[RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

[toddcory at finestplanet.com]

i saw a commercial unit doing this here in mountshasta about 12 years ago.
 
the gas (from gasified wood) was fed into a ford engine, which turned a dc generator charging a small "buffer bank" of batteries. a standard trace sw4024 did the selling to the grid. the grid interface was the easy part. getting the engine to consistently run off of the gasified wood chips was what nixed the demonstration project. moisture variations and dirt in the chips was the biggest problem.
 
todd
 
 
 
 
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 2:08am, "RE Ellison" <reellison at gmail.com> said:



> The inverter portion of the process at this point in time would be
> relatively east to do. That's not saying that the inverter will like the
> power quality. Most generators will not put out smooth enough power to allow
> an inverter to connect. The engines that I have seen running on wood gas
> were nowhere near smooth enough to meet an inverters interconnect standards.
> 
> 
> After all that you get to deal with the regulatory hoops and I doubt that
> would be easy.
> 
> Just some thoughts.
> Bob Ellison
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On
> Behalf Of Ron Young
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 8:51 PM
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> Subject: [RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid
> 
> I have a customer who wants to use a 50kw generator converted to wood
> gasification to tie into the grid. Any recommendations on the type of grid
> tie gear that will be appropriate? It's a preliminary inquiry but I'm
> guessing a 240v output from the generator, single phase but may be 3ph. I
> see Solectria and SatCon make inverters in this range. Any suggestions
> appreciated
> 
> Ron Young
> 
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