Wood gas generator

 

Morning group, I have been investigating wood gas and wondered if anyone had
tried
running a small gasline generator on wood gas.
I have an old propane powered Onin about 10 kw. that I would like to run on
W.G.
If anyone has any input it would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Paul from Milton

 



Wood gas is rough enorgh on the engine....that you would be better off using
it for alcohol
production.Then use the methanol for the generator.......



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I have a 5 kw gasoline powered generator (Tecumseh 10 hp) that I'm planning
on trying to run from wood gas.  It it doesn't ruin the engine (hard to tell
with a Tecumseh) then I'll try running it on a Honda engine.

You've probably already seen these sites, but here they are anyway:

http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/index.shtml

http://mitglied.lycos.de/cturare/gas.htm

http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1981_September_October/Wood_Gas_Updat
e

http://www.windward.org/notes/notes63/wal63_b.htm

http://highforest.tripod.com/woodgas/woodgas.html

http://www.woodgas.com/

http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/producer/

http://www.green-trust.org/woodgas.htm

http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/T0512E/T0512e0x.h
tm

One source I read said that the internal combustion engine was originally
designed and built to run with wood gas.  As you probably know they were
used extensively in Europe during WWII so it must work pretty well.  Recent
studies in undeveloped countries have shown wood gas for production of
electricity to be cost effective.  The one thing that really bothers me is
that during WWII if there was no oil available to make gasoline how did they
change the oil in their engines?  I can find no mention of it.

I'm also considering using wood gas for heating and cooking, either directly
or indirectly.  I have a substantial grove of oak trees plus a lot of scrap
wood chips leftover from the work I do.

Right now my biggest obstacle is finding junk to build it out of.  There
don't seem to any scrap metal yards around where I live.  I was thinking of
using two 30 gallon steel drums to build a gasifier to run a 10 hp electric
generator.  Also I will need to learn how to weld.

 



Exactly what I was looking for
thanks
Paul in Milton

 

  Paul are you in Milton Florida?