So that was the paralysis part and now moving to the biomass gasification. So gasification is another way of having a higher yield of hydrogen without looking into multiple reactors like we have seen in the paralysis where we do paralysis in one reactor and the hydrogen yield or hydrogen enhancement in the separate reactor. So we have already seen the understood the gasification, paralysis and the combustion part. So typically gasification has a name such as conversion of biomass solid fuel to a gaseous fuel. Gaseous fuel easy, handy to use to store to transport unlike the biomass which is a little inconvenient for multiple use. So that is the simple thing why the gasification is done. So now gasification is a substochometry combustion of a fuel so typically less amount of oxygen that we are supplying. So gasification it involves paralysis, oxidation and the reduction process and we will see what exactly happens in the next slide. So typically biomass we know it contains the CH and O and then when we heat it, when we heat it what we get is it undergoes paralysis and we get the volatiles. So this is nothing but your combination of high hydrocarbon as we have seen in the earlier paralysis process. Also it gives you carbon monoxide hydrogen, CO2 etc. and all but also it gives the charcoal around 20 to 30% of charcoal by weight and volatile is around 70 to 80% by weight. So these two now in combustion process we burn all as we have seen in the example of the matchstick both are burned but here in gasification what we do is we only allow the volatiles to undergo combustion and what we get is H2O and CO2. Now the role comes of the charcoal. The charcoal acts as a reducing agent which reduces H2O and CO2 to carbon monoxide and the hydrogen and these two are fuel. So these two are the good fuel though carbon monoxide is a poisonous gas but we know that it is a very good fuel and also carbon monoxide is one of the substrate or the feedstock to give us more hydrogen through water gas shift reaction that we will see in the subsequent slides. So this together is called the synthetic gas or in short syngas. So this is what we get in the gasification process a very simple process and if we understand as we discussed in the last slide that is a sub-starchometry process. So now if we look into this graph this x axis is the equivalence ratio and when we say equivalence ratio 1 means it gives enough oxygen for complete combustion and that is what we mean by stoichiometry. So this is a stoichiometry point where we have the enough oxygen and if here it is less oxygen and beyond this point we have more or excess oxygen. So when we are talking about the pyrolysis it happens without the presence of oxygen. So zero oxygen is there, no oxygen or absence of oxygen or just in the inert like nitrogen gas environment or something but gasification, gasification happens when we are supplying around 20 to 40% of the required oxygen amount and here we get finally the carbon monoxide and the hydrogen as a product and as we have seen in this particular slide it is not a single step but a multiple step where the pyrolysis, combustion and reduction all the three process happen together in a single reactor. So again to reiterate physically how it happens we first thing is the process of the drying where we heat the biomass and remove the moisture. So typically gasification process 20 to 30% of the moisture is allowed because moisture removal is a very highly energy intensive process. So overall temperature gets reduced if we are putting very high amount of moisture and typically many of the green biomass will have 40 to 50% of moisture and it will be difficult to process here. So first we need to dry it and then this is happening below 200 degree centigrade. So typically more than 200 degree centigrade the organic molecules they start undergoing thermal decomposition or what we call as pyrolysis. So below 200 degrees you will not see any of these molecules will undergo any molecular change or compound level nothing new will come out but more than 200 degrees we will get and what we get here is charcoal that we saw 20 to 30% by weight and the tar and this tar is 70 to 80% and this tar is nothing but the volatile. So this is nothing but the volatile only it has a in literature you will find a different different terminology for that. So now when it undergoes combustion because we are passing oxygen and air. So now the question comes as we discussed we will allow only the volatiles to burn but how to do it in a single reactor if you want how to achieve it in a single reactor with a selective combustion but the beauty of the process is that chemistry itself take care of it. What happens if we supply oxygen and air but this tarry gas this is gas and then it reacts with oxygen which is also in the gas phase gas gas reaction is very far but this is solid. So this is charcoal is presented in a solid form. So this fuel is solid solid gas reaction is very very slow. So this is very slow and this is very fast not only few times but more than 100 times faster than what is the solid gas reaction of carbon with oxygen. So what happens is most of the oxygen most of the oxygen because the statistics and probability will favor the gas phase reaction and 99.9% of the oxygen will be consumed only by this volatiles. So volatiles will consume most of the oxygen and this charcoal will just remain and go into the reduction zone. So but it raises its temperature because it is present in the flame because this tarry gas it not only undergoes combustion or oxidation but also releases lot of heat. So here CO2 H2O plus heat is produced and this heat drives our reduction reaction because this is endothermic. This is processes or this reaction is endothermic. So here we have C plus H2O and C plus CO2 it gives CO plus H2O and this gives us 2 more of CO. So this is endothermic in nature both the reactions but this hot environment that has been created by the combustion of the volatiles sustain this reaction with the charcoal which is now do not have any access to oxygen but it has access to CO2 and H2O and it is happy to react and then it releases our H2O and CO2 as the product. So that is the overall process of biomass