Suitability of Rice Straw Lignin as Boiler Fuel Christopher Zygarlicke a John Pavlish,, Jason Laumb, a and Norman Hinman b a Energy & Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota, PO Box 9018, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA 58202-9018,Learn More
In many rural communities, rice straw is used as a fuel in domestic cook stoves. Rice straw is also used in boilers for power generation. In Squint agricultural region in Jiangsu province in China, about 37% of rice straw were burned in the field during 2001 toLearn More
boilers, which are manually fired using rice husk as a fuel. Partial and uneven fuel combustion lead to smoke emission and decrease the fuel efficiency. As husks are available virtually for free, the boiler efficiency and the degree of combustion were theLearn More