Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

RUIZ, J., ARAUZO, J., GONZALO, Alberto et al. Generacion de energía eléctrica a partir de la gasificación de biomasa. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 09 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000100063&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

Gasification experiments have been carried out with a atmospheric pressure downdraft gasifier of a capacity of 250 kg/h of biomass. Biomass used have been almond shells and olive cut. Results obtained show a similar behaviour in gas composition with two biomass. A small fraction of the generated gas from the gasifier has been fed to a small generator of 4 kVA. The gas has been previously cleaned and dried by means of a scrubber and a condenser, to remove tar products. The generator has been operated with a great stability without any modification, and energy generated with gas from gasification are relatively close to the values obtained with conventional fuels such as gasoline or commercial butane.

Keywords : Gasificación; biomasa; reactor Downdraft; electricidad.