Abstract
Concern for the environment, fears over dwindling resources of fossil fuels, combined with the desire to utilise agricultural land for non-food uses, have stimulated interest in farm and forest produced biomass fuels. Such fuels are bulky and expensive to transport, limiting economic haulage distances. Conversion opportunities near the point of production are most likely to be into domestic heating: a limited market, or into electricity: a large market. Electricity generation can either be by: steam plant: inefficient at small sizes and capital intensive; or gasification to run internal combustion engines: more efficient at small sizes than steam, but largely unproven commercially. Gasification at under 200kW electrical output will be by use of a downdraft gasifier producing combustible gas for a spark or compression ignition engine. The simple design of the gasifier and gas cleaning equipment combined with mass produced engines in this size range give a generating set with a low capital cost. (Author)
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Downdraft gasifiers under 200kWe.
United Kingdom: N. p.,
1993.
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Downdraft gasifiers under 200kWe.
United Kingdom.
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1993.
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title = {Downdraft gasifiers under 200kWe}
author = {None}
abstractNote = {Concern for the environment, fears over dwindling resources of fossil fuels, combined with the desire to utilise agricultural land for non-food uses, have stimulated interest in farm and forest produced biomass fuels. Such fuels are bulky and expensive to transport, limiting economic haulage distances. Conversion opportunities near the point of production are most likely to be into domestic heating: a limited market, or into electricity: a large market. Electricity generation can either be by: steam plant: inefficient at small sizes and capital intensive; or gasification to run internal combustion engines: more efficient at small sizes than steam, but largely unproven commercially. Gasification at under 200kW electrical output will be by use of a downdraft gasifier producing combustible gas for a spark or compression ignition engine. The simple design of the gasifier and gas cleaning equipment combined with mass produced engines in this size range give a generating set with a low capital cost. (Author)}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1993}
month = {Dec}
}
title = {Downdraft gasifiers under 200kWe}
author = {None}
abstractNote = {Concern for the environment, fears over dwindling resources of fossil fuels, combined with the desire to utilise agricultural land for non-food uses, have stimulated interest in farm and forest produced biomass fuels. Such fuels are bulky and expensive to transport, limiting economic haulage distances. Conversion opportunities near the point of production are most likely to be into domestic heating: a limited market, or into electricity: a large market. Electricity generation can either be by: steam plant: inefficient at small sizes and capital intensive; or gasification to run internal combustion engines: more efficient at small sizes than steam, but largely unproven commercially. Gasification at under 200kW electrical output will be by use of a downdraft gasifier producing combustible gas for a spark or compression ignition engine. The simple design of the gasifier and gas cleaning equipment combined with mass produced engines in this size range give a generating set with a low capital cost. (Author)}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1993}
month = {Dec}
}