[Gasification] Rice Husk as Gasifier Fuel

[Tom Miles]

Nitin, 

It is important to be specific about which Indian gasifier designers you
refer to because there are different gasification approaches in India. As
nearly as I can tell there are about three major groups making gasifiers
comprising many manufacturers. 

I would be interested to hear how the staged open core and stratified
downdraft gasifiers used in India differ in peak gasification temperature
and operational characteristics compared with what Dough has described as
the Fluidyne modifications of the Imbert design.


Tom
  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org [mailto:gasification-
> bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Nitin Ahire
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:04 AM
> To: gasification at listserv.repp.org
> Subject: [Gasification] Rice Husk as Gasifier Fuel
> 
> Hello,
> Some of the Indian Gasifier Designers are predicting good efficiency &
> low tars even when fuelled with "Loose Biomass " specifically rice
> husk, where briquette is not required. But when  I visited Fludyne's
> site they have mentioned that rice husk is difficult to gasify & can
> result in lots of tars, also only surface carbon will burn.
> 
> If anyone is familiar with Indian Systems please clarify above points.
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