Flue curing of Virginia tobacco by a tube-in-basket (TiB) burner using rice husk as fuel and barn insulation

Experimental Determination of the Insulating Ability of Corn By-Products

“…They measured the strength and conductivity of the panels and feel like these panels have a promising future for materials used in low-cost housing. Dasgupta et al (1991) used rice husks to insulate barns that are used to cure tobacco. They also designed a burner that burned rice husk instead of wood when curing the tobacco.…”

Performance of an Intelligent Biomass Fuel Burner as an Alternative to Coal-Fired Heating for Tobacco Curing

“…At the start of TC, the fuel-feeding motor (6) in the fuel supply system sends BBFs from the charging bucket (1) to the furnace (12) through a round fuelfeeding channel (5) via an auger screw conveyor (14). The ignition motor (3) then began to work, passing the screwdriver rod (19) through the clamping slot (18) along a convex track (17) on the retention plate (25), and then through the outlet for the ignition rod (28) on the inner sealing plate (10), to insert the ignition device (15) into the piles of BBF in the furnace (12) and igniting them. Simultaneously, the blower (27) operates to supply oxygen for fuel combustion.…”

“…As an important type of clean energy, biomass fuel has been used in many countries that grow flue-cured tobacco [15,16], and through an analysis of existing literature and data, some researchers have agreed that the use of biomass energy is a feasible way of curing tobacco without employing fossil fuels, thereby allowing for the "greening" of the tobacco flue-curing process [17]. In the past, the most primitive form of biomass fuel involved the direct burning of agricultural straw for flue-cured tobacco heating; however, this has not been continuously promoted due to the high labor costs involved [18]. At present, the main forms of heat supplies using biomass fuel in the flue-curing of tobacco are firewood and biomass briquette fuel (BBF) [19,20].…”

Application of automatic control furnace for combustion of biomass briquette fuel for tobacco curing

“…Tobacco curing (TC) is the key link to ensuring and solidifying the quality of flue-cured/Virginia tobacco [1], which accounts for more than 80% of the energy used in the production process [2]. Coal direct combustion is widely used for heating since over a century in China, with low combustion efficiency and serious environmental pollution [3].…”