Ok, I'm an old time country boy thats learned a lot of southern ingenuity the hard way over his life, but you young man, have officially blown my mind, and that's no easy task. Job well done sir. I hope we end up in the same tribe/community when the shtf. ;-)
You friggin genius.....it appears I have to up my game a bit. Thank you for clear and easy to understand explanations of each step with out extra verbal spillage. Subscribed!
Wow, thank you. That may have been the most comprehensive vid I’ve seen yet on both the concept and the detailed construction, with detailed footage....too many on here make me sit through guitar music and life story then gloss over details and even miss them with video , after patiently waiting for it.
Ahhh, it's always a good thing when a new gasifier comes into existence :) . I rely on mine every winter to keep me up and running. Watt a great thing these are.
That is some large brain engineeringly. Amazing that some people retain such information while others complete their cycles without ever having even a smattering of such knowledges. I am amused, thank you for the video.
There are multiple ways that a gasifier can be built and function each one produces different amounts of different elements. The gasifier in the truck gasifier build video is a thermal cracking unit that reaches a high enough temp over 2000 deg. to crack the molecular bonds in the gases that pass through the reaction zone. So it separates things like water molecules into HHO gas, and CO2 into one part CO and a free O, the free O binds with a carbon atom in the burn zone becoming another CO.The O separated from the H2O binds with a carbon atom in the burn zone becoming CO, so the main composition of the gas produced is two parts hydrogen 3 parts carbon monoxide. Now when the gas is burned in the engine the 2 hydrogen's bind with an oxygen molecule and becomes H2O and the CO also binds with an oxygen and becomes CO2 both of which can be re-fed into the reaction chamber and turned back into gas creating a almost closed loop system only requiring air to be supplied.Let's follow a single 2H3CO chain in a closed loop reactor and see what it becomes. First it is burned in the engine becoming 1 - H2O molecule and 3 - CO2 molecules, we re-feed it into the reactor as engine exhaust, now the H2O becomes 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part carbon monoxide, and the 3-CO2 molecules becomes 6 parts CO. So we have 2-hydrogens and 7-carbon monoxides. Run that once more and a pattern becomes apparent..The 2H7CO gas is now burned in the engine and exhausted into the reaction chamber as H2O and 7 parts CO2, once again its forced through the burn zone and the water becomes 2HCO and the 7-CO2's become 14 part's CO. So on its third pass through the reactor our starting chain went from 2H3CO to 2H15CO. At a point the excess carbon monoxide can take over as the reaction chamber fuel source ending the need for more wood to be supplied to continue the process. Now none of this incorporates the fact that the fresh air drawn into the burn chamber and in the engine contains extra CO2 and CO as well as random hydrogen atoms, from the moisture bearing air which will provide a runaway hydrogen effect in the system as well, in fact the the more humid of a climate you live in the faster the hydrogen runaway starts. (Now when this is done right as a closed loop system), so when the system has built up enough carbon to continue supplying both thermal energy and free carbon atoms there becomes an excess of one gas in particular and that is oxygen, this over abundance of oxygen can either be expelled from the system as the waste gas or compressed and used as the oxygen supply to both the reactors burn zone and as the oxygen needed in the combustion zone of the engine. So this means that once the system is at full temp and the internal working gases are up to sufficient levels, it will clean the carbon based molecules from the air use them as fuel and expel oxygen as its exhaust gas. The bad air in a city could be used as energy and in return we would clean the air, by using thermo-molecular reforming and thermo-molecular fracturing we can re-capture and re-use a substantial portion of the waste created from the last 50 years of carbon emissions Right know the closed loop system produces an over abundance of both nitrogen and oxygen atoms, we are attempting to combine the two, to form NO2 which can be fed directly into the reactors burn zone increasing the temperature to around 3000 deg. This allows the gasifier to burn metals as well as organic compounds,( metals can be gasified) in short allowing you to turn pop cans and tin cans, glass, batteries, and just about every other standard household trash item into fuel for use at home or in a vehicle. This can also be achieved with a plasma gasifier, basically a bunch of plasma cutter tip's all aiming into a central position as the reactor burn zone and arcing at the same time.
Would love to see a video building and explaining this, as well as what NwoDispatcher said about the possibility of running a steam engline hybrid? would something like that be possible? I love the idea of the closed loop system and recycling the extra gases, would love to see this made.
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Say whaaaat? Wow, impressive and futuristic 'lecture'. Thank you doc.
