Investigation on the feasibility of retrofitting clay brick kilns with downdraft biomass gasifier

Abstract

The direct firing of biomass in conventional production processes creates a huge impact on environmental protection deforestation climatic change and human health Therefore research has been focussed on the implementation of renewable energy sources with appropriate energy conversion technologies to replace the conventional systems and overcome environmental issues In the last two decades gasification of biomass has been widely used for power generation heating and cooling applications which leads to the attention of planners researchers and entrepreneurs throughout the globe Gasifiers used for biomass gasification are effectively used in sugar industries newlinerice mills agro-processing industries etc However many other industries are yet to implement gasifiers in their thermal applications newline newline