Catalysts increase the speed of chemical reactions and reduce the amount of energy required to activate a reaction without being expended in the process.

Pyrolysis

We design, construct and teach operation of fast pyrolysis equipment for wood, agriculture residue, waste sludge and specialty crops.

Pyrolysis has been around for centuries. It’s a process that was originally used to make carbon charcoal. Pyrolysis thermally cracks or breaks down organic based materials in an environment of high temperature and devoid of oxygen. What happens to organic materials is it breaks down and causes a hot smoky gas to be formed. What is left, as a residual, is solid carbon particles. The hot smoky gas we then condense. In the process of condensing it we create a bio-oil and some combustible gasses.

Pyrolysis (Heat - Breaking Down) is a high temperature thermal process that occurs between about 250 and 500 C in the absence of oxygen. The process yields gases, volatile compounds and charcoal. Carried out at around 500 degrees Celsius in the absence of oxygen and to maximize the production of bio-oils the process must happen as quickly as possible. Usually in seconds or even fractions of a second.

Schematic view of a stratified downdraft pyrolysis gasifier

Pyrolysis is the base procedure used in extracting the oil and petrochemical products from the tar sands of Alberta.

We manufacture stationary units but specialize in making our equipment mobile. We scale our equipment to be mounted on tractor trailer rigs. Our systems use fixed bed downdraft reactors. The mobile units are perfect for low density materials such as wood waste and agricultural products which are uneconomical to be shipping to a central processing plant. This mobile concept allows the equipment to be moved to the product rather than trying to transport it to a processing plant.

You always get 3 components from pyrolysis: carbon char, bio-oil and gasious components. Depending on time of the reaction and the operating temperature you can taylor the system to maximize any one of the 3 components.

One of the great things about this process is that it is self sustaining and all the products produced are quite usable. CHAR: The char components that are left can be briquetted and used as a fuel. The char can also be used as a slow release fertilizer with nitrogen and phosferous to help restore depleted soils to create a nice terra preta.

BIO-OIL: The bio-oil is useful in the food industry, pharmaceutical fields and can be used as a fuel 40% of diesel fuel, but sulfur free.

GASIOUS PORTION: “syngas” can be increased by higher temperature around 800 degrees C. methane, ethane and hydrogen

FEEDSTOCKS: wood tends to make a decent fuel. Waste from biodiesel and ethanol production. Agricultural low maintenance crops like switch grass, rice straw and husks (reduce pollution from not burning rice straw in the field).

GLOBAL WARMING IMPACT: displaces petro-chemical fuels. Carbon sequestration through char.

TRAINING AND KNOWLEDGE: We make as low tech as possible. No PLC on pyrolysis units. Good for unskilled operators.

Vehicle powered by a downdraft gasifier

In our gasifier,, partial combustion produces Carbon Monoxide (CO) as well as hydrogen (H2) which are both combustible gas. Solid Biomass fuels, which are usually inconvenient and have low efficiency of utilization can thus be converted in to a high quality gaseous fuel with the associated convenience.

You can eliminate the expense of operating a motor vehicle or that of providing a household with power and heat.

You can use inexpensive—or sometimes even free —wood scraps as a replacement for costly fossil fuels.

Wood scrap may be recycled as a gasoline substitute for use with an automobile. The good news... It is almost free driving. The bad news... The unit is big and unsightly. However, if you're not into being fashionable... You can drive for free. When fuel is rationed again or unavailable you'll be glad you have it.

You can purchase the stainless steel gasifier plans to build the vehicle fuel gasifier for $79 and download now.

Get the plans to build the gasifier (this unit will also provide enough fuel to power up to a 20KW generator).

This gasifier is available completely assembled for $6900.

Vehicle Gasification for your commercial diesel truck!

Our Gasifiers work on cars, pickup trucks and 18 wheelers.

GASIFICATION

Solids: All types of coal petroleum coke and biomass.

Liquids: Liquid refinery residuals and liquid wastes from chemical plants and refineries.

Gas: Natural gas or refinery/chemical off-gas. Liquid and gaseous feedstocks can be fed directly into the gasifier, but solids must first be ground into small particles.

Gasifiers can extract energy from biomass, such as yard, forest and crop waste, switch grass, sewage sludge, landfill waste and paper plant residual materials.

Oxygen Plant:

Gasifiers can use pure oxygen to help facilitate the reaction. The

oxygen is fed in through separate co-feed ports.

Gasification: The core of the gasification system is the gasifier, a pressurized vessel where the feed material reacts with oxygen (or air) and steam at high temperatures.

There are several basic gasifier designs, distinguished by the use of wet or dry feed, the use of air or oxygen, the reactor’s flow direction (up-flow, downflow, or circulating), and the gas cooling process ( We only use downflow and fluidized bed). Currently, gasifiers are capable of handling up to 3,000 tons/day of feedstock throughput. A hydrocarbon feedstock is injected with oxygen and steam into a high temperature pressurized reactor until the chemical bonds of the feedstock are broken. Temperatures in a gasifier range from 1,400- 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat and pressure inside the gasifier break apart the chemical bonds of the feedstock, forming syngas. If the process is continued at higher temperatures, all these products are converted to producer gas (using air) or synthesis gas (using O2). The syngas consists primarily of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and, depending upon the specific gasification technology, smaller quantities of methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and water vapor.