@@NwoDispatcher - You could run a Stirling out of the exhaust cooling (lower power), or a high-temp-diff Stirling (full power) from the output burning the produced gas.
probably an opportunity to stick a heat exchanger on that thing, take some of that heat off it to heat water or something, cooling off the gas, warming up a house
saw this in recommended videos and I come from a electrical/tinkering background. I've been thinking of making a system to generate electricity using an old yet to be acquired gen set. Thank you for posting this video and doing the work you do for us on yt
What I love about folks that 'just do it', is they don't waste our time with some 'ummms', 'well let me tell yaz', and 'I'm going to make a book out of this'... Just show it, this guy just shows it (maybe too concise, but thank you for your efforts to not waste my time). And this dude's hand/s look as if he actually does work for a living/fun. Gets it done. The end game would make sense to submerge the 'radiator' pipe into water, and use that as cooling, and your hot water source for the tiny/normal/gigantic house.
So if I understand correctly, the gas is to be used as it's being generated. The system is not set up to store the gas under pressure for later use. That sounds like it would require passing it through a pretty sophisticated refrigeration system, and safety would be a primary consideration. Don't want any oxygen mixed with it for storage. I've seen pictures of automobiles rigged for wood gas fuel in Japan during WWII, in some Time-Life books published 4 decades back. Sounds great, if you have a metal shop. At age 50 I took a High School vo-tech welding welding & metal-fab course when I was living on a small ranchlet/farm w my wife and her sister & kids some years ago. Restored and used her Grandpa's 1950's woodworking tools, and a 25-year-old Shopsmith. But what you've done goes way beyond my metal crafting skillset. My hat's off to you, sir!
I think you're a genius, I live in the city Chicago IL,, Middle age now, my younger days me & buddy's would go to the woods,, I'm gunna try & build me a cabin someday. tons of Kool stuff on RUclips, Thanks for doing this video.
Man i have never seen anything like this ever and you made it with no secrets everything exposed what can i say you are a bloody genius thank you so much for this Paul Djerassi Ireland.
I have been watching your videos for quite awhile now, and almost every time I watch one, one thing comes to my mind...YOU ROCK!!! I believe that God has given you a special gift. Just like the Franklins, the Da Vincis, and the Teslas of this world, you are a VISIONARY. Thank you, for the videos. Oh, by the way, In case the country's power grid goes down for a long time(or forever), where do you live? Ha ha.
OK watched 17 min of your video and really well explained and easy to get it. Well done and thanks. Here is the thing though. Why not just use the wood to cook with?
I love this design, very simple yet very effective. I have a 7.5 KW Generac generator that runs on LP, I plan to convert it to wood gas at some point. Thank you very much for the video!
Itt is obvious to me that there is a lot of potential in smoke that a gasifier utilizes & that I was unaware of! I have seen other contraptions used as a gasifier but, they were more intricate. Yours, I like & seems much simpler!
too cool :) a nice simple design; albert would appreciate. you're a very thoughtful engineer. would love to see some cool and practical applications in use.
My uncle has a wood furnace based on this principle for over a 15years. Only smoke from his chimney comes out before he reaches the right operating temperature, then it's just absolutely no smoke coming out. And to heat up 2 pieces of 1500L water tanks takes few pales of wood. And they he has hot water for whole week, tanks are very good insulated.
Great explanation! Have you tried angling the lower air inlet tubes to one side as well as down? This would create a vortex that would most likely spin the gases all the way up the burn chamber maximizing their mixing and increasing burn efficiency.
I would think creating a vortex for burn efficiency would negate the purpose of making smoke. Too good of burn would burn the gas before it would leave. Need cool smoke, not hot smoke. This is supposed to be a gassifier, not a jet stove. Remember, he had plugs made for air tubes so could shut down air flow for more smoke.
You Sir are beyond a doubt in a league of your own! Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to communicate with you, I have collected several items , mostly tanks. I was wondering if this particular system will power a vehicle?I have a old E350 460 CID and I was thinking this would be a good candidate for a wood gas project 🤷♀️
Thanks for sharing, like others have said, a very easily understood video. It was all well thought out and clearly explained. I personally would like a bit wider base for more stability.
Mr.---You are a very skilled and talented person! A problem---the average person, even educated, can not understand the special tech. jargon expressed! thank you!
for you guys wanting to compress this be very careful if you compress a combustibale gas and oxygen even accidentally gets in the mix you just created a bomb that will flash explode faster than you can imagine i learned this when i was 16 and wanted a portable cutting torch so i took an empty helium can from a science expirement and started my cutting tourch mixed it to neutral flame snuffed it out in the dirt and proceeded to pressurize my helium can... when done i lit a candle and called my sister to watch i squirted the bottle at the candle and there was no flash just an explsion that blew the can seem in half and blew both ends off the bottom stuck in my chest about half an inch so i had a trip to the hospital... lesson learned no flamable gas compressed WITH oxygen....EVER!!! even a sandwich bag with a black cat firecracker will demolish an open ended metal coffee can....
