If you are coming on the site wondering why there is no content. Join the forum and start participating and change this. Ask questions, show us you concepts or projects. I monitor site traffic 24 hours a day and I see the traffic here on the forum. This is a community for the DIY builders and users, you dont need to purchase anything to be apart of this community. Rather than searching the internet for free plans, join the forum ask questions, present a concept and eventually people with experience will aid you. Thats what this is about here. But we have to build the community here, the more we build the better it will get :)
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Hey Matt, Long time since I checked in, how is it going?
Bruce
Great!! Are you keeping up with development? Keep an eye on the Fusion products, this will change the game in gasification for power. No more fuel processing for this application, the stove technology does this for you. The stove tech will not only change the game for gasification for power but also the pellet stove industry as a whole. This simplifies the stove, allows it capability to run in a grid down situation and runs far cleaner than any pellet stove on market.
Glad to join this group. I have been loosely watching micro CHP development for years. I was pleased to see Marcin Jakubowski from OSE go to biochar. It seems such a better solution than "using tar". They use a cyclone filter. You use a welding cloth filter? Anyway, I am so glad you are automating these systems. I can't weld. I don't know anything about electronics. I can barely start a lawnmower. So, your existence is a dream come true.
We use silica cloth, I guess some welding blankets are made of this material. The Material we use is a filter media cloth and it can withstand the very harsh chemicals subjected to it plus it can handle 1800* F temperature well beyond our gas temps at the point of the filter. The Cloth is inexpensive and the bags are easy to make using a heavy duty packaging stapler to create the seams. This is the best filter system we have found. I will never build another cyclone as long as I live. They are PITA to fabricate and they really dont work all that well. This cloth filters at 300 microns. A cyclone can not come anywhere near that.
But thanks for the post. Keep with forum, it will be slow going as we build up and that will take some time. I will do what I can to post new updates of what we have going on in the shop. We will soon be wrapping up 2019-2020 builds and then moving on to the 2021 Fusion Builds here soon. :)