FUNDAMENTALS,
DEVELOPMENT, AND SCALE UP OF THE AIR-OXYGEN STRATIFIED
DOWNDRAFT GASIFIER: T. Reed, M. Graboski and B.
Levie (SERI 1988). In 1980 the Solar Energy Research
Institute initiated a program to develop an oxygen
gasifier to make methanol from biomass. A novel
air/oxygen low tar gasifier was designed and studied for
five years at SERI at 1 ton/d and for 4 years at Syn-Gas
Inc. in a 25 ton/day gasifier. This book describes the
theory and operation of the two gasifiers in detail and
also discusses the principles and application of
gasification as learned over eight years by the author-gasifier
team.
ISBN
1-890607-03-7
290pp
$40