Yeah never compress gas unless you know every aspect of it I run a 5.3 modified engine on wood gas runs like a champ runs power heat and air conditioning all thermal mass 😁
Yeah, good reason to supply the Oxy-Gas welding rig from two bottles. A second problem that could have caused an explosion is that Acetylene is unstable as a gas under pressure, in the welding set it is dissolved in acetylene and safe that way but what you cooked up was pretty much the opposite of safe. Glad you lived to tell the tale.
In my vocational welding class / jr. yr. some idiot filled a plastic garbage bag with acetylene and oxygen tied it off and threw it under the guy using the cutting torch station ; he was blinded for a while. ps. they also welded pipe . . mini polish canons enough to just fit a marble, they were so powerful when they hit the 6ft industrial fans it would stop them cold for a bit. I should have received combat pay for attending that school!
you are the man I will say!solve all the smog problems and power the cities as well!i personally have a natural gas boiler that I want to run on gasification,it s a1.3million btu spec boiler used without pressure for hot h2o use.any ballpark specs on burner and tank sizes would be helpful
this is the perfect join with a pontoon boat or cabin, because you can power up the motor, cook, and heat water to drink evaporated, so potable water 100%, or to take a shower. The best of all !! you can put the tubes down under the water to cool down the smoke completely in a second. Awesome!! Is the life I want I guess :D to live in a lake moving powered by some wood from the trees (off course with a couple of solar panels too)
Thanks for the video> I think I would try a water jacket or heat exchanger with a external hot water rad for another area in the house, as these style heating sources only provide heat to that specific room . It is also a great idea to install a small fan such as a bathroom fan above the unit to exhaust heat to other rooms. Heating cottages and small homes with wood stoves can be problematic due too poor or air flow.
Thanks for your video! I would not say that hot gas is not flammable. It is much more flammable and you even gain power/energy than cold gas. Your work clearly shows that the hot gas and cold air are not easy to mix because of density difference! Bring some hot air heated up from the waste heat of your gasifier and it should work perfectly. and your "earn" twice the energy you otherwise remove from your gas. at least this is my feeling. Thanks again
Thanks. I appreciate you sharing your experience and knowledge with us. Would a hand-cranked bellows work instead of an electric blower? It would be nice not to have to be dependent on having electricity to get it started.
That's a great thing. Perhaps you could combine it with your water trompe to use the 60 psi and also have access to the water for cooling. I love off grid solutions but I couldn't see myself being satisfied with this. I think I'd rather an AGA cooker or similar that also heats the house and water in winter as well as powers oven and hot plates for cooking and has less chance of burning or exploding everything I owned haha Solar panels, wind turbines, or water turbines alongside a battery bank would complete my requirements, which are all coming down dramatically in cost as the technology and supply improves. LED lighting has drastically reduced our energy needs too, there are exciting times to come in off grid solutions that's for sure. I'm also waiting for someone like you to master a perpetual motion generator. That would be something!
Hey For the cooling zone, I ran the pipe thru a water tank. It would act as a cooling chamber / boiler. A larger water tank will feed the cooling tank. A copper coil will recool the hot water and drop back into the large main tank. a little $20 sub pump I used from my computers water cooling. Got them from Amazon.
Cool project there mister! If you want to keep your gas cool one thing you might consider is to drop the diameter of you outlet pipe where it comes out of the gasifier! I used to test natural gas wells and when we flowed the wells thru what we called an "adjustable" choke, you would see iceing all the way down the rest of the flow line to the point that it would sometimes freeze off! A dangerous situation if the pressure kept building behind the plug of ice. Its just a suggestion and I think you would be fine because your system operates at way lower pressure than a natural gas well! lol. If you could figure out a way to make your choke point be adjustable you would have a way of regulating the flow as well as the back pressure on your tank. Both of those I should think are required to achieve clean burning of the gas coming out!
NOTE: Anyone cutting a tank, pull the valve on top and full it with water. Propane soaks into the steel bonding with the carbon. The water will strip it and reduce the chance of having a buildup that might burn.
A very good design. I would improve upon it by creating some sort of passive cooling step between the gasifier and the exhaust, though. One could also consider creating a water heater in between that would function as a cooler (like on the barrel of old machine guns), either for sanitary use or for floor heating etc.
smoke is unburned fuel, like in a fire pit at first you get a lot of smoke until it heats up enough to the flashpoint of the smoke then it ignites, no more smoke.