gasification and if we look into the reaction then combustion. So typically some part of the carbon will burn but yeah very minor negligible amount and then most of the oxygen will be consumed by volatiles when it reacts with oxygen and also it produces heat. And then the water gas reaction this C plus H2O and boardward reaction these 2 are major producer of our fuel gas that is the hydrogen and the carbon monoxide. Another reaction that I was talking about is the water shift reaction where carbon monoxide also reacts with H2O if there is enough H2O present or if H2O is present in the system it will not only attack carbon but also it will react with carbon monoxide. In carbon monoxide and H2O is now this is a gas phase reaction. Gas phase reaction again it is favored more compared to this solid gas reaction. So here this also gives you hydrogen extra hydrogen and this is one of the thing that when we want to enhance the hydrogen production we can use this H2O to enhance more and more hydrogen into it. And then we have a methane production and this is also slightly sort of exothermic but this is also very the occurrences quite low compared to the these 3 reactions. So these 3 reactions that goes into reduction zone are prominent and this is less prominent and this volatile oxidation is more prominent and this is less prominent. So this is the overall chemistry of the gasification process and now when we look into the technology just to give a brief history of this gasification especially the biomass gasification process it is a very interesting history. It was the second world war was going on and the US, UK and the Allied forces they found that the blocking the supply of the petroleum may hamper the German forces because Europe as such Germany was almost holding the complete Europe but Europe does not have much of a petroleum reserve. They have lot of coal but they do not have enough petroleum reserves in the Europe. So and it was dependent on either Gulf or the other countries in Africa for supply of the petroleum oil. So that was cut down and then German forces or the Hitler he was a little bit taken back but then there was one scientist called Fisher-Trop typically it is called the FT synthesis of Fisher and Trop. Fisher and Trop came up with the synthesis FT synthesis process where carbon monoxide plus H2 it undergoes a catalytic conversion process where it gives you higher hydrocarbon. This higher hydrocarbon can be petrol, diesel, substitute or kerosene or even up to wax you can even create a wax. So it creates a sort of it is a polymerization process where your carbon and hydrogen is here and oxygen is left out. So oxygen is not part of this product it is left out. The polymerization of carbon and hydrogen chain gives you higher hydrocarbons which can be equivalent in the properties to petroleum diesel which was required by the military. So and Europe has a lot of coal reserve even the Germany itself had a huge coal reserve which was used to undergo gasification process similar to what is biomass gasification we will come to it after this module the coal gasification. So this carbon monoxide and hydrogen was diverted here but this process was costly. This process was costly so the military application was only given the access to the liquid fuel and the normal population, civilian population were not allowed to use petroleum diesel. So it was completely banned the sale of petroleum diesel in the civilian areas was completely banned throughout the Europe. So then the researchers came up with the biomass gasification and the engine technology. So what they do is rather than looking for coal or something can be because this process of after synthesis is costly not the gasification process and biomass is also available. So rather than coal gasification they designed such reactors which were biomass gasifiers and which was producing gas. So it was giving you carbon monoxide, hydrogen and the methane and this was going into the IC engine. So they developed the process the technology which can fuel the conventional petrol or the diesel engine. So the diesel engine has to be converted to spark in a spark ignition mode because this fuel does not ignite by compression, compression ignition is not possible for this but it easily ignites with the help of a spark and especially this hydrogen is a very good fuel in terms of its ignition properties hydrogen plays a very important role. So you can see that even there in the tractor even in a two wheeler. So it was lot of things are produced there was a company in Poland which has retrofitted such gasification system like this and other in the trucks and buses and all they have retrofitted of more than 1 million vehicles. So you can just imagine how popular it was during the World War II era but once the World War was done away the petroleum supply in the Europe was very good very smooth supply was there and then the completely shifted back to the fossil fuel and this technology slowly slowly slowly died down but again it picked up during the 80s when there was again oil classes but that time it was not for the running the vehicles but for power production but yeah. So that was a very nice short history of this gasification which I thought it will be interesting to share here. Now again coming back to the gasification process. So as we have discussed again we will try to recap drying, pyrolysis, combustion and reduction. Drying happens typically in the temperature range of 20 to 150, pyrolysis more than 200 degrees and then oxidation zone goes very high temperature 1100-1200 degrees and this then whatever the leftover charcoal and because those reactions carbon with H2O and carbon with CO2 they are endothermic the temperature reduces to around 800 degrees or so and this oxidation zone is supplying heat for this reduction process as well as it is supplying heat for this pyrolysis process as well as it is supplying heat for the drying process. So all the heat supplied is from this oxidation zone as you can see here is this is the oxidation zone in this downed off reactor. So this reactor is the downed off reactor here and this through the radiation through the radiative heat transfer it supplies the heat to the pyrolysis