Re: [Amc-list] Tom J. Any comments on this?

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

One nit:

Pure methane is not corrosive.  It's just one carbon
atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms.  It's the
other components of "biogas" that are corrosive
including the sulfur compounds and traces of things
like chlorine in landfill gas.  It'll definitely do a
number on ferrous metal turbine blades and engine
parts.

Pretreatment of biogas is necessary to reduce the
moisture compound and get out some of those bad
things.
Thousands of Kilowatt-hours of electric power are
being generated by waste landfill gas in this country
today, with both internal combustion engines and gas
turbines.

You still have your old copies of Mother Earth News? 
Somehow my old issues got away from me in the
eighties.  Don't know what happened to my Mother Earth
Catalog either.

Regards,
Joe Fulton
Salinas,CA
--- mikebailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've been looking back through old issues of Mother
> Earth News, following
> their experiments on methane production and uses, in
> the 70's and 80's. 
> One of the main concerns with methane gas is that it
> is corrosive.
> 

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