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This chapter deals only with small and medium sized fixed bed gas producers with the oxygen for partial combustion supplied from ambient air. There has been no significant development in the design of these gas producers for the last 50 years. Today’s gas producers are built out of better heat resisting material such as high temperature alloys and longer lasting refractories but the design itself has shown very little change over the past century. The dramatic advancement in understanding combustion and transport phenomena in gases has certainly not changed the engineering principles of gasification nor contributed anything important to the design of a plant. However, it has provided a microscale understanding of the gasification process and its sensitivity to minor changes in the gas producer geometry, fuel size and general operation. Its sensitivity, known quite well during the booming years of gasification, has resulted in detailed operating manuals in particular for large plants, where a shut down is much more serious than in smaller or portable plants. The general rule was that a well-designed gasifier is as good as the man who operates it and this principle seems to still be valid.
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Kaupp, A., Goss, J.R. (1984). Gas Producers. In: Small Scale Gas Producer-Engine Systems. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-06868-6_4
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