[RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

[Ron Young]

The comments are interesting and helpful. This is a proposed college research project that will be sponsored by a grant and all these bridges would have to be crossed. 

Ron

On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:08 AM, RE Ellison <reellison at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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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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