zone and the drying zone and then air is drawn from here and the all the oxidation process happens and the hot gases passes through this reduction zone. So out upper side the radiation radiative heat transfer and in the reduction zone mostly the convective heat because it is the hot gases which is carrying the heat with heat comes to the charcoal and supplies the bulk amount of heat because it requires lot of heat to convert the solid carbon into gases it is a slow process where temperature has to be remained high pyrolysis can happen at 200-300 it is fine with it. So this is the typically process and when and then from the bottom we draw the gases. So typically updraft gasifier will have a different configuration so these two are for termed as packed bed reactor packed bed and they take the bigger size of the biomass particle and these two are the fluidized and the entrained flow which takes the small size particle and this takes the bigger size particle bigger size particle. So we will not go into the detail but chemistry is important to understand from this part now coming to the our main point we are looking for hydrogen okay we have understood the gasification I hope you have got the basic chemistry and overall reaction process in the reactor having a single reactor itself we are able to produce gas and the basic chemistry also but our intention is how to get the higher yield of hydrogen. So there is a limitation by the air gasification. So in the air gasification what we have is we are just limited by around 60 grams of hydrogen in the biomass then typically only 35 to 40 grams is achieved that is 35 to 40 grams of hydrogen per kg of biomass that is only achievable. And another issue is this nitrogen this nitrogen which comes with the air because air 77 percent by volume is nitrogen in the gas also we get around 45 percent by volume of nitrogen only and hydrogen is limited only around 20 percent. So then it becomes very costly or non viable to separate it once is this small amount of hydrogen in the yield as well as the low fraction. So the separation also becomes a little bit costly. So the process that can do away with this limitation is first is using the oxygen using the oxygen to eliminate to increase the hydrogen volume fraction by eliminating this nitrogen. So if you remove this automatically hydrogen fraction volume fraction will go up or approximately it will get double but yeah it will not increase the amount of or the mass of our hydrogen in the product gas but that we can enhance by using steam, steam as a gasification agent. So and we have seen with the reaction with carbon and carbon monoxide through water gas reaction and water gas shift reaction. So these two reaction so again if we look into that so these two reaction. So water gas reaction with carbon plus H2O and the water shift reaction that is carbon monoxide plus hydrogen this gives us a high amount of or excess amount of hydrogen through it and here we can get more than 100 grams of hydrogen by it and this endothermic reaction this is highly endothermic and then this is the high adiabatic temperature causes operation issues. So if we use these two alone then we face problem but if we combine these two through oxy steam gasification replacing nitrogen by steam. So oxygen fraction will still be low it will not give us operational issues and steam fraction which participates mostly in the reaction in the reduction zone will give us high amount of oxygen hydrogen by reacting with carbon and carbon monoxide. So these two combined together give us a very good stable operation of the reactor gasification system with the high amount of yield of hydrogen. So here again what is the role of steam here is one is the steam reforming, steam reforming then the water gas reaction and the water gas shift reaction. So here we can see it is the steam which is giving us this hydrogen mostly. So here hydrogen is coming from here that we have seen in the pyrolysis process also but here in the water gas shift reaction H2O is coming purely from steam and water gas reaction also hydrogen is coming purely from the steam. So typically biomass gasification, air gasification which is limited by 35 to 40 grams here we can enhance it we have got around more than 100 grams of hydrogen per kg of the biomass and that is almost 200% exa steam and this is the beauty of the system that we can use the carbon in the biomass to get the hydrogen. So and this is one of the results from the publication that as we increase the steam to biomass ratio. So this is steam to biomass ratio as we increase from 0.5 to 1 to 3 and when our hydrogen yield is also increasing so y axis is hydrogen yield is around 60 to 65 grams it goes more than 100 grams at the equivalence ratio for on point or 2.7 that is the beauty of this system of the oxy steam gasification. So this is the results as we increase the steam to biomass ratio our hydrogen yield is increasing from around 66 grams to 104 grams and typically the biomass gasification biomass contains around 60 gram and we are able to add 44 grams extra to get the 104 grams of hydrogen per kg of the biomass. So with this slide I would like to end or summarize this particular module. So here in the starting we have looked into the chemistry of the pyrolysis process we are using the bio oil reacting with a steam in a catalytic reactor to get more hydrogen and then move to the gasification process where we try to understand the air gasification the chemistry behind it how in a single reactor unlike the pyrolysis process where we have to go through 2 reactors one for pyrolysis and one for pyrolysis bio oil catalytic conversion to more hydrogen. Here in the single reactor we are able to get in the gasification process pyrolysis combustion of the volatiles and then the reduction of the CO2 in H2O by carbon that is the charcoal itself and then we use extra steam we can enhance the hydrogen production just like we did in the pyrolysis process but in a single reactor. So here we summarize the module for this pyrolysis and gasification part and the biomass part in the next module we will discuss about the coal and the coal gasification and the hydrogen from the coal in the next module. Thank you.


