Design & Development of Combustion cum Gasification System for Solid Biomass

R.N. Singh¹ , Shashank Jain² , Ashish Kumar³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.6 , Issue.7 , pp.72-76, Jul-2020

Online published on Jul 31, 2020

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Abstract :
Biomass resources are the world?s largest and most sustainable energy source potential for power generation in the 21st century. Numbers of technologies are available to harness this potential energy from biomass; however, biomass gasification is a promising technology among them. To increase the efficiency and applications of gasification output, modifications have been made in gasification technology. In continuation of that combustion cum gasification system was designed and developed at the School of Energy & Environmental Studies, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidayala, Indore (MP), India, and its performance was evaluated. It was working satisfactorily; however, some problem was noted. Charcoal from the gasification chamber to the combustion chamber was not flowing properly and some interruption in the flue gas pipeline was noted. These problems were solved by creating the proper slope at bottom of the gasifier chamber and providing mild steel (MS) sieve at the outlet of the flue gas pipe. Although the modified combustion cum gasification system gives better performance with medium size biomass (60 x 40 x 30 mm) and gives about 77% cold gas efficiency, however, to be used for industrial application some more systematic study is needed.

Key-Words / Index Term :
biomass, combustion cum gasification system, biomass size, cold gas efficiency

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