fitting… sizing… tinkering…
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Does raw bamboo have a lot of ash and soot?
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What are your plans Koen? Are you going to powersuply a whole village? Or the whole country?
And do you use silicone on the rope? Thanks for pictures. They say more then….
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Hi Don,
I don’t know, yet…
Hope to find out soon…
@Pelletpower
This one between 200 and 300 m3 gas
For boiler testing and next generators.
And yes, this size is able for comunity powersuply
The cooler thing is to recover heat as max for preheating production air.
Next, after this test, is upscaling to 14 megawatt boiler fuel
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That will be a lot of bamboo to keep it going. Does bamboo dry quicky after being cut up and put under a dry shelter?
Very nice heavy duty build Koen.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
Yeah, a big heap bamboo needed… about 25.000 Ton/Year
Now we are using sawdust and woodshavings a bit messy and not efficient.
Bamboo after fresh cut (70% moist) goes fairly quick to -15% in about 4 weeks ( good climate here for that )
Heavy duty… yeah, but i will try to melt it 
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Do I hear sawdust? In a gasfier?
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Koen this made me laugh, it totally sounds like something I would do.
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I have had my WK Gasifier up to 1760 °f at the grate once. Does that count? Lol.
Bob
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Hi Joep,
nope, not gasifier …
underfeed coal fired boilers, used wit sawdust/shavings instead coal…
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Hi Bob…
1760 = only 960 celcius…
i consider 2500 / 1370 as melting temperature
i remember when i tried hydrogen/plasma to gasify… rip the poor test rig…
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Progress and making ready for first flare off ( coming friday afternoon )
The test design for the sieve
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Looking great. It is bigger then I thought. Wow. Looking forward to the firing it up.
Great build. Koen. Thanks for keeping us posted on this.
Bob
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Ok Koen, it is official: you have the biggest 
Impressive project. Cant see any filter om my phone, screen to small.
And what with the mask? Is it not over yet? Dont spend to much words on that. Just curious.
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WOW that is one big impressive flare you have there Koen. I give it a plus 100 % score. Great job on the build.
Bob
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Hi Joep, not sure if i have the biggest …
But thanks anyway…
Yes, no filters, just cyclone and cooler…
Today had a second run, with audience, performed well…
I have some thermo graphs i still have to convert , coming soon…
I feel blessed with all the support and encouragement on DOW, all the feedback and information i got did end up in this build…
IMHO, if you are willing to listen to others, take advices, learn from others, your own build will succeed…
My build is not a WK, nor a Ben Peterson, ( i have their books ) nor any others…
A small part own knowledge and a lot part DOW know how…
I could not tell which person besides Wayne or Steve U encouraged me most… wisdom to learn from…
At the time writing this, i am drunk from the wine on my 60th birthday party, together with my bosses, aka the audience, but all my gratitude is to the members of DOW… true the wine is good
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