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[Properties of Rice Husk]
100 kW
($4000)
0.8 kW
($30)
0.3 kW
($20)
0.3 kW
($10)
Energy Content
Chemical Composition
Angle of Repose
Thermal Conductivity
Air Flow Resistance
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Low
High in Silicates
Causes Bridging
Can Put Out Fires
Darn High
Energy Content
Hull
3000 kcal / kg
Char
Ash
Ash Chemical
Composition
Al2O3
6%
Fe2O3 CaO
1% 2%
MgO Losses
2%
9%
SiO2
80%
Angle of Repose
Thermal Conductivity
Summary, courtesy of
Eldon Beagle
The high percentage of silica in rice hulls and the
peculiar silica-cellulose structure impede uniform
and thorough burning of the hulls in a combustion
process.
Eldon Beagle set a pile of rice hulls 300x500x50 on fire
and they burned for six months.
However, husk cannot be burnt easily or cleanly with
excess air, and energy recovery is very low as the heat
produced cannot be utilized in a beneficial manner.
Beagle (1978), p. 8. ,Velupillai (1996), p. 18., Ibid., p. 24. , Ibid., p. 25.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
It cant be done?
Gasification
Two-stage
Cleaner burn
More fuels
Air-controlled
Power Generation
$34 / kW
30-300 kW
Fluidised bed
Projects around the
world
$113
0.8 kW
Blue flame
Easy to control
Batch operation
Continuous Quasi-Gasification
$30
0.3 kW
Continuous operation
Easy to start
Emissions?
$20
0.3 kW
Chimney provides
necessary draft
Future?
TEG (or thermopile) to power fan
More autonomous continuous stove
Blue flame on natural draft stove
More options for cooking surface
construction
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sources
No other plant offal even approaches the amount of silica found in rice husks. Beagle, E.C.
1978. FOA Agricultural Services Bulletin 31, p. 8.
http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/content/continuous-flow-rice-husk-gasifier-thermal-application