We can see that you are obviously very skilled with the use of your tools. I plan to share your videos, but I'm just not sure if all DIYs will have the skill level to duplicate your beautiful work.
German civilians ran some VW BEETLES on wood as in WWII. 😊 And I think I saw a wood burning Kubel Wagen or wait, iirc it was shwimwagen (sp?)...wait, iirc it was a makeshift treaded VW tank. Oh' God it's been years ago! lol, But def. a Beetle. The wood burner was the front trunk converted with a big round hatch.
do you have a video or explanation on storing/pressurising the wood gas? would be great if you could collect it some how. Loved your old hour long video.
Well explained, and finally I understand the process involved. Other vids and texts are either "too scientific" or don't cover what's going on nearly as well as this one does.
Wish my mind worked like that. I'm sure not an original idea, but since you need to cool it down, seems like you could heat at least some of your water this way, or circulate the hot water to provide extra heat.
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..put the 1/2 in. downdraft tubes at 30 degrees and will create a vortex for even better burning. ...same with the fan, mount inlet tube at 30 degrees to create a vortex
That's cool. I made a wood stove for my tiny house but I'm worried it's too hot. I didn't install it yet. That's quite the impressive system you built. New sub, your support would also be appreciated. Thanks
Could be done with burning scraps of cardboard? By the way I am sure you have already thought of it, you coud cool down the tube, making a serpentine of tube passing by a tank with water, the water is needed to cool down the tube but as well to make the water hot, so that your friend can have hot water for his shower too. Sorry for my bad English, I am italian
OH :) good, well done then. And how about the scraps of cardboard, maybe in the suburban area people cannot find easily some wood, has cardboard and paper wood gas in it? Maybe in less quantity, but i just wonder if it would work, I want to try to make cardboard small pellets made out from a home meat shredder, 'cause I've built a small wood gassifier pyrolitic stove and I wish to try some different material. I can do just small things, I am not able to weld iron :( luky you are able to.
Ok, I'm an old time country boy thats learned a lot of southern ingenuity the hard way over his life, but you young man, have officially blown my mind, and that's no easy task. Job well done sir. I hope we end up in the same tribe/community when the shtf. ;-)
You friggin genius.....it appears I have to up my game a bit.
Thank you for clear and easy to understand explanations of each step with out extra verbal spillage.
Subscribed!
Wow, thank you. That may have been the most comprehensive vid I’ve seen yet on both the concept and the detailed construction, with detailed footage....too many on here make me sit through guitar music and life story then gloss over details and even miss them with video , after patiently waiting for it.
Ahhh, it's always a good thing when a new gasifier comes into existence :) .
I rely on mine every winter to keep me up and running.
Watt a great thing these are.
lol
I saw watt you did there😊
That is some large brain engineeringly. Amazing that some people retain such information while others complete their cycles without ever having even a smattering of such knowledges. I am amused, thank you for the video.
There are multiple ways that a gasifier can be built and function each one produces different amounts of different elements. The gasifier in the truck gasifier build video is a thermal cracking unit that reaches a high enough temp over 2000 deg. to crack the molecular bonds in the gases that pass through the reaction zone. So it separates things like water molecules into HHO gas, and CO2 into one part CO and a free O, the free O binds with a carbon atom in the burn zone becoming another CO.The O separated from the H2O binds with a carbon atom in the burn zone becoming CO, so the main composition of the gas produced is two parts hydrogen 3 parts carbon monoxide. Now when the gas is burned in the engine the 2 hydrogen's bind with an oxygen molecule and becomes H2O and the CO also binds with an oxygen and becomes CO2 both of which can be re-fed into the reaction chamber and turned back into gas creating a almost closed loop system only requiring air to be supplied.Let's follow a single 2H3CO chain in a closed loop reactor and see what it becomes. First it is burned in the engine becoming 1 - H2O molecule and 3 - CO2 molecules, we re-feed it into the reactor as engine exhaust, now the H2O becomes 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part carbon monoxide, and the 3-CO2 molecules becomes 6 parts CO. So we have 2-hydrogens and 7-carbon monoxides. Run that once more and a pattern becomes apparent..The 2H7CO gas is now burned in the engine and exhausted into the reaction chamber as H2O and 7 parts CO2, once again its forced through the burn zone and the water becomes 2HCO and the 7-CO2's become 14 part's CO. So on its third pass through the reactor our starting chain went from 2H3CO to 2H15CO. At a point the excess carbon monoxide can take over as the reaction chamber fuel source ending the need for more wood to be supplied to continue the process. Now none of this incorporates the fact that the fresh air drawn into the burn chamber and in the