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2. Wood gas generator - Wikipedia

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   Dodge V10 hauling hay with woodgas.Keith gasifier system Santa-Go, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd.. A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion ...

3. Wood gas - Wikipedia

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   Flame from a wood gas generator. Wood gas is a fuel gas that can be used for furnaces, stoves, and vehicles. During the production process, biomass or related carbon-containing materials are gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to produce a combustible mixture.

4. Delano-area biomass power plant's owner wins federal permit - AOL

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   Oct. 4—Regional air quality regulators have renewed the federal permit a Northern California company needed before converting an idle biomass plant near Delano into a clean-burning power ...

5. List of power stations in California - Wikipedia

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   This includes baseload, peaking, and energy storage power stations, but does not include large backup generators. As of 2018 [update] , California had 80 GW of installed generation capacity encompassing more than 1,500 power plants; with 41 GW of natural gas, 26.5 GW of renewable (12 GW solar, 6 GW wind), 12 GW large hydroelectric, and 2.4 GW ...

6. Micro combined heat and power - Wikipedia

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   While net-metering is a very efficient mechanism for using excess energy generated by a micro-CHP system, it does have disadvantages: while the main generating source on the electrical grid is a large commercial generator, net-metering generators "spill" power to the smart grid in a haphazard and unpredictable fashion. However, the effect is ...

7. Boiler (power generation) - Wikipedia

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   A boiler or steam generator is a device used to create steam by applying heat energy to water. Although the definitions are somewhat flexible, it can be said that older steam generators were commonly termed boilers and worked at low to medium pressure (7–2,000 kPa or 1–290 psi ) but, at pressures above this, it is more usual to speak of a ...

8. Power station - Wikipedia

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   The generator room of the Krka hydroelectric plant (1895), with one of the first polyphase AC distribution systems in the world [4] AC systems used a wide range of frequencies depending on the type of load; lighting load using higher frequencies, and traction systems and heavy motor load systems preferring lower frequencies.

9. Bioenergy - Wikipedia

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   Types of biomass commonly used for bioenergy include wood, food crops such as corn, energy crops and waste from forests, yards, or farms. [3] Bioenergy can help with climate change mitigation but in some cases the required biomass production can increase greenhouse gas emissions or lead to local biodiversity loss. The environmental impacts of ...