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Jim Taylor's Impact Speech |
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| The Biomass Gasification Process
What has developed into the Taylor Solutions gasifier is really the perfection of the incinerator -except it's not an incineration process at all. Let me explain this distinction to you: Gasifiers don't burn biomass and turn it into noxious, polluting smoke, like incinerators. Because they operate in the absence of oxygen, gasifiers turn biomass into a valuable 450 BTU medium caloric gas. While there are some emissions, they are extremely low and reduce both NOX |
and SOX to a decimal of traditional, legal, power plant outputs.This means that biomass normally incinerated or put into landfills can now become feedstock for the gassifier and produce a gas and steam heat as by-products. Taylor's gasifier does not depend on wood as the feedstock. There's not enough of it to operate the gasifier profitably and the numbers don't work out.Besides, we already produce mulch from our wood feedstock. A far better alternative is to use the vast amounts of biomass human beings produce as the feedstock. | Unlike mass incineration techniques, the Taylor sorting and recycling process carefully removes metals and inorganics from the biomass we receive before it is fed into the gasifier. Recyclable paper, like newsprint, will still be recycled. But paper contaminated by food, for example, will become feedstock for the gasifier. The net result is that we ensure the cleanest, most efficient gasification process while producing the lowest possible emissions. |