PROCESS FOR GASIFYING ORGANIC FIBROUS MATERIAL AND THE PRODUCT THEREOF

摘要

A method is provided for producing a combustible gas from an organic fibrous material in which a mass of free flowing pellets containing compressed organic fibrous material is supported in a substantially enclosed space. The fuel pellets are burned while supported and while air is dispersed substantially uniformly through the burning fuel. An insulating layer of fuel pellets is maintained above the fuel which provides a temperature in the burning mass at which the fuel is substantially completely consumed without ash formation and nitrogen from the air is chemically combined with products of the combustion of the fuel to produce combustible gases containing nitrogen in admixture with combustible gaseous carbon compounds. The combustible gas burns with a BTU production of as much as four times the BTU produced when the solid organic fuel from which it was produced is burned.