RED HOT NEWS: RICE HUSK GASIFIER

I'd like to share with you my leisurely fascination, particularly about crude cooking devices. I am easily attracted by some of its unique forms and sizes; and marveling on the variety of fuel sources of its glowing power.

I have been watching, buying and using so many kinds of stoves in the past, which gave me delightful moments while observing each and every performance of those lots. I liked them, but most of the time in the end, there were glitches in their make that did not escape my discriminating perusal. I don't really know certainly what I'm looking for an ideal stove, but sure, I'm always wanting to see more of something yet unknown to me, which can simply be described as an "x-factor", to settle the matter.

But this time, just lately, there is a new make in town which totally consumed my amazement. So here I go, introducing to you with pride, the brainchild of Eng'r. Alexis T. Belonio (He's name is now on Wikipedia), his RICE HUSK GASIFIER STOVE, which won for him the ROLEX Award for Enterprise in 2008.

Belonio fabricated a cylindrical contraption made of G.I. sheet, and installed a small fan blower at its base. This is a rice husk fed stove intended mainly for domestic cooking use.

To operate, pour the rice husk (as fuel) unto the hollowed center. Light a crumpled piece of paper, then put it down on top of the rice husk, then immediately switch on the fan in order to catalyze burning and stabilize air-flow upward. In less than a minute, burning gas emission on top inner rim of the cylinder becomes noticeable, and in no time, full blast gasification process will be taking place.

For me, with my simplistic technical mind, i see this stove working like a miracle. While the design is so simple, yet it took hundreds, or perhaps considered thousand years ago, that it remained untapped. The idea may have manifested among many contemporary inventive minds, but it was Belonio who prayed hard and made this small step of homework for mankind. I interpreted the output of the stove as a miracle, for how come it produces gasified fuel and ignited into bluish flame? And how extended, a 600 grams or pitcher full load of rice husk fuel in a 50cm high chamber would last giving steady flame for 20 minutes and fading ember slowly diminishing the heat for another 10 minutes. A taller and voluminous chamber can be fabricated to produce longer gasifying and burning time.

Ordinarily, we see rice husks by the roadside as if eternally in smoky state of burning, but not bursting into flame as what has been translated by the RIce Husk Gasifier Stove of Belonio. Well, the phenomenon in Belonio's stove is called "gasification process".

Let me explain: the soot given off by fire from burning husk carries carbon monoxide + air injected from the small fan beneath stirs oxygen + hydrogen in the atmosphere, becomes readily available to mingle each other to induce thermo-chemical reaction, resulting into flamable gaseous product. That is just how loosely my layman's point of view can impart the idea to your understanding.

We may not fully comprehend the nitty-gritty of chemical elements involved in the process, but the potential impact of Belonio's masterpiece is undeniably great - in the economy of every household in the countryside and a humble tribute to mother earth in its share for being nature friendly in recycling wisely what used to be a waste from the skin of our staple grain.

This is my way of propagating the modest good work of a man, in the name of the author, ALEXIS T. BELONIO.


ALEXIS BELONIO
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born :              January 1, 1960
                        Nueva Ecija, Philippines

Occupation:     inventor, innovator, professor, engineer, and scientist

Known for        Rolex Awardee for Enterprise

Alexis T. Belonio (born January 1, 1960) is a professor, engineer, scientist, innovator, and inventor from the Philippines. He was the first Filipino to receive the Rolex Award for Enterprise in 2008 due to his creation of a low-cost and environment friendly rice husk stove.  Belonio was included by the Rolex watchmaking company on its list of 10 model innovators in November 2008.


RICE HUSK GASIFIER

An eco-friendly household stove which uses scientific design of combining carbon and oxygen and transforming it to a very good quality of combustible fuel.


From the cylindrical reactor containing minimal rice husk and introducing controlled amount of oxygen, fuel gas is then produced and subsequently subjected to direct combustion in the burner assembly.


The end result is an almost transparent bluish flame equivalent to that of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG).







BENEFITS:

1. Environment friendly technology which addresses the problem on rice husk disposal.
2. CO2 disposal is very minimal compared with the traditional direct-combustion stoves.
3. Thermal efficiency is high (400-470 deg. C) hence, cooking time is relatively shorter.
4. Alternative for charcoal fired stoves.
5. Low investment cost.



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