Alexis Belonio is an associate professor in agricultural engineering at the Central Philippine University of Iloilo City. In 2008 he received a Rolex Award for Enterprise for a rice-husk-burning stove he designed. Belonio’s stove is not complicated, either mechanically or conceptually: A columnar metal burner with the addition of a small intake fan at the base to tip the stoichiometry of combustion towards oxidation, giving a blue, clean, efficient flame that leaves little or no residue. Traditional rice husk burners, by contrast, do not have this forced-air feature and produce a yellow, dirty, inefficient flame that leaves tar behind. The upshot is more efficient use of rice husk biomass and greatly reduced pollution from the many rice-husk burners in use today.
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An awesome project. But you’re missing a link to Belonio’s Rice Hust Gas Stove Handbook — 155 pages of design diagrams, alternate designs, test data, etc.
http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/Belonio/Belonio_gasifier.pdf
you can also visit the Center for Rice husk Energy Technology at http://www.crhet.org for more information
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