[Gasification] Gasification Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6

[Nikolaus Foidl]

Reply to rolf Uhles post about a saw dust gasifier or burner.
I saw several Blower burners and made my self a small blower burner using
saw dust,pergamino from coffee and other dried and finely milled organic
materials. It is a very simple but very efficient unit, you use a common
blower and suckk in from bin on top of your burner tube a certain amunt of
sawdust blowing this mixture of air and sawdust into a burning chamber.
First you start to heat the burning chamber so the radiation sets the
incomming fine particles on fire, then you just leave the blower doing his
job. Looking from the side into the burnerchamber the air- sawdustmixture is
looking like a dieselburner flame cone and you get temperatures at the end
of the cone up to 1400 degrees celcius( pergamino from coffee beans).
There are several companies who actually sell professional build multi tube
units for brick kiln tunnels.
Best regards Nikolaus