Asia

Experimental investigations of long stick wood gasification in a bottom lit updraft fixed bed gasifier
A. A. Saravanakumar, Spray Engineering Devices Limited, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 17, 2008
Long Stick Reactor

Based on the experience of the gasifier users on the efforts and energy for wood chip preparation in a typical gasifier, we have embarked on the development of a gasifier suitable to work with long stick woody biomass as the feed materials. In the context of the impact of gasifiers, as decentralized energy delivery devices such an approach, it is hoped, would be an attractive option in rural areas both in domestic and industrial sectors. In the present paper in the gasifier operation, there is a fixed quantity of char that is combusted to gasify a fixed amount of wood, and the gasifier does not operate in a steady state manner. In this present work, focus is made on the development of a gasifier using long sticks of wood as feed materials. With this concept, a 10 kW thermal output power gasifier is designed and constructed. The gas and airflows can be converted to the air/fuel ratio, the most important aspect of gasifier operation. The air/fuel ratio shows operation in a combustion mode at start up, a gasification mode for the middle part of the run and a charcoal gasification mode at the end of the run. Since the interest here is exploring and validating of this concept, a bottom lit updraft gasifier is designed mainly to look at the gas yield and other favourable factors and to use this gas so obtained for thermal applications. The rate of feed was between 9 and 10 kg/h and continuous operation for 5 h was made in a couple of runs to study the performance. In this paper we report the salient features of our efforts and results, yielding a gasifier efficiency of 73%.

This paper was published in Fuel Processing Technology
Volume 88, Issue 6, June 2007, Pages 617-622
See:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fuproc.2007.02.003

Long Sticks

Flames

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

Yingkou, China, 2008 International Training Workshop on Technology and Utilization of Biomass Gasification
The People’s Republic of China, September 1－September 20, 2008
Yongzhi Ren, Biomass Gasification Department, Liaoning Institute of Energy Resources(LIER), Yingkou, Liaoning Province, P.R. China February 16, 2008

Plant Visits and Workshop

A training workshop of MOST The Ministry of Science and Technology The People’s Republic of China

Case Studies on Small Scale Biomass Gasifier Based Decentralized Energy Generation Systems
G. Sridhar, H. V. Sridhar, Basawaraj, M.S.Sudarshan H. I. Somsekhar, S. Dasappa and, P. J.Paul
Combustion Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India
Abstract
The growth of the economy is directly linked to the availability of quality power. As per
the estimates of the Ministry of Power, Government of India [1], there is a power deficit
to an extent of 8% in the country. It is planned to mitigate this shortfall by increasing the
share of contribution of renewable sources in the energy portfolio. Renewable energy is
also intended to be used in decentralized power generation systems in order to mitigate
the power crises in the rural areas. This concept of decentralized power generation and
distribution has been successfully demonstrated in two villages of India based on Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) biomass gasification technology. One of them is a
demonstration plant which had operated for more than 15 years in an un-electrified
village named Hosahalli in Tumkur district, Karnataka. The other plant is related to the
recently installed plant at Kasai village in Madhya Pradesh under the Village Energy
Security Program (VESP) of the Ministry for New and Renewable Sources (MNRE),
Govt. of India. These two are presented as case studies in this paper along with the 5 kWe
demonstration model working at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Rural Energy and
Development (MGRIRED).

Financing Biomass Gasification Technology in Rural Cambodia ppt
SME Renewable Energy Ltd.
Cambodia Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification www.recambodia.org
Cambodia Gasifier

ARUNA Biomass Gasification S.Adhavan, Aruna Electrical Works (P) Ltd., Tamil Nadu, India November 2007 Aruna Gasifier Engine Genset

 

We are a fast growing medium scale engineering company catering to the needs of the Power Industries of both thermal and hydro power. We are in the field of Renovation & Modernization of Hydro / Turbo Generators for the past four decades having good clientele support from the nation’s power giants like BHEL, NLC, NTPC, KEB, KPTCL, TNEB, KSEB, APGEN etc.

In addition to this, we are expanding our activities into the bio energy sector by promoting the usage of non conventional energy sources. We are convinced ourselves that this could be the only solution to safeguard our nation’s environment, economy and also face the consequences of the depleting crude oil deposits. To realise this dream and give practical dimensions to our endeavor, we had enter into agreement with a premier R&D Institute for technology transfer to design & fabricate biomass gasifiers. Based on this agreement, we undertake turnkey biomass gasifer projects for power generation and thermal applications.

We are extremely thankful to you for the interest shown in our biomass gasifier based power project. This technology of ‘Future’, finds wide acceptance from small, medium and large industrial sectors by its uniqueness of lowest cost of production, simplicity in operation, absolutely free from air and water pollution.

See attached documents

S. Adhavan
Aruna Electrical Works (P) Ltd.,
Kongampattu - 605 105,
Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
Mobile:91-9443274749

Email: arunabiomass@rediffmail.com

www.arunabiomass.com 

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

IISc’s Cuba connection: A biomass gasifier will be shipped to Cocodrilo for generating power
Divya Gandhi, The Hindu,Online Edition, Karnataka. July 4, 2007
IIsc Gasifier

Development of producer gas engines

Towards Cleaner Technologies A process story on biomass gasifiers for heat applications in small and micro enterprises
Editors, Sanjay Mande, V V N Kishore, TERI Ptess for The Energy and Resources Institute and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2007 ISBN 81-7993-107-2
Competence Network for Small and Micro Learning Enterprises (Cosmile) www.cosmile.org