Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Biomass Energy Foundation: About Usmanufacture and alternate fuelresearch.CURRENT RESEARCH IN ALTERNATE ENERGY AT BEFI am a Physical Chemist (PhD, U.Minn.) and I love research, (as wellas engineering, teaching, inventing,and now manufacturing stoves).Following my extended careers atLinde (Praxair) on high temperatureresearch (8 years) and at MIT (18years in Material Science), I becameinterested in Alternate Energy andFuels. I published a major article inScience on Methanol as the Fuel ofthe Future in 1973 that totallychanged my career.I have a laboratory in my garage andworkshop in my basement where Iperform experiments on biomasspyrolysis and gasification, makestoves and am measuring flamevelocities.In 1990 I developed with Bill Mobeck an oil absorbentcalled "SeaSweep".I have been working on small gasifiers since 1980.Starting in 1998 I have been working on the design ofsmall gasifiers for distributed power with the CommunityPower Corporation, CPC. In 1999 we built a small 5 kWgasifier in my garage workshop.In 2000 we installed a 15 kW combined heat and powergasifier in a village in the Philippines and in 2001 anotherat the Hoopa Indian reservation.In 1985 I began work on gasifiers for cooking and we arehttp://www.woodgas.com/aboutBEF.htm (3 of 4) [10/9/2008 08:23:00]