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Newbie advice to Newbies:

a running summary of important things for beginner orientation 

General Gasification

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

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 Gasifier Design

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

Reed, T.B., Das, A., Nostrand, Wm. Handbook of Biomass Downdraft Gasifier Engine Systems. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (formerly Solar Energy Research Institute), U.S. Department of Energy, Golden, Colorado, USA. 1988-03. (download here: HandbookOfBiomassDowndraftGasifierEngineSystems.pdf (PD/USGov))

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

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

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