A novel fluidized-bed gasifier was designed in which rice husk was fluidized and gasified withoutinert additives. The gas compositions of CO, CO
2, H
2, CH
4, and O
2 were determined by an onlineanalyzer and gas chromatography. The results showed that low fluidized velocity and lowgasification temperature (550-650
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C) were beneficial to the production of syngas with a highcomposition of CO. The composition of H
2 was influenced slightly by the equivalent ratio. Theaverage composition of H
2 was almost unchangeable to different fluidized velocities. The minimalfluidized velocity
vmf of rice husk without inert additives experimentally determined was 0.495m/s, which was higher than that of the two-component system containing rice husk and sand(
vmf < 0.3 m/s). The throughput of rice husk in this reactor was higher than that in a fixed bedwith the same volume. This fluidized-bed reactor had a longer service term than a traditionalfluidized bed for a two-component system.