Producer Gas Plants

I shudder to think what carcinogens were being produced in gas producer plants - coal tar being but a minor one, I'd think.

I know that the ground at the old gas works in Cannon's Marsh in the middle of some VERY expensive building land in the centre of the old Bristol docks area is still unrecovered. The soil has soaked up so much stuff over the years that it will need the whole lot to be removed. I understand that planning permissions are constantly turned down because putting in a trench would mean local evacuation and road closures!

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

I may be wrong here but I think the amberly chalk pits has a set which gets a run occasionally

Maybe someone else here can comment.

Jon

And toxins.

Yep, did some filming in there many moons ago, ISTR that the principle contaminant was (is...) Aresnic but there is also a great long list of heavy metals as well.

I wonder how long it will be before the value of that land (and it's quite a big site) out strips the reclaimation costs?

In message , Jon hutchings writes

Correct Jon, there is one at Amberley, but I doubt it is in working condition. The engines in the shed behind it run and their exhausts deliver into the covered, open sided shed containing the gas engine and its producer which might make you think it was working. It is a Tangye I think.

Do you mean the Tangye, with the hand cranked blower to fire up the gasifier? If it still runs I'd love to see it working.

AJH

Producer gas technology for biomass (wood chips), has gotten very clean. If the gas is clean, would the stationary engine work well? Would make a great renewable energy generating plant. Bill

It needs scrubber too :-) There is a wonderful group of Frenchmen who usually demonstrate a producer gas engine at Dorset. It worked well in the early 1900s and under the new technology and materials the technique is much the same. ttfn