Dear Marcelo,

Follows Brazilian experiences using biomass for electric generation. They are in Portuguese but the bibliography provides information in English.

http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=MSC0000000022004000200006&script=sci_arttext

http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semexatas/article/view/10186

http://www.aneel.gov.br/aplicacoes/atlas/pdf/05-Biomassa(2).pdf

General information about the use of biomass are found in CENBIO (National Reference Center on Biomass):

http://cenbio.iee.usp.br/indexen.asp

I hope that helps.

Best regards,

Vanessa

Dear Marcelo

in Researchgate, you can follow Xoán Ramón Doldán, with some surveys in this field

Contact, Soalar and Biogas research center, at Birla Engineering College, V.V.Nagar, Gujarat, India-388120., if possible. They are running, I.C engine, with wood debris.

What size of generators?

The Combustion, Gasification and Propulsion Laboratory where I spent some forty years has done substantial work in this area - for power from a few kWe to several MWe using biomass gasification, thermal power generation from 1 kg/h to 100 kg/h for coarse thermal applications and 100 to 1000 kg/h of thermal biomass gasifiers. By biomass is meant briquetted agroresidues or chipped wood in a range of sizes depending on the power level. All the scientific and technological is documented in accessible web location - http://cgpl.iisc.ernet.in. If there are further scientific or technological questions of any nature I will be able to respond.