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The process of gasification to produce combustible from organic feeds was used in blast

Furnaces over 180 years ago.  The possibility of using this gas for heating and power generation was soon realized and there emerged in Europe producer gas systems, which used charcoal and peat as feed material.  At the turn of the century petroleum gained wider use as a fuel, but during both world wars and particularly World War II, shortage in petroleum supplies led to widespread re-introduction of gasification.  By 1945 the gas was being used to power trucks, buses and agricultural and industrial machines.  It is estimated that there were close to 9000,000. Vehicles running on producer gas all over the world

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After World War II the lack of strategic impetus and the availability of cheap fossil fuels led

to general decline in  the producer gas industry.  However Sweden continued to work on

Producer gas technology and the work was accelerated after 1956 Suez Canal crisis.  A

decision was then made to include gasifiers in Swedish strategic emergency plans.  Research into suitable designs of wood gasifiers, essentially for transport use, was carried out at the National Swedish Institute for Agricultural Machinery Testing and is still in progress

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The contemporary interest in small scale gasifier R&D, for most part dates from 1973 oil

crisis.  The U.S. research in this area is reviewed by Goss

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 The manufacturing also took off with increased interest shown in gasification technology. At present there are about 64 gasification equipment manufacturers all over the world

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The present status of gasification technology and R&D activities will be discussed in chapter VI