engine contains extra CO2 and CO as well as random hydrogen atoms, from the moisture bearing air which will provide a runaway hydrogen effect in the system as well, in fact the the more humid of a climate you live in the faster the hydrogen runaway starts. (Now when this is done right as a closed loop system), so when the system has built up enough carbon to continue supplying both thermal energy and free carbon atoms there becomes an excess of one gas in particular and that is oxygen, this over abundance of oxygen can either be expelled from the system as the waste gas or compressed and used as the oxygen supply to both the reactors burn zone and as the oxygen needed in the combustion zone of the engine. So this means that once the system is at full temp and the internal working gases are up to sufficient levels, it will clean the carbon based molecules from the air use them as fuel and expel oxygen as its exhaust gas. The bad air in a city could be used as energy and in return we would clean the air, by using thermo-molecular reforming and thermo-molecular fracturing we can re-capture and re-use a substantial portion of the waste created from the last 50 years of carbon emissions Right know the closed loop system produces an over abundance of both nitrogen and oxygen atoms, we are attempting to combine the two, to form NO2 which can be fed directly into the reactors burn zone increasing the temperature to around 3000 deg. This allows the gasifier to burn metals as well as organic compounds,( metals can be gasified) in short allowing you to turn pop cans and tin cans, glass, batteries, and just about every other standard household trash item into fuel for use at home or in a vehicle. This can also be achieved with a plasma gasifier, basically a bunch of plasma cutter tip's all aiming into a central position as the reactor burn zone and arcing at the same time.
Would love to see a video building and explaining this, as well as what NwoDispatcher said about the possibility of running a steam engline hybrid? would something like that be possible? I love the idea of the closed loop system and recycling the extra gases, would love to see this made.
Say whaaaat? Wow, impressive and futuristic 'lecture'. Thank you doc.
MrTeslonian - Please pin this thread at the top so that everyone will see it. You're amazing! I want to marry you! Have ring, will travel, lol.
Why is this not happening in every city? Love your work
@@NwoDispatcher - You could run a Stirling out of the exhaust cooling (lower power), or a high-temp-diff Stirling (full power) from the output burning the produced gas.
Good, clear, crisp explanation without padding which wastes our time. Thanks very much.
probably an opportunity to stick a heat exchanger on that thing, take some of that heat off it to heat water or something, cooling off the gas, warming up a house
remember the old homes heated by water and steam?
Water jacket
saw this in recommended videos and I come from a electrical/tinkering background.
I've been thinking of making a system to generate electricity using an old yet to be acquired gen set.
Thank you for posting this video and doing the work you do for us on yt
The planet needs more people like this guy.
Genius Engineer / Fabricator !!! You make it look easy.
What I love about folks that 'just do it', is they don't waste our time with some 'ummms', 'well let me tell yaz', and 'I'm going to make a book out of this'... Just show it, this guy just shows it (maybe too concise, but thank you for your efforts to not waste my time). And this dude's hand/s look as if he actually does work for a living/fun. Gets it done. The end game would make sense to submerge the 'radiator' pipe into water, and use that as cooling, and your hot water source for the tiny/normal/gigantic house.
A nice piece of homestead engineering, clearly explained and well-crafted. I'm already sharing this with other diy'ers that I know. Well done sir!
Great video, it's the easiest explanation of a gasifier that I've seen on youtube!
Watched more than 20 videos in last 3 days and I believe this's the best one. Way better and informative!
I had no idea what I was watching, but it was real informative. Looks like great off-grid stuff. Thanks.
Fabulous. I'll never need one, but just the same, I found this video to be on point and not a wasted moment.
So if I understand correctly, the gas is to be used as it's being generated. The system is not set up to store the gas under pressure for later use. That sounds like it would require passing it through a pretty sophisticated refrigeration system, and safety would be a primary consideration. Don't want any oxygen mixed with it for storage. I've seen pictures of automobiles rigged for wood gas fuel in Japan during WWII, in some Time-Life books published 4 decades back. Sounds great, if you have a metal shop. At age 50 I took a High School vo-tech welding welding & metal-fab course when I was living on a small ranchlet/farm w my wife and her sister & kids some years ago. Restored and used her Grandpa's 1950's woodworking tools, and a 25-year-old Shopsmith. But what you've done goes way beyond my metal crafting skillset. My hat's off to you, sir!
Awesome! I have never heard about a wood gasifier! Way cool! Thank you I have learned something new. You are also a good and knowledgable instructure!
Nice - I think I finally understand how these work. I admire your metalworking skills and your work ethic.
