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Newbie advice to Newbies:

a running summary of important things for beginner orientation 

General Gasification

Interesting old gasification bibliography:http://members.tripod.com/~cturare/lit.htm

or here in file form is link is dead.

Gasification literature Biblio.pdf

ALL Power Labs Gasification Teaching Graphics

see here for printable pdf files of the main graphics we use for teaching gasification.  Some of these are generated in house at APL.  Others are copied and cited from elsewhere, most significantly Tom Reed's many helpful visual contributions.

http://gekgasifier.pbworks.com/Gasification-Graphics

General Gasification and Pyrolysis

Historical Gasifier Designs: books and papers on gasifiers fielded in the early days of gasification 

Handbook of Biomass Downdraft Gasifier Engine Sysytems

Thomas Reed and Agua Das, SERI/SP-271-3022, DE88001135, March 1988.

(available in print from BEF at http://woodgas.com/bookstore.htm. please support BEF. the entire BEF library is fabulous. buy the whole thing.)

FAO 72: Wood Gas as Engine Fuel

ISBN92-5-02436-7, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, 1986

FEMA Manual- Constructing a Simplified Wood Gas Generator for Fueling Internal Combustion Engines in a Petroleum Emergency

Henry LaFontaine, F.P. Zimmerman, March 1989

(available in print from http://woodgas.com/bookstore.htm. please support BEF. the entire BEF library is fabulous. buy the whole thing)

Biomass Gasifier "Tars": Their Nature, Formation and Conversion

T.A. Milne, R.J. Evans, N. Abatzoglou, NREL, November 1998

(available in print from http://woodgas.com/bookstore.htm. please support BEF. the entire BEF library is fabulous. buy the whole thing)

Superficial Velocity- The Key to Downdraft Gasification

T. B. Reed, R. Walt, S. Ellis, A. Das, S. Deutch. Presented at 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas; Oakland, CA, 8/29/99

(mirrored from Biomass Energy Foundation, www.woodgas.net)

Monorator- Gasifier for Damp Fuel

Harald Kyrklund, Teknisk Tidskrift, July 21 1945.

(Translation 2000, Joacim Persson <joacim@artech.se>)

(mirrored from: http://www.hotel.ymex.net/~s-20222/gengas/)

Lutz: German Ideas on Improvements of Wood Gasifiers

Summary in Teknisk Tidskrift of a thesis by H. Lutz, published in ATZ. Ed CVNordenswan, Sept. 1941.

(Translation to English, 2000, Joacim Persson <joacim@ymex.net>).

(mirrored from: http://www.hotel.ymex.net/~s-20222/gengas/)

Comments on Lutz paper: Gasifier Efficiency

E. Hubendick, Teknisk Tidskrift, Dec, 1941

(Translation to English, 2000, Joacim Persson <joacim@ymex.net>)

(mirrored from: http://www.hotel.ymex.net/~s-20222/gengas/)

The Making of the Kalle Gasifier

Torsten Kalle, January-February 1942.

(Translation to English, 2000, Joacim Persson <joacim@ymex.net>)

(mirrored from: http://www.hotel.ymex.net/~s-20222/gengas/)

Modelling for Control of a Biomass Gasifier

Dorus van der Hoeven, Thesis 0474218, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, January 2005

Design Rules for Downdraft Gasifiers: A Short Review

prepared by dr.ir. Jan Venselaar
project JTA-9A - Research Development1
at the Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
August 1982

Diebold, J., et al. Specialists' Workshop on Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly Solar Energy Research Institute), U.S. Department of Energy, Golden, Colorado, USA. 1980-10.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=&page=2&osti_id=6478794

Design of Downdraught Gasifier 

Over view of processes, design guidelines, and sizing graphs. 

French Gasifier: BFT_195_61-70.pdf

Fluidized Bed Biomass Gasifiers

"Bench-Scale Studies on Fluid-Bed Pyrolysis of Wood". Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Richland, Washington, USA. 1988-08.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=&page=0&osti_id=6833612

Biomass Gasification Tar Mitigation Systems

Baker, E.G., Brown, M.D., Moore, R.H., Mudge, L.K., Elliott, D.C. Engineering Analysis of Biomass Gasifier Product Cleaning Technology.  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Richland, Washington, USA. 1986-08.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=&page=0&osti_id=5452542

Milne, T.A., Evans, R.J., Abatzaglou, N. Biomass Gasifier Tars: Their Nature, Formation, and Removal. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly Solar Energy Research Institute), U.S. Department of Energy, Golden, Colorado, USA. 1988-11-01.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/product.biblio.jsp?query_id=&page=0&osti_id=3726

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition for Biomass Gasification Systems

Paes, Thijs. Modeling for Control of a Biomass Gasifier. Techische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 2005-01-20. http://alexandria.tue.nl/repository/books/612747.pdf

PufferMath

Gas producer modeling program

Integrated Gasifier-Engine Articles

 Study on performance of biomass gasifier-engine systems and their environmental aspects: http://www.fao.org/docrep/t4470e/t4470e0i.htm

Interesting Old/New Tech Museums and Related Places

Gasifier Collections.

Deutches Museum Munich, Germany:  The history of German tech.  They put out a book on the life of Jacquest Imbert.  We have it here at the Shipyard in Berkeley, CA, but it needs translation from German for the locals

Old IC Engines, Steam, Farm EQ, etc

Coolsprings Power Museum in Pennsylvania: http://www.coolspringpowermuseum.org/

Exhaustively collects the early history of internal combustion engines, as expressed in stationary engine applications. 

Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum, Vista, California

http://www.agsem.com/about.html   http://www.bigblendmagazine.com/Antique-Gas-Steam-Engine-Museum/index.htm