Affiliations: Department of Automobile Engineering, K.S.R College of Engineering, Tiruchengode, TN, India | Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Road and Transport Technology, Erode, TN, India
Note: [] Corresponding author. R. Rameshkumar, Department of Automobile Engineering, K.S.R College of Engineering, Tiruchengode, 637215 TN, India. E-mail: rameshsumi@gmail.com
Abstract: Biomass is an important primary source of renewable energy source. Producer gas, a derivative of Biomass, comprises of tar and particulate content which is harmful and critical parameter for IC engine application, which influences the design of filter. Numerous researchers have developed various types of filter for gas cleaning system in order to reduce the tar content and particulate in producer gas. In this work, an experimental investigation has been carried out on the newly developed hybrid compact filter using two different feeds such as rice husk and wood. The experimental results obtained were used to justify the newly developed system with adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system(ANFIS). The data has been collected taken from an experimental database of a 20 kW open core downdraft TNAU(Tamil Nadu Agricultural University)-modified gasifier with compact hybrid filter system. A comparison between the predictions of ANFIS model with other available model in literature is presented. The ANFIS results reveal that the model delivers the tar and particulate content with an accuracy of 99.98%. The test results prove the possibility to develop and evaluate an ANFIS based model to predict tar content and particulate for any filter design under varying input conditions.
Keywords: Biomass gasification, tar and particulate, adaptive neuro fuzzy system, prediction