I think you're a genius, I live in the city Chicago IL,, Middle age now, my younger days me & buddy's would go to the woods,, I'm gunna try & build me a cabin someday.
tons of Kool stuff on RUclips,
Thanks for doing this video.
Man i have never seen anything like this ever and you made it with no secrets everything exposed what can i say you are a bloody genius thank you so much for this Paul Djerassi Ireland.
Thank you, this is the best gasifier video I've seen very well explained.
Semper Fi
WOW! Everyone needs a friend like you.
I have been watching your videos for quite awhile now, and almost every time I watch one, one thing comes to my mind...YOU ROCK!!!
I believe that God has given you a special gift. Just like the Franklins, the Da Vincis, and the Teslas of this world, you are a VISIONARY.
Thank you, for the videos. Oh, by the way, In case the country's power grid goes down for a long time(or forever), where do you live? Ha ha.
Have been watching for awhile now...Quality, every time. Thank you for your time and mind.
i have looked at a lot of your videos ..only got one thing to say you are a genious ..thanks
OK watched 17 min of your video and really well explained and easy to get it. Well done and thanks. Here is the thing though. Why not just use the wood to cook with?
Work With Nature because you can always go get more wood. You can always go get more energy, and a source to fuel a generator.
You can still use the wood to cook with. Once the gas is released the wood turns into charcoal which can be used for barbecues.
imagine the heat gas gives off compared to wood, the ratio is probably much better converting it to a gas than just burning wood which is inefficient.
amazing, love the creativity. keep the man show going!
You are a very intelligent man thank you for your video because I'm a woman doing things as a man so thank you are showing me how to do this
I love this design, very simple yet very effective. I have a 7.5 KW Generac generator that runs on LP, I plan to convert it to wood gas at some point. Thank you very much for the video!
Thanks for being concise and to the point!
Thank you, that was the best video i have seen on this subject. Easy to follow, no extra extra. Great job
Thats truly amazing! You have a brain the size of TX !!! Lol! I never knew this was possible! Thanks for the share!
Itt is obvious to me that there is a lot of potential in smoke that a gasifier utilizes & that I was unaware of! I have seen other contraptions used as a gasifier but, they were more intricate. Yours, I like & seems much simpler!
This is gotta be over of the best vids on RUclips. Awesome work. Wish I could build one.i born wood 4 to 5 months a year.
too cool :) a nice simple design; albert would appreciate. you're a very thoughtful engineer. would love to see some cool and practical applications in use.
My uncle has a wood furnace based on this principle for over a 15years. Only smoke from his chimney comes out before he reaches the right operating temperature, then it's just absolutely no smoke coming out. And to heat up 2 pieces of 1500L water tanks takes few pales of wood. And they he has hot water for whole week, tanks are very good insulated.
Great explanation!
Have you tried angling the lower air inlet tubes to one side as well as down? This would create a vortex that would most likely spin the gases all the way up the burn chamber maximizing their mixing and increasing burn efficiency.
Wouldn't you need tighter tubing ri do that? I can visualize what you're talking about, but to get that vortex, wouldn't you need a tighter space?
I would think creating a vortex for burn efficiency would negate the purpose of making smoke. Too good of burn would burn the gas before it would leave. Need cool smoke, not hot smoke. This is supposed to be a gassifier, not a jet stove. Remember, he had plugs made for air tubes so could shut down air flow for more smoke.
Good work! We are kindred spirits that's for sure.
You Sir are beyond a doubt in a league of your own! Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to communicate with you, I have collected several items , mostly tanks. I was wondering if this particular system will power a vehicle?I have a old E350 460 CID and I was thinking this would be a good candidate for a wood gas project 🤷♀️
Thanks for sharing, like others have said, a very easily understood video. It was all well thought out and clearly explained. I personally would like a bit wider base for more stability.
Mr.---You are a very skilled and talented person! A problem---the average person, even educated, can not understand the special tech. jargon expressed! thank you!
You are a wonderful person Mr Teslonian.
brother you need a network tv show .Have a good day and God Bless
Well Done Mr Tesalonian You could not put it any Simpler. From Aussie Paul
for you guys wanting to compress this be very careful if you compress a combustibale gas and oxygen even accidentally gets in the mix you just created a bomb that will flash explode faster than you can imagine i learned this when i was 16 and wanted a portable cutting torch so i took an empty helium can from a science expirement and started my cutting tourch mixed it to neutral flame snuffed it out in the dirt and proceeded to pressurize my helium can... when done i lit a candle and called my sister to watch i squirted the bottle at the candle and there was no flash just an explsion that blew the can seem in half and blew both ends off the bottom stuck in my chest about half an inch so i had a trip to the hospital... lesson learned no flamable gas compressed WITH oxygen....EVER!!! even a sandwich bag with a black cat firecracker will demolish an open ended metal coffee can....
