Sawdust Burner
Winfried Rijssenbeek, April 8, 2008
Plug Flow Reactor
Hey Nicolaus!

Good to see you in this forum! I hope you still know me from the Jatropha seminar last year? This type of blower and equipment, does it look like this (see attached picture) Do you know the suppliers of the equipment you described so I can contact them for the corn (maiz) dryer?

There is something else I want to share with you: I have been studying tropical pasture (cutting 9 times a year with a production of 30 tonm /ha /yr and with chipping it and feeding (after pretreatment) in a plugflow reactor to make biogas for electricity and cooking. I consider it to be of all systems, most continuous (you produce as of the first year), most simple in growing (perfect nutrients recycling) and in conversion (biogas run engines like Jenbacher are top) and most yielding per ha basis. Of course other systems like KDV (the promise) or cellulosic ethanol are nice but seem to be more large scale.

What's your idea on it?

PS are you familiar with Suarez's efforts

Winfried Rijssenbeek