Experimental investigation of small-scale gasification of agricultural and forestry residues

A small scale innovative gasifier plant has been installed and operated at University of Florence facilities during a joint collaboration project with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. The plant comprises of innovative features, most important of those is the reactor capability to generate high quality gas in comparison to other fixed bed downdraft design. Different test run have being practiced feeding the system with different kind of biomass, including compacted agricultural residues, in order to evaluate the technical feasibility and the system performance on low intrinsic value feedstock.