Experimental Study of Updraft Gasification of Rice Husk and Coal to Produce Syngas

Fiqrei Akbar Nugroho,Allexyus Mikhael,Akhmad Syarief,Geovani Glen Supit

doi:10.21776/mechta.2021.002.02.4

Abstract

<p class="02abstracttext">Limited resource of fossil fuel inspires many research activities to search for alternative energy. This work offers alternative solution to address this problem through charcoal gasification. The goal of this research is to find the amount of syngas produced in the gasification is process. The alternative fuel was produced from the mixing rice husk and low quality coal due to their abundant resource in South Kalimantan. The mixture was then gasified at 500 °C. The highest syngas volume at 29.56 L was in the sample of SP 200 gr and BB 0 then followed at 25.7 L for ratio SP 180 gr : BB 20 gr. The lowest produced syngas 19.45 was produced from the sample with ratio SP 100 gr : BB 100 gr. This gasification process also resulted in side product, i.e. tar component which varies from 22.5 mL to 58.75 mL.</p>

Highlights

Consumption rate of fossil energy in Indonesia is still relatively high, i.e. 96% which comes from 48% for crude oil, 30% for coal, and natural gas for 18%
In this study using the type of updraft gasification, the installation of gasification equipment in this study can be seen in Figure 3 and the material in this study using biomass of rice husk and low quality coal
On the graph variation of the mixture of 140 gram rice husks: 60 gram coal with increasing time the temperature increases, the time required to reach a temperature of 500oC is 39.33oC / minute

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Introduction

Consumption rate of fossil energy in Indonesia is still relatively high, i.e. 96% which comes from 48% for crude oil, 30% for coal, and natural gas for 18%. In this case, to suppress the consumption rate we need to utilize the renewable energy but the realization is still not according as planned. Biomass is an organic material from renewable energy, one of the organic materials is rice husk. South Borneo is one of the provinces that produce a lot of rice national wide and the first in Borneo Island. South Borneo’s production is around 2.140.276 ton from 511.213 ha rice field [2]

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