I'm going to show you a very easy way to be able to use all of those YouTube tutorial videos or those how-to videos and actually use them and do what they're saying to do at the same time. And I know a lot of times we have a great video and it gives you step-by-steps how to do things, but then you have to watch the video and then you go to another tab and you have to do the work, wouldn't it be great if we could pull that YouTube video out and put it right on top of our screen so that we can actually work while watching the video? Well, you can. So it's really easy to do. You go to your YouTube tutorial, so here's one just showing how to make groups of tabs in Chrome. So normally I would just play it. I'm going to show you a great way you can organize some of your tabs. So there's my tutorial, but I want to be able to actually do this while I watch the video. If you just hover on to the video itself and you right-click twice or on most devices, two finger press in the track pad. If I click it once, this pop-up comes up. If I just right-click, same thing right in the middle of the screen, again a different pop-up comes up. So right-click twice and go to picture in picture. And when I click that, it's going to take the YouTube video and pop it out here. And I can drag this around. I can even resize it a little bit. So right now this is just totally movable. Now what I can do is hit play on that. So I can continue watching it and I can go up to my tabs up here and I can start clicking things move around. I'm going to drag this over here and then I can just follow what it says to do. I've got a bunch of tabs running and I'm running a tech challenge. So I've got these one, two, three, four tabs right here that I can make a little bigger if I want. So I were to just click on each one and then I hold the control button. So I'm going to do what it says. I'm highlighting each one of these tabs right here. All four of those tabs just got highlighted. If I right-click on one of those tabs and go down to where it says add tabs to a new group. So there I go. I'm going to go ahead and pause this now. What's great is this video plays right on top of what I'm doing. So if it's too big, same thing. I can resize it and make it a little smaller. I can tuck it down here if I'm working up towards the top. But the real benefit is I can go to any one of these tabs that I'm working on. I can even minimize and just work at my desktop. This is the YouTube video that I was learning from and watching. So it stays on top of everything the whole time. It makes it really easy to watch a video describing what you should do and actually go through those exact same steps at the same time.  Go down towards the bottom. You'll see this little tiny up-and-out kind of box. When I click it, it pops right back into normal play. Really easy way to build a watch a video and interact with your device at the same time.


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G'day. How are you going? I'm going to do an unboxing today But first welcome to Wajib country. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land So this box has arrived from South Africa, and I guess you can guess What manufacturer that is? So let's get into it So this box has arrived from Jim Green in South Africa I'm very excited because it's going to be my second Jim Green, of course You'd have seen my African ranger videos But this one is the first Chelsea boot that I would have got from Jim Green and it's arrived in a nicely packaged Korea bag as usual. It's got the brick bar Dutch or Africans for fragile. So let's get it open If I can figure out how and There of course is Jim Green the frog in the Jim Green shoebox and Let's open it up and take a look So, oh, that's very nice. So as usual we have The Jim Green card talking about boot care tips. The legend was born And Here is the stopman the Jim Green stopman in Really nice smooth leather quite a wide last They're packaged nicely With cloth bags Couple of Jim Green stickers So I'm please probably go in my computer and Let's take a look at the boots as they come out. So As you can see the stopman is a Chelsea boot Very interesting goreng here, which is quite that's the kind of the most textured goreng that I've ever seen Little Jim Green tag Two pull loops front and back From what I can see it's lined on the inside with the Jim Green Removable insole the leather actually looks really nice It's built on a Commando lug sole. It's a Jim Green proprietary one It feels Quite solid and it smells a rubber. So it's quite a solid rubber compound The stitching is a stitch down construction You can see the uppers have been flanged out and then stitched down into the mid-weld the midsole I was going to say the the welp and the sole, but I think There's no wealth. I think there's just a midsole Which may be leatherboard rather than leather from the looks of the edge of it and then the The rubber sole just gets glued on to it It's fairly Solid working boot style condition, you know nothing fancy, but it's a good solid boot There's a Jim Green logo, which is not as well impressed as on my African rangers And overall a nice shape I'm sure that's going to be comfortable around the foot So now time for a bit of a try on Okay, so proof of the pudding, let's try them on. They're actually looking really nice Very nice leather, but you know, it's made for