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Agri-waste burner will save energy
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Agri-waste burner will save energy
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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The Natural Resources Institute has designed a waste burner which could solve the problems of industries which have large amounts of agricultural or forestry waste and yet need energy. The NRI suspension burner, which is currently undergoing field trials at a commercial rice mill in Sri Lanka, at the moment burns rice husks as fuel for a steam boiler which parboils rice. By burning up to 140kg rice husks per hour the unit generates 1900MJ/hour, equivalent to using 1055kg of wood or 523 litres of oil per day. It is small, cheap and easy to build with locally available materials. It operates efficiently losing little energy from the furnace. The beauty of it is that it can easily be adapted to burn other particulate residues such as sawdust, coffee husks, groundnut shells or sunflower seeds. Alan Robinson, NRI, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, UK The Natural Resources Institute has designed a waste burner which could solve the problems of industries which have large amounts of agricultural or forestry waste and yet need energy. The NRI suspension burner, which is currently undergoing field... |
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1991
2014-10-08T13:40:56Z 2014-10-08T13:40:56Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 1991. Agri-waste burner will save energy. Spore 31. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45453 http://collections.infocollections.org/ukedu/en/d/Jcta31e/ |
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en
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Spore, Spore 31
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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