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This plant uses cobs to dry corn
WATERMAN 111 A DeKalb Agßesearch, Inc. biomass materials such as
combustible gas made from Cobs are a low value by- wood isn’ta new science. In
com cobs is drying seed com product of seed corn Europe, where fossil fuels
this fall at the Waterman, production. are more scarce Mid higher
Illinois seed com plant of The gasification of priced, wood gasification to
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operations for DeKalb, displays some of the cobs the company is using in its new
cob gasifier that is used to dry a portion of its hybrid seed production crop. Once
burned they are extremly light in weight and black like charcoal.
Cob Hopper
Feeder
Agitator
Grata
This simplified drawing of DeKalb’s Waterman, 111. seed drying facility shows
■taCto-the cobs come in at one end to be burned and the resulting warm air is used
to dry grain.
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provide fuel has at times
been common.
For example, many
vehicles in Europe were
operated on wood-gas during
World War II when oil
becomes scarce. Cars and
trucks carried, or pulled on
trailers, their own wood
gasifiers.
Since the beginning of the
energy crisis in the United
States, biomass gasification
has received renewed at
tention. An eastern company
built and drove across the
country a wood-gas
automobile, and researchers
at the University of Florida
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