[Gasification] energy for villages

Tue Apr 24 08:27:44 CDT 2012

Dear Pannirselvam,
a company called Ankur in Vadodara (Gujerat) provided us with the
technology.  They make the gasifiers. Another company in Agra (U.P.) makes
the engines and a third one makes the electricity generators. Ankur puts
them all together. Our generator generates 5 kW electricity. It is operated
for about three hours in the evening to provide light to the houses. There
are also a few street lights. Some families have also purchased television
sets since they have electricity. Their village is on the top of a hill and
the women used to come down into the valley to get their grain ground and
again climb up the hill with the flour. Now they have a flour mill in their
own village. There is no motorable road to reach the village. The hardware
was dismembered and physically carried up to the village by the people. The
individual components were reassembled in the village.  We also wanted to
construct a biogas plant in this village to supplement the producer gas,
but we ran out of money.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Pannirselvam P.V <pannirbr at gmail.com>wrote:

>             Dear    Anand  Karrve
>
>                           Kind regrads  and congratulation to  you . The
> way to gasification of biomass waste  into wealth  to  decentralized
>  people  made  small  biopower using biogas  , producer gas cheaper  piston
> engine   to  the  rural mass compared to the centralised  steam turbine and
> gas turbines , capital intensive ,  with more power loss during
> distribution  has  many social , environmental economical and technical
> problems .In this context  very glad to to know  your sucess story.
>  Inthis context your practical work , India  giving exmaples  to other
> world  so that Brazziil , Africa , china need to follow  the lesson learned
> by you.
>    You have  clearly mentioned  2 alternatives  of  biogas , and producer
> gas .
> As you also woke much  with pyrogas , can slow pyrogas  used  in biogas  ,
> can this make more water gas  shift  CO  to hydrogen  and also metahne  ,
> reduce acids in pyrogas.
> Can the combined pyrogas and biogas , biothermal process more  simple  and
> more Appropriate  than producer   gas  gasification
>   Can you  give more  brief  details about the  details about  how the
>  samll energy produced for 35 household .Is it combined  bigas and producer
>  gas or stand alone engine running  two seperate  engine for each case
>
>   King regards
>
> Pannirselvam .P.V
> North East Brazil
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Dear gasification enthusiasts,
>> I delivered a keynote address on 23rd February in Tokyo, Japan, before a
>> workshop on the theme "Bottom of the Pyramid". The workshop was arranged by
>> Japan External Trade Organization, and it was meant to tell the
>> Japanese industrialists what they could do for the poor in the third world.
>> My main theme was that the people belonging to the bottom of the pyramid
>> lived in villages, where the opportunities to earn money were extremely
>> limited. The main impediment in the way of even small scale industries
>> being opened in villages was the lack of electricity, and therefore I
>> pleaded that the agricultural waste should be converted into energy. This
>> is already being done all over the world by the cane sugar industry, which
>> uses the bagasse as the source of energy. In the sugar factories, they use
>> the steam turbine technology, which is rather sophisticated, but in the
>> villages they can use the gasification technology with producer gas and
>> biogas being the two alternatives for driving internal combustion engines,
>> which in turn motivate electricity generators. Our own Institute is already
>> providing electricity generated by this method to 35 households in a remote
>> village in India.
>> I am taking this opportunity just to make a wider circle of technicians
>> aware of the benefits that gasification of biomass can bring to the rural
>> poor.
>> Yours
>> A.D.Karve
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