[Gasification] PIA | Company demonstrates eco-friendly technology in drying palay, tobacco

[Tom Miles]

http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ 

Philippine Information Agency, the development communication arm of the
Philippine government, member of the Presidential Communications Group

Company  demonstrates eco-friendly technology  in  drying palay, tobacco

By: Maria Teresa B. Benas

Friday 8th of November 2013

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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.

 

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.

 

“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.”

 

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

 

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.  

 

Moreover, Banatao assured that the technology is eco-friendly because the
rice hull when carbonized can be used as organic fertilizer for seed
propagation.

 

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 Elveña, and the NTA staff of Abra Branch led by Ms.
Esmeralda G. Valera;  and the farmers in Sitio Quilob.

 

Elveña  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.

 

Mayor Eduarte expressed his support to the BTI technology. (JDP/MTBB-Ginalyn
Brioso – PIA CAR, Abra)

- See more at:
http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=111383832994#sthash.72xHRoyQ.dpuf

 

See also:

 

Blue Flame Technology, California 

http://bluflametech.com/about/

 

Chief Technical Officer 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.

 

 

 

 

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