abuse. I think that went on really easily These are true to size for me. They're UK seven and a half Size which is my UK brannock size That was easy putting them on with the two pull tabs the fit is nice It's roomy. So there's absolutely no snugness there It's a structured toe and Quite roomy different from my African rangers from Jim Green, which I think if you've seen the video You see me say that I like the top of the toe box I was very conscious off on the top of my toe because it's it's quite a flatter last I think on that or made a bit flatter in the crazy horse leather these Seem to fit quite well They're comfortable underfoot The leather feels tough I Can feel a little heel slip. I think mainly because Two things I think one is I'm wearing dress socks having just come back from work And not wearing any particularly rugged boots. So Thicker socks would fit better in here I think but the other thing is I can feel already that the sole is Quite Quite stiff and that's going to need breaking in where the ball of my foot breaks But as you can see these fit well I have no hot spots and They feel pretty good. Okay, so Let's take a bit of time to go through Jim Green the stopman boot and my initial impressions So Jim Green is a South African bootmaking company three generations old They're based in Peter Maritzburg in the Quazzula Natale region of South Africa they make a series of tough work boot hiking boot Basically bush bashing related boots this is their Chelsea model called the stopman and It's designed as an all-round boot for everyday challenges It's really built for Casual comfortable wear that you might also want to wear say on a farm Or even just some basic Yard work at home It's it's it's easily capable of being worn casually going to the pub Just going out for walks and so on There's a combination of different materials here, which I might just go through quite quickly so It's made of a brown Leather I'm not sure where what the tannery is, but I'm pretty sure it's a local tannery Quite in South Africa because Jim Green tends to use local product Local labor trying to keep the economy Going for them and their employees It's made of two layers of leather 2.2 millimeters for green leather lined with a calf leather. That's 1.6 millimeters thick so overall Nearly four millimeters of leather between you and the outside The toe is structured as you can see it's quite a wide last and and quite differently from my experience of the African Rangers it doesn't sort of You know, I'm not I'm not constantly aware of that of pressure on the toe Because of the toe puff in this case. I I feel it's a little bit wider and higher The toe puff there is thermoplastic. That's like a salastic basically a Fabric that's infused with Plastics that you can warm up many and mold it and then it stiffens into shape The heel stiffener is also thermoplastic, but it's it's not particularly stiff So it's not uncomfortable The shape of the boot is quite straight up and down, but I expect that to break in and then gradually you know Form a little bum here and then straight up the Achilles tendon They do use a steel shank in this commando sole. It's a proprietary commando sole with a Jim Green label on it But similar in design to Vibram with these lugs going out and the star like lugs on the inside quite grippy I've taken it out for a walk this afternoon Just to feel the comfort and what it's like to to wander around in it. It's fairly heavy It's not Nicks or white, but it is it is it's reasonably heavy. I Was saying there is a steel shank Under this this section here between the insole board and the midsole and That steel shank provides you with extra support and stability in the arch there The insole board or or basically I think that might be also called the midsole and I think it's made of leather board is That's the part in between the uppers and the rubber lug sole you can you can see that there You can see this is this is the flanged out uppers. There's the leather board and then there's the sole The flanged out uppers will give you a clue as to the construction method It's a stitch on construction method 360 degrees so what happens is the uppers are lasted and then they're flanged out the midsole slash insole is attached with a stitch going all the way around Through the flange uppers into the midsole and then the rubber lug sole is glued on You can see The stitch Cord or thread that goes through to stitch the uppers to the to the midsole insole is Actually quite thick. It's 2.2 millimeters. It's double stitch. So there's actually a double stitch and it's braided So there you are that finishes the unboxing and my initial impressions a Really sturdy boot. I think I'm going to be enjoying taking this out for some Long walks and hikes and maybe use them around the yard for a bit of a work boot They they certainly feel sturdy enough. They fit me. Well and I think it was Under 1800 ran which is under 200 Australian dollars Plus postage isn't bad for a nice little work boot like this. It is Stitch down construction. So it's different from Aussie work boots which tend to be TPU units that are molded onto the Uppers and not necessarily re-soleable. These will be re-soleable So let's carry on and I'll bring you a long-term review in about three months time It's November 22. I'll come back in February 23 and tell you how I got on with these gym green boots