CHP on the Cheap
We’re working towards a native chp system built standard into the power pallet. the goal is to make available both the hot water from the engine cooling system, as well as the hot exhaust after the pyrocoil, towards off board heating needs. we’re working on liquid heat exchangers to produce hot water for heating and hot shower water. we’re also working on hot gas to gas exchangers so you can get hot air for fuel drying and ag crop drying. There are many fancy ways to do this. bear will document these later. there are also some cheap obtainium ways……
Workshop this weekend – Lister spark conversion – 6 Gas Analyzer now in house
Gasification and Biochar Workshop this coming weekend- October 8-11 Last chance reminder! The next quarterly workshop at ALL Power Labs is coming up this weekend. We hope you will join us for what is always a very enjoyable descent into (and back out of) the deep recesses of biomass thermal conversion. The workshop offers education, research reports and hands-on experience to bring more people to successful operation of small scale gasification and pyrolysis units. The event is open everyone, not just GEK or BEK users/owners. So come and join us while we progressively make small-scale gasification and pyrolysis a reasonable……
Powering the Future: Gasification, Biochar & the Kubota Engine
Gasification and Biochar Workshop- October 8-11 The next quarterly workshop at ALL Power Labs is coming up in less than two weeks. We hope you will join us for what is always a very enjoyable descent into (and back out of) the deep recesses of biomass thermal conversion. The workshop offers education, research reports and hands-on experience to bring more people to successful operation of small scale gasification and pyrolysis units. The event is open everyone, not just GEK or BEK users/owners. So come and join us while we progressively make small-scale gasification and pyrolysis a reasonable proposition, adequately advanced……
Fall Workshop, Oct 8-11: Power Pallet 7 day test run- Biochar Database – Syngas-to-Liquids
Gasification PowerExchange Workshop #9 Opening Intro/ Lecture: Friday, October 8, 7:30-9:30PM Weekend Build, Run and Test: Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, October 9-11, 11am – 7pm Location: ALL Power Labs, 1010 Murray Street. Berkeley, CA Contact: jim ^at^ allpowerlabs dot org Cost: Free if you are a GEK or BEK owner, either through self build or purchase. Otherwise, $100 for weekend. The quarterly workshop series at ALL Power Labs offers education, research reports and hands-on experience to bring more people to successful operation of small scale gasification and pyrolysis units. The event is open everyone, not just GEK or BEK users/owners. ……
CNC Laser and Stainless GEKs. BEK at Iowa Biochar conference.
CNC Laser Cut Parts and Stainless Steel GEKs We’ve recently moved to a CNC laser cutter solution for sourcing the raw gek metal parts. For the last two years we’ve been making these in house with a CNC plasma cutter, but our throughput has outgrown the reasonableness of the plasma cutter solution. Fortunately we can use the same files to outsource to a CNC laser cutting house, and have everything show up done, clean and nicely taped together in bunches on a pallet. The locals find this MUCH superior and do not miss the de-slagging, re-drilling and general fussing with……
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……
Power Monitoring tools: a “Kill-a-Watt-+” on an Arduino
Report from Bear Kaufmann: A couple weeks ago, Trystan Lea, who runs OpenEnergyMonitor (http://openenergymonitor.org) came by and we worked on testing his system on our in house 10kw Power Pallet. The OpenEnergyMonitor is “a project to develop and build open source energy monitoring and analysis tools for energy efficiency and distributed renewable microgeneration.” The project is developed around the Arduino, thus will integrate nicely with our Arduino based Gasifier Control Unit. Trystan has some cool code and great explanations of the circuits on the site. We tested his system on the skid, monitoring 2 legs of current and voltage from……
British EE betrays Lucas heritage- Lister diesel runs on electronic spark ignition!
The workshop weekend was a rousing success- the highlight of which was likely the Ken Boak and Darryl led effort to convert a Lister diesel to spark ignition for 100% woodgas operation. This settled the long running debate as to whether a spark plug in the precombustion chamber of a Lister will actually light a wood gas fuel/air charge. The answer is yes. It also answered the related question of whether the pull rate of a standard 6/1 Lister is high enough to keep the gasifier hot and above tar making temps. The answer is also yes. This is great……
Next Workshop Weekend: Feb 19-21, 2010, Berkeley, CA.
Gasification PowerExchange Workshop #7: Next Gen GEK 10kw gasifier genset skid and BEK biochar running. Gasification Lecture and Demo: Friday, February 19, 7:30-9:30PM Building, Running and Testing: Saturday and Sunday, February 20 & 21, 11am – 7pm Location: ALL Power Labs, 1010 Murray Street. Berkeley, CA Contact: jim ^at^ allpowerlabs.com Cost: Free if you are a GEK or BEK owner, either through self build or purchase. $100 if you are not. The next of our quarterly gasifier workshop weekends is set for Februrary 19-21. The purpose of this ongoing series of workshops is to help bring more people to successful……
APL called “leader in putting syngas to work,” plus: GEK conquers the Rockies!
Hello everyone, here’s the latest news from All Power Labs on our work with gasification and biochar. We got some great news coverage, better assembly and first fire instructions, more user reports, and as always more research and testing data. It’s all part of our ongoing mission to put the information and tools in your hands, so you can make it yourself, or make it run even better. Hope you enjoy, and as always feel free to get in touch with any questions, feedback, or user reports. -All Power Labs. 1- Farm Show magazine reports on the GEK, calls us……