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Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis: Practical Design and Theory

Name: Biomass Gasification and Pyrolysis: Practical Design and Theory
Author: Prabir Basu
ISBN: 9780123749888

by Prabir Basu

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Overview

Modernized biomass gasification for power generation has attracted increasing interests as an attempt to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel. In fact, over the past couple of years, a lot of RD&D has gone into overcoming the technical hurdles of biomass gasification mainly producing clean gas which is free of particulates and tars bed agglomeration and biomass feeding/handling. Biomass Gasification Design Handbook offers engineers and scientist a hands-on reference for understanding and successfully overcoming these hurdles. In this book, readers find a versatile resource that not only explains the basic principles of energy conversion and biomass conversion systems but also provides valuable insight into the design of biomass gasifiers. Thorough in his coverage, the author provides many worked out design problems, step-by-step design procedures, and real data on commercially operating systems. In addition, the book contains valuable appendices that eliminate the need to search for essential information.

Includes step-by-step design procedures and case studies for Biomass Gasification Provides worked process flow diagrams for gasifier design.
Covers integration with other technologies (e.g. gas turbine, engine, fuel cells)

About the Author, Prabir Basu

Dr. Prabir Basu is an active researcher and designer of gasifiers with a specific interest in fluidized-bed gasification of biomass. His current research interests include frontier areas, such as supercritical gasification, as well as applied re-search dealing with biomass co-firing. He is the founder of the prestigious tri-ennial International Conference series on Circulating Fluidized Beds, and founder of Greenfield Research Incorporated, a private research and development com-pany based in Canada that specializes in fluidized-bed boilers and gasification.

Professor Basu has been working in the field of energy conversion and the environment for more than 30 years. Prior to joining the engineering faculty at Dalhousie University (formerly known as the Technical University of Nova Scotia), he worked with both a government research laboratory and a private boiler manufacturing company.

Dr. Basu’s passion for the transformation of research results into industrial practice is well known, as is his ongoing commitment to spreading advanced knowledge around the world. He has authored more than 200 research papers and six monographs in emerging areas of energy and environment, some of which have been translated into Chinese and Korean. He teaches short courses and seminars in industries and at universities across the globe. Presently, he leads the Circulating Fluidized-Bed Research Laboratory at Dalhousie University in Canada.