Yeah never compress gas unless you know every aspect of it I run a 5.3 modified engine on wood gas runs like a champ runs power heat and air conditioning all thermal mass 😁
Yeah, good reason to supply the Oxy-Gas welding rig from two bottles. A second problem that could have caused an explosion is that Acetylene is unstable as a gas under pressure, in the welding set it is dissolved in acetylene and safe that way but what you cooked up was pretty much the opposite of safe. Glad you lived to tell the tale.
More of a problem specifically with acetylene. Very difficult to compress safely.
In my vocational welding class / jr. yr. some idiot filled a plastic garbage bag with acetylene and oxygen tied it off and threw it under the guy using the cutting torch station ; he was blinded for a while. ps. they also welded pipe . . mini polish canons enough to just fit a marble, they were so powerful when they hit the 6ft industrial fans it would stop them cold for a bit. I should have received combat pay for attending that school!
@@greggbarber They'd fill the air hose with water or nails in my shop class.
you are the man I will say!solve all the smog problems and power the cities as well!i personally have a natural gas boiler that I want to run on gasification,it s a1.3million btu spec boiler used without pressure for hot h2o use.any ballpark specs on burner and tank sizes would be helpful
this is the perfect join with a pontoon boat or cabin, because you can power up the motor, cook, and heat water to drink evaporated, so potable water 100%, or to take a shower. The best of all !! you can put the tubes down under the water to cool down the smoke completely in a second. Awesome!! Is the life I want I guess :D
to live in a lake moving powered by some wood from the trees (off course with a couple of solar panels too)
Man, I have to learn how to weld some day! I've worked on a few gasifiers but it's hard to do without the equipment and expertise. Great Video!
Thanks for the video> I think I would try a water jacket or heat exchanger with a external hot water rad for another area in the house, as these style heating sources only provide heat to that specific room . It is also a great idea to install a small fan such as a bathroom fan above the unit to exhaust heat to other rooms. Heating cottages and small homes with wood stoves can be problematic due too poor or air flow.
Thanks for your video!
I would not say that hot gas is not flammable. It is much more flammable and you even gain power/energy than cold gas. Your work clearly shows that the hot gas and cold air are not easy to mix because of density difference!
Bring some hot air heated up from the waste heat of your gasifier and it should work perfectly. and your "earn" twice the energy you otherwise remove from your gas.
at least this is my feeling.
Thanks again
Thanks. I appreciate you sharing your experience and knowledge with us.
Would a hand-cranked bellows work instead of an electric blower? It would be nice not to have to be dependent on having electricity to get it started.
Yes a bellow would work and would be cool to watch work as well!
berserk7111 there are hand crank blowers similar to the one he mounted for forges too!
berserk7111 Bike powered blower would be good!
berserk7111 im sure u could use a hand cranked blower if it blew enough air.
Andre D hand crank blowers produce a large amount of air, and have a higher water column(the amount of pressure) than squirrel cage fans.
That's a great thing. Perhaps you could combine it with your water trompe to use the 60 psi and also have access to the water for cooling. I love off grid solutions but I couldn't see myself being satisfied with this. I think I'd rather an AGA cooker or similar that also heats the house and water in winter as well as powers oven and hot plates for cooking and has less chance of burning or exploding everything I owned haha
Solar panels, wind turbines, or water turbines alongside a battery bank would complete my requirements, which are all coming down dramatically in cost as the technology and supply improves. LED lighting has drastically reduced our energy needs too, there are exciting times to come in off grid solutions that's for sure.
I'm also waiting for someone like you to master a perpetual motion generator. That would be something!
another great Mr Teslonian video!
keep up the good work sir! very inspiring videos!
Hey For the cooling zone, I ran the pipe thru a water tank. It would act as a cooling chamber / boiler. A larger water tank will feed the cooling tank. A copper coil will recool the hot water and drop back into the large main tank. a little $20 sub pump I used from my computers water cooling. Got them from Amazon.
What Can I Say, You are a Talented Guy :)
Cool project there mister! If you want to keep your gas cool one thing you might consider is to drop the diameter of you outlet pipe where it comes out of the gasifier! I used to test natural gas wells and when we flowed the wells thru what we called an "adjustable" choke, you would see iceing all the way down the rest of the flow line to the point that it would sometimes freeze off! A dangerous situation if the pressure kept building behind the plug of ice. Its just a suggestion and I think you would be fine because your system operates at way lower pressure than a natural gas well! lol. If you could figure out a way to make your choke point be adjustable you would have a way of regulating the flow as well as the back pressure on your tank. Both of those I should think are required to achieve clean burning of the gas coming out!