SLAG: Most solid and liquid feed gasifiers produce a glass-like byproduct called slag, which is non-hazardous and can be used in roadbed construction or in roofing materials.

Gas Clean Up: The raw syngas produced in the gasifier contains trace levels of impurities that must be removed prior to its ultimate use. After the gas is cooled, the trace minerals, particulates, sulfur, mercury, and unconverted carbon are removed to very low levels using commercially proven cleaning processes common to the chemical and refining industries.

For feeds (such as coal) containing mercury, more than 95% of the mercury can be removed from the syngas using relatively small and commercially available activated carbon beds.

Co2

Carbon dioxide (CO2) can also be removed at the gas cleanup stage using a number of commercial technologies. In fact, CO2 is routinely removed with a commercially proven process in ammonia and hydrogen manufacturing plants. Ammonia plants already capture approximately 90% of the CO2 and methanol plants capture approximately 70%.

SULFUR:

More than 99% of the sulfur is removed and recovered either as elemental sulfur or sulfuric acid.

CLEAN SYNGAS:

Hydrogen and carbon monoxide, the major components of syngas, are the basic building blocks of a number of other products, such as chemicals and fertilizers.

In addition, a gasification plant can be designed to produce more than one product at a time (co-production), such as the production of electricity, steam, and chemicals (e.g. diesel fuel, methanol or ammonia). This Poly-generation flexibility allows a facility to increase its efficiency and improve the economics of its operations.

Present world syngas market, totally 6 EJ/y

Today’s, global use of syngas for the production of transportation fuels in the so-called “gas-toliquids” processes (GtL) correspond to approx. 500 PJ per year, i.e. from the Fischer-Tropsch processes of Sasol in South Africa and of Shell in Bintulu, Malaysia. In the future, syngas will become increasingly important for the production of cleaner fuels to comply with the stringent emission standards: second generation biofuels like methanol, DME, ethanol, and Fischer- Tropsch diesel. The huge potential market for syngas is illustrated by the fact that almost 20% of the present world primary energy consumption is for transportation fuels only [3]. If the chemical sector is included, the total syngas potential increases to approximately 30%.

Biomass is heading for a great future as renewable energy source. It not only is available in large quantities, it also is the only renewable energy source that is suitable for the sustainable production of (generally carbon containing) transportation fuels and chemicals. Therefore, the application of biomass as feedstock for the production of fuels and chemicals allows the reduction of fossil fuel consumption and the accompanying CO2-emmissions.

In our gasifier, partial combustion produces Carbon Monoxide (CO) as well as hydrogen (H2) which are both combustible gas. Solid Biomass fuels, which are usually inconvenient and have low efficiency of utilization can thus be converted in to a high quality gaseous fuel with the associated convenience.

You can eliminate the expense of operating a motor vehicle or that of providing a household with power and heat.

You can use inexpensive—or sometimes even free —wood scraps as a replacement for costly fossil fuels.

Wood scrap may be recycled as a gasoline substitute for use with an automobile. The good news... It is almost free driving. The bad news... The unit is big and unsightly. However, if you're not into being fashionable... You can drive for free. When fuel is rationed again or unavailable you'll be glad you have it.

The Equipment in which gasification of Biomass takes place is known as a gasifier. There are three designs of gasifiers.

We build downdraft gasifiers. In this type air intake and bionmass is fed at the top. Biomass moves down as the process proceeds. The first stage consists of drying through pyrolysis oxidation and reduction. The hot gas coming out of the Gasifier has significant carry over of ash and soot particles. The gas is passed through a cyclone and scrubber for cleaning and cooling. The clean and cool gas is then further passed through a fine filter and is ready as a motor fuel.

Free electricity? Free heat? Yep, you can have both if you have free wood, rice hulls, peanut shells, coconut shells, etc.

If you are planning a community power system anywhere in the world, some questions that need to be addressed in your planning and analysis would be as follows::

We develop gasification based renewable energy systems (down draft gasification).

We Also Custom Build Conventional Gasification-Electricity Plants from 25Kw to 3Mw.

Below is a 100KW generator powered by a small commercial size gasifier unit.

You can purchase the above gasifier unit for $296,000. Includes 100Kw rebuilt generator.

Complete gasifier/generator systems with rebuilt engine/generator sets - New gen/sets priced higher - plus shipping:

Larger Multi Module Systems Available:

Here is a list of plans and books you can download right now:

You can download any or all of these documents. We do have a one time charge of $9.75 to help cover hosting costs since many of these manuals require a lot of memory. Upon payment you will be forwarded to the download page.

We offer consulting services for gasification systems. Our gasification engineer is one of the best gasification consultants available. He has been involved in the design, project management and construction of gasification projects for several years, lived in Germany and helped design the Sasol units in South Africa.

For Gasification consulting services please email.

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