[AT] OT Gasifiers

[Ken Knierim]

Charlie,
     I caught Planet Mechanic's bit on making a wood powered vehicle (a
little pet project I've wanted to work on). Since this was done in Europe a
lot during WWII there are a number of references. Check out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwR18kILPWQ   This shows the gasifier (made
from what looks like a stainless steel water heater) and some other bits.

And:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator

They have some links from there. It might give you something to search on. A
lot of motive power in Europe during the war was done with gasified wood and
a lot of the available information comes out of there these days. They had a
Swedish lad on Planet Mechanic that showed the guys how to optimize the
system and get the engine fired up for the show that seemed to be quite
adept at this. Probably a little time searching and reading would yield a
rough sketch?

You can buy a kit from these folks:

http://www.gekgasifier.com/



Ken in AZ


On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:53 AM, charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> I was having a conversation off list with Ralph about gasifiers.  Does
> anyone on the list have any experience with them?  FEMA put out a paper in
> the 90's telling how to make small scale units for home or farm use.  They
> seem simple enough to build and the result is free energy if you have some
> bio-mass for fuel.  It seems to me like corn stalks or Ralphs flax straw
> would work just fine.  You might have to run it through a chopper or
>  hammer
> mill first.  Anyone ever tried to build one?
>
> Charlie
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