Abstract
During 140 years of commercial gasification almost every possible lignocellulosic or carbonaceous fuel has been more or less successfully gasified. However, the development work was done with the most common fuels such as coal, wood and charcoal. The normal approach was to build a gasifier and then search for a fuel that could be gasified in the unit. This practice has led to a misleading classification of fuels into suitable and unsuitable for gasification. There are fuels which have a long history of gasification such as coal and wood. From gasification of both these fuels three typical modes of gas producers evolved: updraft, downdraft and crossdraft. However the increasing use of producer gas for internal combustion engines made it necessary to obtain producer gas that was clean and cool. It was recognized that less obvious fuel properties such as surface, size distribution and shape have an important role in gasification as well as moisture, volatile matter and carbon content.
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Kaupp, A., Goss, J.R. (1984). Fuel. In: Small Scale Gas Producer-Engine Systems. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-06868-6_5
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