Mobile Gasifier for Truck
Philippe Raufast, November 20, 2007

As you can see here : http://forum.aceboard.net/12980-1246-27054-0-PROCEDE-GENEFAG.htm
It has already being done here in France, after the first oil shock, by the Calberson trucking company .
The gasifier system was called GENEFAG (generateur fuel air gas). As you can see from the schematic it was of standard Imbert type, running on chopped wood.
Starting fan, igniter, air and gas valves were operated electrically from the dashboard, the driver had various gauges to monitor the system.
You can see that the "packaging" was very neat, using the free space between the truck and trailer to install the "box" containing the whole system.
The smaller Saviem SG2 payload area was a bit shortened .
The Renault truck on the first picture was burning 500 l of diesel to cross France from north to south (1000 km) .
With the gasifier fitted, it was using 200 l of diesel and 1000 kg of wood for the same distance, saving 300 l of fossil fuel.
The payload was 25 tons. I hope you will like it ...
Regards, Philippe.
praufast@free.fr

Aruna Gasifier

Engine Genset

We are a fast growing medium scale engineering company catering to the needs of the Power Industries of both thermal and hydro power. We are in the field of Renovation & Modernization of Hydro / Turbo Generators for the past four decades having good clientele support from the nation’s power giants like BHEL, NLC, NTPC, KEB, KPTCL, TNEB, KSEB, APGEN etc.

In addition to this, we are expanding our activities into the bio energy sector by promoting the usage of non conventional energy sources. We are convinced ourselves that this could be the only solution to safeguard our nation’s environment, economy and also face the consequences of the depleting crude oil deposits. To realise this dream and give practical dimensions to our endeavor, we had enter into agreement with a premier R&D Institute for technology transfer to design & fabricate biomass gasifiers. Based on this agreement, we undertake turnkey biomass gasifer projects for power generation and thermal applications.

We are extremely thankful to you for the interest shown in our biomass gasifier based power project. This technology of ‘Future’, finds wide acceptance from small, medium and large industrial sectors by its uniqueness of lowest cost of production, simplicity in operation, absolutely free from air and water pollution.

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S. Adhavan
Aruna Electrical Works (P) Ltd.,
Kongampattu - 605 105,
Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
Mobile:91-9443274749

Email: arunabiomass@rediffmail.com

www.arunabiomass.com 

JCI

Nexterra (www.nexterra.ca) is a biomass gasification company based in Vancouver Canada. Our first commercial facility at Tolko Industries’ Heffley Creek plywood plant has been operational since May 2006. It produces 38 MMBtu/hr of net usable heat for their veneer dryers and log conditioning vats. Johnson Controls is installing our technology at the University of South Carolina. The system will produce 60,000 lb/hr of high pressure steam and 1.4 MWe of electricity.

Nexterra is also working on its advanced gasification applications. At our product development centre we are finalizing development of our direct firing applications. With direct firing we will be able to fire syngas directly into an existing boiler, or a lime kiln. We are also working with major engine OEMs to fire syngas into reciprocating engines.

Darcy Quinn
Sales and Marketing Coordinator
Nexterra Energy Corp.
Tel 604.637.2501 Ext. 115
Fax 604.637.2506
Email dquinn@nexterra.ca
www.nexterra.ca

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