Very nice craftsmanship!
best video of instruction ever on youtube
You should enter my kitchens and learn.
Nice work. I love your troubleshooting and problem solving.
Using is wood gasifiers looks cool the build is so much work
best voice for documentaries
Very nice build!
You should draw some diagrams to visually explain the process and also potential revisions people could try.
Absolutely Fantastic Stuff
NOTE: Anyone cutting a tank, pull the valve on top and full it with water. Propane soaks into the steel bonding with the carbon. The water will strip it and reduce the chance of having a buildup that might burn.
I never knew that before, thanks I learned something sitting on the toilet today!
Great video MrTeslonian. Nice work!
A very good design. I would improve upon it by creating some sort of passive cooling step between the gasifier and the exhaust, though.
One could also consider creating a water heater in between that would function as a cooler (like on the barrel of old machine guns), either for sanitary use or for floor heating etc.
Nice vídeo friend,congratulations and thanks for share
Great video
You have some special survival skills
Bless you for sharing
Dave
Good luck...and hello from Latvia.
Thanks for the lesson, I didn't know wood could be gasified.
smoke is unburned fuel, like in a fire pit at first you get a lot of smoke until it heats up enough to the flashpoint of the smoke then it ignites, no more smoke.
Cool stuff! What's old is new again!!!
DUDE!!!!!
THAT WAS AMAZING!!!!
Beautiful work brother. 👍🏾
Great job man! Excellent Engineering all the way around!
Good solid construction! Easy to maintain;)
You Really got My inventive Wheels -a-turning !!! I need a welder ! I have a plasma cutter, tanks , barrels Tubes...OMG ! Just Subbed and Belled !
We can see that you are obviously very skilled with the use of your tools. I plan to share your videos, but I'm just not sure if all DIYs will have the skill level to duplicate your beautiful work.
The engineering on this is fantastic. Bravo!
Amazing. If it was for youtube I wouldn't ever have known
Really enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work.
I never knew that could be done Very nice!
Nice work. Well explained
German civilians ran some VW BEETLES on wood as in WWII. 😊 And I think I saw a wood burning Kubel Wagen or wait, iirc it was shwimwagen (sp?)...wait, iirc it was a makeshift treaded VW tank. Oh' God it's been years ago! lol, But def. a Beetle. The wood burner was the front trunk converted with a big round hatch.
I think the German Armor School was down to training with a few wood burning tanks at the bitter end of WW2.
Brilliant as always. Thanks for the upload
very good speaker well thought out what I don't understand is what's the difference between this and a wick stove.
do you have a video or explanation on storing/pressurising the wood gas? would be great if you could collect it some how. Loved your old hour long video.
Keep the great work...
Well explained, and finally I understand the process involved. Other vids and texts are either "too scientific" or don't cover what's going on nearly as well as this one does.
Wish my mind worked like that. I'm sure not an original idea, but since you need to cool it down, seems like you could heat at least some of your water this way, or circulate the hot water to provide extra heat.
..put the 1/2 in. downdraft tubes at 30 degrees and will create a vortex for even better burning.
...same with the fan, mount inlet tube at 30 degrees to create a vortex
Cool. You are a pretty good fitter.
you are AWESOME and I appreciate all you do and share!!!
Fantastic explanation.
Really enjoy your videos
That's cool. I made a wood stove for my tiny house but I'm worried it's too hot. I didn't install it yet. That's quite the impressive system you built. New sub, your support would also be appreciated. Thanks
I wonder if running the exhaust pipe through the earth or a large water tank would help. That is cool. I've never seen something like that.
This is a project I have been wanting to do for the past few years.
Could be done with burning scraps of cardboard? By the way I am sure you have already thought of it, you coud cool down the tube, making a serpentine of tube passing by a tank with water, the water is needed to cool down the tube but as well to make the water hot, so that your friend can have hot water for his shower too. Sorry for my bad English, I am italian
OH :) good, well done then. And how about the scraps of cardboard, maybe in the suburban area people cannot find easily some wood, has cardboard and paper wood gas in it? Maybe in less quantity, but i just wonder if it would work, I want to try to make cardboard small pellets made out from a home meat shredder, 'cause I've built a small wood gassifier pyrolitic stove and I wish to try some different material. I can do just small things, I am not able to weld iron :( luky you are able to.
A++ man, outstanding. Thanks!