On Friday, March 6th, the first test run of a gasifier producing alternative energy using rice husk was conducted in a rice mill on the Essequibo Coast, a release from the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
The release said that Ramlakhan & Sons Rice Mill at Exmouth, Essequibo Coast, was the first to take the initiative and purchase a Gasification Plant. The plant arrived late last year and the installation and successful testing were recently completed. The rice husk will fuel the gasifier and the gases emitted are swept of solid particles, tar/carbon and water/moisture, and directed into the combustion chambers of a 250 KW powergen set, replacing 70 % of the diesel required to run the genset, the release said.
Ramlakhan was quoted in the release as saying that this will greatly reduce his energy cost and improve his viability at a
