the new v5.0 GEK Gasifier and Power Pallet has been tremendous. Already most of the first quarter has been sold out – and much of it in multi-unit chunks for larger projects. And we’ve also realized there is an even higher than usual interest in the nitty gritty details, given the notes we’ve received back from our first run through on some of the new features and design elements. We’ll continue to explore those details in coming GEKNews editions as our documentation develops.
As a reminder, the v5.0 represents a fundamental leap forward in our core gasifier technology, incorporating all we’ve learned over the last five years of development and deployment. For you, this means a significant advancement in performance, ease of use, and cost of operation/maintenance–many are now seeing a likely cost of power produced as low as $.10USD per kilowatt hour. In our first GEKNews about this release, we detailed the first of eight bullet items on the improvements and new features list. You can read that rundown here: http://www.gekgasifier.com/news/v5.html and the full bullet point list below.
But as we said, there are just a few spaces in our production queue remaining for the first quarter, and quite a bit to go through in this new design. So, we’ve got two more quick end of year announcements to make:
- Sale continues for one more week, and
- Public unveiling and live webcast of new Version 5 GEK Gasifier and Power Pallet, 6pm Pacific Standard Time, Friday, January 10th, at All Power Labs in Berkeley, CA
1) Last week for our end-of year sale terms, before the pricing changes.
The 20kW Power Pallet has been offered at $26,995 for almost two years now, even as we’ve continually added features. Now we’ve done a complete reworking of the core reactor, significantly improving performance. The v5 Power Pallet can now be considered a reasonable alternative for diesel generators, either as a stand alone energy platform, or forming the heart of a micro/mini-grid.
We’re still deciding what the new pricing should be, but while we’re doing that we are keeping the price the same, and even sweetening it a bit. We’re offering the remaining slots at the old Power Pallet price for one more week, with the added incentive of a 50% down payment. In January the standard price for Power Pallets will increase. Until then, we can take credit card or wire transfer to hold the old price and a Q1 production slot. We’re also offering a significant one-time-only price reduction on multiple unit orders.
This incentive is offered only to customers in Non-EU countries, where CE certification is not a barrier to multiple unit deployments. Our travel to many project sites last year helped solidify and finalize many of the new features you said you wanted, and our intention with this sale is to jumpstart the larger scale deployments that so many of you have proposed to us.
Here are the terms:
1-2 units: 50% down, balance due before shipping.
3-9 units: 25% down, 10% discount on equipment price.
Includes free onsite time for one technician to assist with installation and training at your site. (You pay for travel, room and board.) First two units completed in Q1, payment of balance and completion of the remaining units according to a pre-determined schedule
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10+ units: 25% down, 15% discount on equipment price.
Includes one of our technicians traveling to your site to assist with installation and training at no additional cost to you. First two units completed in Q1, payment of balance and completion of the remaining units according to a pre-determined schedule.
The New Year is starting, let’s welcome it with the affordable, renewable, carbon-friendly energy we’ve all been waiting for. Contact our sales specialist for your part of the globe via our Contact Form.
2) Public unveiling and live webcast of new Version 5 GEK Gasifier and Power Pallet, 6pm Pacific Standard Time, Friday, January 10th.
Our monthly Open Houses are always an interesting time—a chance to meet the many who have been following our work and want to see the latest, and share ideas with others pioneering various fields, over beer and snacks cooked in a biomass-powered oven. But this next one is going to be singularly interesting. You won’t want to miss it, and now you don’t have to, even if you don’t live in the area.
At the next Open House, we’ll be unveiling for the first time the new Version 5.0 GEK Gasifier and Power Pallet, an event two years in the making. We’ll be going through all the philosophy and decision making of the key elements in detail, answering your questions, and demonstrating the new features and functionality.
For those in the area, register and then come by from 5-7pm January 10th. You can register to attend here.
If you can’t be here, stop by our website www.gekgasifier.com that Friday evening at 6pm local time ( GMT -8 ). You’ll be directed to a page where we hope to accommodate all of you wanting to watch in via a webstream as Jim, Bear, and the rest of the engineering team walk through the new features in detail.
Speaking of, here they are again. Much more detail to come on the 10th, look forward to seeing you then.
-Jim Mason
CEO, All Power Labs
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1. Longer runtimes (now up to 24 hrs, w/daily servicing)
- Constant ash removal system w/24 hour, easy servicing catch can.
- Relocated, improved cyclone ash system, also w/24 hour, easy servicing catch can.
- New hopper design holds 76% more fuel in same footprint.
2. Increased fuel flexibility via “Reversed Flow Reduction”
- New compound hearth architecture: Downward combustion, Upward reduction
- Eliminate reduction bell packing by “fluffing” fuel with horizontal and vertical gas flow
- Active fines purge by mechanical agitation and motivated fluid flow
3. Improved general usability and maintenance
- Hand wheel side access port
- Cyclone relocated to open side of Power Pallet
- Most bolt flanges eliminated. Replaced with twist on or level lock solutions
- Lower total reactor height for lower hopper and easier fuel fill
4. Increased materials longevity and reliability
- High temp 310 alloy hearth
- Thicker airlines in special 321SS alloy
5. Improved air and gas sealing
- Weld in hearth and air lines. No mechanical joints in thermal sections
- Reduced flanges and bung penetrations
- All gasketing converted to high temp graphite packing rope
6. Increased gas energy density
- Full wrap insulation of all vessels
- Improved internal heat isolation between pyrocoil and air/gas annuli
- Increased reduction time with “reversed flow reduction”
- Improved gas cooling before engine
7. Improved Filtration
- New high efficiency cyclone design
8. Improved Manufacturing Efficiency
- Integrated pyrocoil and reactor vessel
- Mechanically formed flanges and bead stiffened vessels
- Seam welded vessels