Chapter 10
Rural Electrification and Livelihood
Generation for Women Enterprises in
Rural India: Experience of Implementing
Two-Stage Biomass Gasifiers
Sunil Dhingra, Barkha Tanvir, Ulrik Birk Henriksen, Pierre Jaboyedoff,
Shirish Sinha and Daniel Ziegerer
10.1 Introduction
As part of the project, a two-stage gasifier of 20 kWe capacity, with simple cleaning
and cooling system, has been developed, tested and localized to Indian conditions.
The experience so far has demonstrated high-quality gas (tar < 25 mg/m
3 ), low
specific fuel consumption, and no wastewater generation in cleaning and cooling.
Table 10.1 shows the efficiency of the two-stage gasifier system developed in cooperation between The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) and Technical University
of Denmark, and Fig. 10.1 shows the process flow diagram of the system.
S. Dhingra (B) · B. Tanvir
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India
e-mail: dhingras@teri.res.in
B. Tanvir
e-mail: barkhatanvir@gmail.com
U. B. Henriksen
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark
e-mail: ubhe@kt.dtu.dk
P. Jaboyedoff
Effin Art, Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: pierre.jaboyedoff@effinart.ch
S. Sinha · D. Ziegerer
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), New Delhi, India
e-mail: shirish.sinha@eda.admin.ch
D. Ziegerer
e-mail: daniel.ziegerer@eda.admin.ch
© The Author(s) 2018
S. Hostettler et al. (eds.), Technologies for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0_10
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Rural Electrification and Livelihood
Generation for Women Enterprises in
Rural India: Experience of Implementing
Two-Stage Biomass Gasifiers
Sunil Dhingra, Barkha Tanvir, Ulrik Birk Henriksen, Pierre Jaboyedoff,
Shirish Sinha and Daniel Ziegerer
10.1 Introduction
As part of the project, a two-stage gasifier of 20 kWe capacity, with simple cleaning
and cooling system, has been developed, tested and localized to Indian conditions.
The experience so far has demonstrated high-quality gas (tar < 25 mg/m
3 ), low
specific fuel consumption, and no wastewater generation in cleaning and cooling.
Table 10.1 shows the efficiency of the two-stage gasifier system developed in cooperation between The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) and Technical University
of Denmark, and Fig. 10.1 shows the process flow diagram of the system.
S. Dhingra (B) · B. Tanvir
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi, India
e-mail: dhingras@teri.res.in
B. Tanvir
e-mail: barkhatanvir@gmail.com
U. B. Henriksen
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark
e-mail: ubhe@kt.dtu.dk
P. Jaboyedoff
Effin Art, Lausanne, Switzerland
e-mail: pierre.jaboyedoff@effinart.ch
S. Sinha · D. Ziegerer
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), New Delhi, India
e-mail: shirish.sinha@eda.admin.ch
D. Ziegerer
e-mail: daniel.ziegerer@eda.admin.ch
© The Author(s) 2018
S. Hostettler et al. (eds.), Technologies for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91068-0_10
113