Can gasification be reliable as a fuel source?
aSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Rd., Wuhan 430074, China bSchool of Environment and Materials Engineering, Yantai University, 32 Qingquan Rd., Yantai 264005, China Received 10 November 2008; revised 16 November 2008; accepted 17 November 2008. Available online 4 January 2009. Abstract Biomass micron fuel (BMF) produced from feedstock (energy crops, agricultural wastes, forestry residues and so on) through an efficient crushing process is a kind of powdery biomass fuel with particle size of less than 250 μm. Based on the properties of BMF, a cyclone gasifier concept has been considered in our laboratory for biomass gasification. The concept combines and integrates partial oxidation, fast pyrolysis, gasification, and tar cracking, as well as a shift reaction, with the purpose of producing a high quality of gas. In this paper, characteristics of BMF air gasification were studied in the gasifier. Without outer heat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasification There is at present very little industrial scale biomass gasification being done. Examples of demonstration projects include those of the Renewable Energy Network Austria Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
