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Team Leader: Michael Koch [mailto:michael.d.koch@hotmail.com] | Team Leader: Michael Koch [mailto:michael.d.koch@hotmail.com] | ||
Through the work of a team of 4 senior mechanical engineers at the University of Missouri, the basic design found below was finished for a Personal Biomass Gasification Chamber. The team has finished the final report, and it has been ported over to the Wiki format below. All of the research is completely open. Also, it is '''encouraged''' that people update and correct mistakes since this project is far from perfect. | |||
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Revision as of 21:10, 18 June 2008
- HABITAT: CEB Press - Sawmill - Living Machines - Modular Housing Units
- AGROECOLOGY: LifeTrac Multi Purpose Tractor - MicroTrac - Power Cube - Agricultural Spader - Agricultural Microcombine - Hammer Mill - Well Drilling Rig - Organoponic Raised Bed Gardening - Orchard and Nursery - Modular Greenhouse Units - Bakery - Dairy - Energy Food Bars - Freeze Dried Fruit Powders
- ENERGY: Pyrolysis Oil - Babington Burner - Solar Combined Heat Power System - Steam Engine Construction Set - Solar Turbine - Electric Motors/Generators - Inverters & Grid Intertie - Batteries
- FLEXIBLE INDUSTRY: Lathe - Torch Table - Multimachine & Flex Fab - Plastic Extrusion & Molding - Metal Casting and Extrusion
- TRANSPORT: Open Source Car
- MATERIALS: Bioplastics
Compressed Fuel Gas (CFG)- proven technology for gassifying wood exists. It is not a huge leap to compress and store this gas, as a local option for fuel gas. Huge market potential. Essential to bakery, or metal melting.
Introduction
Biomass gasification technology is a concept that has been around for over 100 years, but is now in steep demand due to several factors. Simply put, biomass gasification takes a dry, carbon-based fuel and turns it into a usable synthesis gas, or syngas, that can be be used for various processes such as cooking or manufacturing. One of the prominent reasons biomass gasification is becoming important again is rising gas prices as well as United States dependence on foreign oil. These topics are now at the forefront of many American’s minds. This biomass gasification chamber would give consumers an inexpensive alternative to expensive natural gas that now dominates the market. The effects of such a technology could have extensive implications on the economics of the oil markets, as well as the ability of people around the world to locally produce their own fuel.
Similarly, this chamber would be using renewable energy because it is based on the gasification of biomass. Biomass is a broad term that essentially means any sort of carbon based material that can be used as fuel. In our case, we would be using biomass logs that would be gasified in the chamber. This process is much more environmental-friendly than simply burning the biomass because the gasification process has significantly less emissions. Also, the ash byproduct can be used as fertilizer for plants and crops. Similarly, reducing the use of fossil fuels is extremely important as issues of global warming seem to be cropping up everywhere. Since biomass is renewable it would eliminate the need to drill for fossil fuels, something that would significantly reduce the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that are created by humans.
Freepatentsonline.com patent #5378113 - http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5378113.pdf
Collaboration
Review of Project Status
CFG - Current Work
University of Missouri - Columbia Capstone Project
Team Leader: Michael Koch [1]
Through the work of a team of 4 senior mechanical engineers at the University of Missouri, the basic design found below was finished for a Personal Biomass Gasification Chamber. The team has finished the final report, and it has been ported over to the Wiki format below. All of the research is completely open. Also, it is encouraged that people update and correct mistakes since this project is far from perfect.