[Stoves] ARECOP gasifier projects: what progress??

[psanders at ilstu.edu]

Dear Dr. Mukunda,

Thanks for your message and insights.  Wonderful to be in contact with you.

Your first paragraph deals with large gasifiers (cleaning the gases for 
engines,
etc.).  Do you have any early references from Asia about very small gasifiers
such as the IDD/T-LUD devices?  You mentioned once something perhaps 
from China
in the mid-1980s.

The Mayon stove you mentioned was the original version, not the recent 
one with
the steam booster, correct?

Sincerely,

Paul

Quoting Mukunda <mukundahs at cgpl.iisc.ernet.in>:

>
> Dear Dr. Paul Anderson,
>
> I was duty bound to respond to you much earlier on the rice husk
> gasification subject. I have not been able to locate a 1990 - 1996 timeframe
> volume called Rural energy produced from Thailand that contained how the
> rice husk gasifier went from China to Myanmar and how much of water it took
> to clean the gas for use in the engines and so on. Some experience in Mali
> of the same system has been described by Bhattacharya of AET, Thailand. You
> can do a google search on these and you will succeed in getting some info on
> them. There is a world bank report attributed to Hub Stassen a summary of
> which is published [Stassen, H.E.M., 1993. ''UNDP/WB small-scale biomass
> gasifier monitoring report, Volume 1 - Findings the final findings appearing
> in the Journal of Energy and Sustainable Development, pp 41 - 48, Vol II,
> May 1995] that contains the work in Mali.
>
> Now, regarding the projects of ARECOP - Both Dixit and myself are engaged in
> the discussions on the formulation of projects. Several of these are still
> in the stage of discussion with a lot of exchange of e-mails. Even though
> ARECOP is ready to finance the projects, project definition is going on.
> Some formal statement may become available in about a month.
>
> We have built the Mayon stove of Dr. Belonio. It does not seem to give
> consistent power. Seems to require a lot of attention. My colleague Dr.
> Dixit will give this input to Dr. Belonio and interact with him to overcome
> the hicups if any and see what the situation is. From the little that I see
> for it to work properly, it requires quite a bit of modification. We also
> not that REAP has indicated similarly. Well, everything is not identical,
> but broadly the defects that they have identified are also observed by us.
> Perhaps aturbo version may work better. But, all these are after the
> dialogue with Dr. Belonio.
>
> Regarding your visit to Cambodia - There is no project in cambodia and
> therefore you can do what you wish, there.
>
> Many regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> H S Mukunda
>
> --
> Paul S. Anderson, Ph.D., Geography professor - Emeritus
> Telephone:  USA-309-452-7072 (residence and office) Internet site:
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