Gasification of Agricultural Residues|农业残留物处理数据集|能源应用数据集

Excerpts: Large amounts of available agricultural residues in many cases are either going to waste or being utilized inefficiently. Since gasification of any carbonaceous material produces a combustible gas, it was considered of interest to explore the possibility of gas produced from such a source, e.g., corncobs, as e suitable fuel for internal combustion engines. In a previous publication from this Laboratory on the thermodynamics of producer gas combustion, reference was made to this work in connection with two gas compositions used in the calculations. It was pointed out that the heat of combustion of a cubic foot of a theoretical mixture of producer gas and air is only about 60 percent of that of a similar mixture containing gasoline. Various steps were suggested to overcome this deficiency. Results of past work are available in an annotated bibliography on construction, design, economics, performance, and theory of portable and small stationary gas producers, which contains more than 500 references. More recently, Lustig has published experimental data obtained at the plant of the Wellman Engineering Company with a large gas producer which uses agricultural residues, such as cottonseed hulls and others. The gas tested in a 4-cycle Bruce-MacBeth gas engine, gave satisfactory results.