[Gasification] Rice Husk as Gasifier Fuel

[jim mason]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

the groups are IIS, IIT, and who?

any idea why we don't see more of them on this or other lists?  it
would be great to have some of them in the group.


>  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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