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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ">http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ</a></span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Philippine Information Agency, the development communication arm of the Philippine government, member of the Presidential Communications Group<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:29.0pt;color:#2F55A6'>Company demonstrates eco-friendly technology in drying palay, tobacco<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='text-transform:uppercase'>By: Maria Teresa B. Benas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b>Friday 8th of November 2013<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> 5</span> <span style='color:black'> 0</span> <span style='color:black'> 1</span> <span style='color:black'> 0</span> <span style='color:black'> 2</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>TAYUM, Abra, Nov. 8 (PIA) -- Bluflame Technology Inc., (BTI), a subsidiary of a US based company, conducted a demonstration on the use of the bluflame gasifier in drying palay at a multipurpose curing barn at Quilob, Tayum last November 6.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>BTI Chief Executive Officer Vic Banatao said their goal is to bring an efficient, renewable and low cost power source in the country using biomass gasification technology. The BTI gasifier he said uses the principle of gasification or pyrolysis as uses rice hulls as the fuel source.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>“Gasification undergoes four overlapping process, each with fundamental thermal and chemical reactions. During drying, heat is added to the rice hull to remove water and decrease the moisture content. In the pyrolysis stage, heat without air is added to the rice hull to produce tar and charcoal. Combustion occurs when oxygen or air is added to the tarry gas and charcoal to produce water and carbon dioxide. Finally, during reduction, the carbon dioxide and water are added to the hot charcoal to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>Banatao explained the many benefits the BTI gasifier can give to the farmers. Unlike the typical method of drying palay along the road where losses could reach from five percent up to 10% due to some factors, the BTI gasifier guarantees zero percent loss. He stressed that it is very convenient in any type of weather because farmers can dry their harvest even during the rainy season or during typhoons<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>It is an alternative source of energy for drying because it doesn’t use firewood or coal but utilizes instead waste materials like rice hull, corncob, sawdust, and corn husk. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>Moreover, Banatao assured that the technology is eco-friendly because the rice hull when carbonized can be used as organic fertilizer for seed propagation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>The said demonstration was witnessed by the local officials of Tayum led by Mayor Placido Eduarte, Jr.; National Tobacco Administration (NTA) Board of Director Rogelio Elveņa, and the NTA staff of Abra Branch led by Ms. Esmeralda G. Valera; and the farmers in Sitio Quilob.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>Elveņa remarked that BTI gasifier is not only made for drying palay but can also be used for tobacco thus a solution to the tobacco drying concerns in the province. He informed that NTA Administrator Edgardo D. Zaragoza has endorsed said technology because is low-cost and beneficial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:15.5pt'>Mayor Eduarte expressed his support to the BTI technology. (JDP/MTBB-Ginalyn Brioso – PIA CAR, Abra)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>- See more at: <a href="http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ.dpuf">http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ.dpuf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See also:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blue Flame Technology, California <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://bluflametech.com/about/">http://bluflametech.com/about/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify'><b>Chief Technical Officer</b> Dr. Valentino Tiangco currently works as the CTO of BluFlame Technology and the Biomass Program Manager for the Energy Research & Development Department of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Sacramento, CA. His thesis work on rice hull gasification has inspired a multitude of commercial energy products around the world. He has over 20 years of broad experience as a program & project manager, energy specialist, designer, test engineer, professor and researcher. Val has received numerous awards, including several from the California Energy Commission.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>