Agricultural Residues

Mr Switchgrass is an inverted downdraft gasifier design that burns/gasifiers chopped switchgrass or weeds with little to no smoke problems. A rule of thumb is that each section will burn for a solid ten minutes at full flame. I measured 66 lbs for one load and it ran for about 40 to 50 minutes.

Puffergas.com

Rice Husk Gasifier Links
Tom Miles, March 6, 2008

Following are some links for Rice Husk Gasifiers

Philippines
Rice Biomass for Agriculture & Industry in the Philippines & ASEAN Bernardo D. Tadeo PhD PhilRice, Philippines (Pdf) Dec 14, 2005

Japan
R&D of Carbonizing Gasification of Biomass Wastes Kazuyoshi Ichikawa, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, March 2007

Specification and Production: Technologies of Bio--Fuels in Japan Kinya Sakanishi Biomass Technology Research Biomass Center(BTRC Center(BTRC),),AIST, Hiroshima 737AIST, 737--0197, Japan0197, Japan““

India

Design Parameters for a Rice Husk Throatless Gasifier Reactor Anil Kr Jain School of Energy Studies for Agriculture, PAU. Ludhiana, 141 004 (INDIA).2006

Myanmar

Electrical Industry of Burma/Myanmar, Online Compendium

China
Study on performance of biomass gasifier-engine systems and their environmental aspects, Zhang Baozhao, Xu Yicheng
China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, 310006, China, FAO Paper No.9403

- 160 kWe Yingkhou “Gasification of Agro-Industrial Residues for Electricity Production” in the Peoples Republic of China ENEA, IT, 2006

Indonesia

Biomass Gasification In Indonesia IEA Dresden, June 2006
Biomass for Electricity Generation: Comments on the Background Paper Directorate General of Electricity and Energy Utilization, Republic of Indonesia, 2007
- 100 kWe pilot. The project was stopped last year (2006) because problems from the tar could not be solved completely. Tar gives a negative effect to the environment and diesel engine as well.(Contact information, website link for full information.)PT. Indonesia Power, Jl.Gatot Subroto, Jakarta Selatan Indonesia. Tel. 62-21-5267666. www.indonesiapower.co.id

Open Core Re-burn Stratified Downdraft Gasifiers: References
Tom Miles, November 18, 2007
Temperatures and Gas Composition

Gasification of bamboo for electricity
Government of India, Ministry of Science and Technology, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (DST) 2007

NMBA, National Mission on Bamboo Applications http://www.bambootech.org

 

DST/ NMBA has approved the establishment of a 25 Kwe fabricated gasifier with producer gas engine at Namsai, Lohit district.
DST/ NMBA has approved the establishment of a 25 Kwe (35 kg/ hour) gasifier to provide electricity for a residential educational establishment (Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, Dahung) in Arunachal Pradesh.
DST/ NMBA will support, for off-grid and remote villages, a programme of induction of 6 bamboo gasifiers in 2007 (in the 25 Kwe - 75 Kwe range), to provide electricity to villages, or to institutions (residential schools, health sub-centres, small enterprises).

http://dst.gov.in/admin_finance/ls_9/un_sq561.htm

List of Gasifier Manufacturers working in collaboration with NMBA for induction of bamboo based gasifier systems

Vidir Biomass Greenhouse Gas Displacement System
Vidir Manufacturing, Inc., Manitoba, CAN
Vidir Biomass

PRM Energy Gasification Systems May 2007
Eneria 1 MWe

Sugarcane Leaf-Bagasse Gasifiers for industrial Heating
Rajeev Jorapur and Anil K. Rajvanshi, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), Maharashtra, India 1997

NARI

Commercial Operation of Thermogenics’ Model 103-2X-6 gasifier Update March, 2007
Leland Taylor, Thermogenics, Inc. March 2007
Model 103-2X-6 at Snyder, Texas

Validation Report of a Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Biomass Gasifier Power Plant Project in the north-Indian State of Bihar
Andreas Gantenbein, Centre for Energy Policies and Economics (CEPE), Department of Environmental Sciences (D-UWIS), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, October 2005

Cohune Charcoal
Peter Singfield, Belize, January 4-5, 2007