[Gasification] Producer Gas Engine Paper

[Ken Boak]

An excellent paper - it confirms our suspicions that producer gas can be
used at higher compression ratios - 17:1 which is typical of a diesel engine
converted to spark ignition.




Ken

On 28 June 2011 22:11, Erin Rasmussen <erin at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Sridhar recently forwarded us information about his paper about Producer
> Gas Engines. It is an interesting paper, and we've posted a link to it from
> the gasification web site, but you can also get it directly from the
> publisher with this link.****
>
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>
> G. Sridhar and Ravindra Babu Yarasu (2010). Facts about Producer Gas Engine
> , Paths to Sustainable Energy, Jatin Nathwani and Artie Ng (Ed.), ISBN:
> 978-953-307-401-6, InTech,  Available from:
> http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/facts-about-producer-gas-engine
> ****
>
>  ****
>
> To sum up, they connected an engine that has been designed to run on
> producer gas, to a downdraft gasifier, and recording and analyzing the
> results. There may be some surprises here, like the lack of knock at higher
> compression ratios, and the information gathering is both sound, and
> beautifully presented.  ****
>
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> Cheers,****
>
> Erin Rasmussen****
>
> TR Miles Techical Consultants Inc.****
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> erin at trmiles.com****
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