Palm kernel shell rice husk biomass gasifier biomass gasification power plant in Indonesia

Indonesia 60KW

This project use Palm shell as fuel.

Project begins to run in the early of 2009 which can produce electricity for a small palm tree island.

Raw material / feed stock/ fuel:

Rice husk, woodchips, sawdust, bark, shavings, crop stalks, coconut hull, olive pomace, bagasse, plastic waste, palm tree .cotton straw, coal dust........

Biomass gasification principle

Biomass gasification means incomplete combustion of biomass resulting in production of combustible gases, including Carbon monoxide (CO), Hydrogen (H2), Methane (CH4), CmHn, this mixture is called pyrolysis gas that can be used to run internal combustion engines, and generate CHP. The production of pyrolysis gas called gasification is partial combustion of biomass (such as rice husk, woodchips, saw dust, crop stalk, coconut hull, bagasse, olive pomace etc.). The reactor is called biomass gasifier.

Elementary content of syngas, biomass gas, biogas

Syngas composition from feedstock wood chips

Remark: Normally, After Our gasification system, the caloricity is more than 5.83MJ/Nm3, tar and dust less than 23mg/Nm3, temperature after treated less than 45 degree centigrade.

C + O2 = CO2

2H2 + O2 = 2H2O

C + CO2= 2CO

C + H2O = CO + H2

CO + H2O = CO + H2

C + 2H2 = CH4

CO2 + H2 = CO + H2O

Water for gas cleaning and cooling can be used in a circulating way without environmental pollution after it’s treated througffh water treatment facilities such as sediment pond, and a little of making-up water required. The water pond for each unit of 200kw plant only covers about 50m2.

2.Biomass Gasification for Power generation

Power generation by using biomass gas from rice husk, wood chips, saw dust, coconut husk, bagasse, crop stalks and olive pomace can not only save electricity expenses in the production cost for rice mills, timber processing mills, farm and plantations etc., but also get benefits from selling surplus electric power to the power grid.

The engines and generator, electrical equipments should be put indoors, and other equipments could be put outdoors. The construction area for each 200kw generator set is approximate 40~50m2.

The self-consumption power rate of full set of equipment is only 5~8% of the generated power. Therefore, such a project is an ideal one with significant benefits for the area where there is plenty of biomass resources but is short of electric power supply or with higher electricity expense.

In general, the investment for major equipment can be taken back from power generation benefits within first two years. The equipment can be safe and reliable operated with operational technology that's easy to be mastered by workers, and the maintenance and repair work is similar to ordinary diesel generators.

3.FENGYU Fluid-bed Gasifier

FENGYU’s fluid-bed biomass gasifier (patented product of Fengyu Group) gets high conversion efficiency, by taking rice husk as an example, each KWH power generation consumes only 1.6~1.8kg rice husk, the unit fuel consumption will be still lower by using wood chips or crop stalks as fuel. When operation temperature is 800, the tar production ratio in fluid bed gasification furnace is about 2.5%. Tar content after decoking treatment is less than 50mg/Nm3, through strict cleaning and thermal cracking, the dust & tar content of biomass gas are very tiny, which can meet the requirement for the internal-combustion engine and steam turbine normal operation.

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