Dear Gasifying Friends I just stopped at a rice milling plant that is about 20 km outside Battambang. It processes about 1.9 tons per hour. It is all flat belt driven and a lot of it is made of wood.
The power plant is an internal combustion engine of about 200 HP. It runs on gas. The gas is supplied by a rice hull gasifier at the back of the building where there is literally a mountain of rice hull. The gasifier looks quite modern and operates in a way that is day-and-night continuous. The rice hull is fed into the vertical reactor by an auger. The reaction zone position is not exactly constant but is maintained within certain limits. The ash/char is dropped off the top into a shallow pond to quench it. I see no reason why a small stove could not be operated in the same manner: TLUD with episodic feeding from below via a plunger of some sort. Rice hull flows easily. If the primary air control is adequate a range of 1 to 4 kW would be perfect. If anyone is interested I took pictures of the whole gas system and power plant. Regards Crispin at km post 271 outside Battambang _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
