TITLE:
Wood Pyrolysis in Pre-Vacuum Chamber
AUTHORS:
Hiroki Homma, Hiroomi Homma, Yusrizal , Muhammad Idris
KEYWORDS:
Pyrolysis; Rubber Wood; Pre-Vacuum Chamber; Pyrolysis Yields
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems,
Vol.3 No.4,
December
3,
2013
ABSTRACT: Climate change, global warming, and energy crisis are
critical issues to be solved urgently in a global framework. Alternative energy
and renewable energy technologies must be quickly developed to be substituted
for fossil fuels like oil, gases, and coal. USA, UE, and Japan invested huge
budgets to develop biomass renewable energy technology. Their target is to
develop a commercial base large-scaled plant. On the other hand, in developing
countries, especially in rural areas, people who can access electricity is
still less than 70%, To decelerate or prevent global warming and improve
electrification in rural areas, a new technology for wood pyrolysis, which
requires low manufacturing cost and less maintenance, and of which gases are
directly applicable to the gas engine generator, is developed
in a laboratory scale. This paper reports the performance of this new plant and
effects of several parameters on the performance. It is concluded that the new
technology is quite feasible in rural areas, and upgrading of the plant is
easily possible.