Vol. 5 (4) : July-August 2014 issue
Green Farming Vol. 5 (4) : 678-680 ; July-August, 2014
Development and testing of rice husk gasifier stove for North East region in India
ALOK GORAa1*, GAJENDRA PRASADb2, NITIN KUMARb3 and SANTANU MALAKARb4
aDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, C P College of Agriculture, SDAU, S K Nagar - 385 506 (Gujarat)
bDepartment of Agricultural Engineering, Assam University, Silchar - 788 011 Dist. Cachar (Assam)
Designation : 1,2,3Asstt. Professor *(alok.gora@gmail.com), 4Ph.D. Scholar
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-1328
Total Pages : 3
Received : 14 January 2014
Revised accepted : 27 June 2014
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Citation :
ALOK GORA, GAJENDRA PRASAD, NITIN KUMAR and SANTANU MALAKAR. 2014. Development and testing of rice husk gasifier stove for North East region in India. Green Farming Vol. 5 (4) : 678-680 ; July-August, 2014
ABSTRACT
The developed gasifier stove mainly consists of three units namely, reaction chamber, ash chamber and burner assembly. The diameters of inner and outer cylinder of reaction chamber are 15 cm and17cm respectively and its height is 53 cm. The reaction chamber shall accommodate 1.08 kg of rice husk. The second unit is ash chamber, which is placed below the reaction chamber. The ash chamber has capacity of 0.009 m3 and consists of a fan and grate. This whole project involved various method and process such as concept design, analysis process and fabrication process. The developed stove is found to be worked satisfactory with the rice husk having 12 % moisture content. The start-up time of the rice husk fuel in the stove is about 3 to 6 minutes, which was found to be lesser for the half load compare to the full load. The time required for the fuel to produce flammable gas is 40 to 72 seconds. The total operating time was 22 to 27 minutes when the reactor is fully loaded with fuel, while it was 17 to 24 minutes when the reactor is ¾th loaded with fuel. At half load of the reactor, the total start-up time was 9 to 17 minutes. The fuel consumption rate of the stove was from 2.43 to 2.5 kg per hour. Boiling time for half liter of water (from 27 °C to 100°C) requires 10 to 12 minutes while for a liter of water, it varies from 17 to 20 minutes and for 1.5 lit. of water, it ranges from 28 to 38 minutes. The developed gasifier has many advantages such as low cost, simple operation, energy conservation, effective utilization of biomass, less pollutant, time saving cooking and reducing emission of gases.
Key words :
Biomass, Domestic stove, Gasification, Gasifier stove, Rice husk