NOVELTY - The biomass gasification system comprises a reactor, an absorber, a recycle line, a cyclone, a scrubbing unit (44), an engine, a cracking unit, a separation unit, a transfer line, and a contactor unit. The reactor is configured to gasify a biomass fuel in the presence of air to generate a producer gas. The absorber is configured to receive a mixture of the producer gas and tar and configured to absorb the tar into an organic solvent to produce treated producer gas and a rich solvent mixture containing a portion of the tar.    USE - The system is useful for gasifying a biomass such as a solid fuel including sawdust, agricultural wastes and wood wastes for generating a gaseous fuel.    ADVANTAGE - The system efficiently gasifies the biomass with high throughput.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - The biomass gasification system comprises a reactor, an absorber, a recycle line, a cyclone, a scrubbing unit (44), an engine, a cracking unit, a separation unit, a transfer line, and a contactor unit. The reactor is configured to gasify a biomass fuel in the presence of air to generate a producer gas. The absorber is configured to receive a mixture of the producer gas and tar and configured to absorb the tar into an organic solvent to produce treated producer gas and a rich solvent mixture containing a portion of the tar. The recycle line is configured to direct the rich solvent mixture to a biomass gasifier. The organic solvent comprises a mixture of organic waste material comprising other light hydrocarbon molecules having 9C or less. The reactor comprises an open top configured to direct the air into the reactor, and nozzles configured to direct additional air into a combustion zone of the reactor. The cyclone is configured to separate particulates from the producer gas to generate reduced particulate producer gas. The scrubbing unit is configured to scrub the reduced particulate producer gas to generate the mixture of the producer gas and tar and to cool the treated producer gas. The engine is configured to combust the treated producer gas to generate electricity. The absorber comprises absorption columns. The cracking unit is configured to break carbon-carbon bonds in the rich solvent mixture to generate a cracked solvent mixture. The separation unit is configured to separate the cracked solvent mixture into a first stream comprising first hydrocarbons and the solvent and a second stream comprising second hydrocarbons. The first stream has a lower average molecular weight than the second stream. The recycle line is further configured to direct the first stream to the absorber. The absorber is further configured to: absorb the tar into the first hydrocarbons that have a lower molecular weight than the second hydrocarbons; receive the scrubbed producer gas; and absorb additional tar within the scrubbed producer gas into an additional organic solvent to produce the treated producer gas and the rich solvent mixture containing a portion of the additional tar. The transfer line is configured to direct the second stream to the reactor. The first hydrocarbons comprise hydrocarbon molecules having 9C or less. The separation unit comprises distillation columns. The scrubbing unit is further configured to remove tar from the producer gas to generate the first stream comprising scrubbed producer gas and the second stream comprising a mixture of the removed tar and water. The contactor unit is configured to contact the mixture with the organic solvent to produce a third stream comprising dissolved tar, the organic solvent and the water. The separation unit is further configured to remove the water from the third stream to generate a fourth stream comprising the organic solvent and the dissolved tar.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic view of a biomass gasification system.    Power generation system (14)    Feedstock preparation unit (20)    Gasifier (26)    Extraction system (32)    Scrubbing unit. (44)