The Masonic Method: How to Operate a Downdraft Gasifier
Driving a gasifier is hard. Proper hearth dimensioning and good fuel is important, but not enough to guarantee success. Most of us learn an informed operator is also needed. In fact, an informed operator is often the most important variable on the road to success. Unfortunately, it is also the variable that varies the most. Things would be much easier if we had the equivalent of a “speedometer” and “tachometer” to guide the operator. Something like a car where we have a gauge that tells us how fast we are going, and another gauge that tells us how hard we’re……
Workshop report. Power Pallet 4 day / 30 hour run report
The workshop weekend was great fun and good learning as usual– and this time with a gasifier-genset running through the whole event. Thank you again to all who joined us, and for the many new friends that came out of the process. Longest distance award this time goes to Abau who flew in all the way from the Congo, and flew back with many plans for gasification in central Africa. The most interesting new contributors were Kyoung Ro with his talk on animal manure biochars and Devinder Mahajan for his survey of liquification pathways and related liquification technology. Mixing in……