APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF RICE HUSK FURNACE

The energy-rich substance to have high energy content as thermal mass can be used directly or converted into other energy forms to serve the needs of human beings, such as light, heat, and power, which acts as a carrier of energy resources. A biological thermal mass with fixed energy content is created by photosynthesis via solar radiation. The regular production of biological thermal mass is closely related to the outcome of agriculture practice. As rice is the staple food of many oriental nations, the accompanied product of rice as rice husk is said to be a representative of biological thermal mass. Biological thermal mass usually can be used with different phases: gaseous (hydrogen and biogas), liquid (bio-diesel and bio-ethanol) and solid (ingot type solid derivative and directly burning). The direct burning of solid thermal mass is the most convenient application way and needs the application cost to be low. This form of biomass application is considered to be one of the future renewable energy application development focuses. The husk incineration furnace, related to application and the energy conversion technology, will be fully investigated in this research.