Homemade Syngas Generator

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

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  • @Nighthawkinlight
    @Nighthawkinlight 3 года назад +73

    This is really excellent. Very nice job!

    • @ftr98
      @ftr98 3 года назад +3

      Can you use the charcoal from the wood gas generator as feed for this reaction?

    • @kaushikkalita7310
      @kaushikkalita7310 3 года назад

      @@ftr98 yes

    • @Coincidence_Theorist
      @Coincidence_Theorist 2 года назад +1

      I love how you have done this for the community

    • @lesthompson5907
      @lesthompson5907 4 месяца назад +1

      @@ftr98 in 1963 was a freezing year & the wood was noticeably. Very wet. when it went into my wood gas generator & as a result produced far more damp gas than I was used to having in my flair & a lot of water prevented the generator from running Properly. the reason was I had a job keeping the Gen set charging. I discovered if I reduce the wood & field the reactor with charcoal the reaction returns to normal & I could charge my batteries. I pondered what I had just learnt & later. Dedust that it would be better to build a separate charcoal colom & pull the damp gas into it & then check the flair. this I did & sent the damp gas into the charcoal colom & as the oxygen in the. The damp gas was burnt off good gas went to the flair & filters. & then to the gen set. Later in my life. I "Stopped" using steam & just dripped water onto a hot plate to flash to steam that was sucked into the Bern Chamber. The answer to your question is yes. In fact, The reason why most wood gas generators do not work well is their wood reduction zoon is far too small. this zoon is often referred to as the pyrolysis zone. this is where the wood converts to charcoal to feed the reduction zoon
      PS, it is important to, Realize that the water in the wood fibbers contributes to the volume of gas & its quality. As its production is pulled down into the charcoal bed it is this that will significantly produce good gas. So yes , : -[that's the pepos of the pyrolysis zone after all ]

  • @stacebirdvids
    @stacebirdvids 3 года назад +9

    I love your custom bricks! And I saw a little Gumpster support crew: “that was fantastic!” I wholeheartedly agree!! So impressive, Scoot, you’re a rockstar.

  • @bonsolaire9152
    @bonsolaire9152 2 года назад +4

    I suggest running your steam through a larger bed of coals to increase the temperature of the steam to a super critical temp to improve the thermodynamics of your reaction. the steam will actually be cooling the reaction in the current setup and by increasing your steam line length and having it run through an additional coal bed it will have a much higher temperature saturation and result in a better reaction.

  • @salty_sw3de93
    @salty_sw3de93 4 месяца назад

    Awesome video! Very cool. Be interested to know the moisture content of the charcoal before and after. Would likely account for the higher than expected final weight.

  • @Shivansh_happy_soul
    @Shivansh_happy_soul Год назад +1

    This is such a cool video to demonstrate sun gas. Cleared my concept. Thanks bro😊

  • @yurikhakhnazarian7664
    @yurikhakhnazarian7664 3 года назад +2

    Thank you very much for very interesting test and the result.

  • @doctorwho0w314
    @doctorwho0w314 2 года назад +1

    this channel gonna blow up im calling it now

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  2 года назад +1

      Not at this rate XD. Going to do more projects this summer, however.

    • @anchopanchorancho
      @anchopanchorancho 7 месяцев назад

      Seems like Scott got it right. Oh well, what can you do?

  • @CNCmachiningisfun
    @CNCmachiningisfun 3 года назад +13

    Nice!
    I have been relying on woodgas powered generators for the past few years, and with good results.
    Your system looks mighty fine, and it may be more energetic than woodgas, as Nitrogen is excluded from the outgoing gas stream.
    I really must try this.
    Keep up the good work :) .

    • @flash001USA
      @flash001USA 3 года назад +2

      Ahhh there you are! I thought you may have left a comment or three here.

    • @CNCmachiningisfun
      @CNCmachiningisfun 3 года назад +2

      @@flash001USA
      Howdee Flash,
      Yup, I tend to hang around these kinds of videos, like a mouse hangs around a computer ;) .
      Gotta collect all those watts, before they can get away.

    • @ftr98
      @ftr98 3 года назад +1

      I think you can use the "waste" charcoal from the wood gas generation as feed for this reaction. That way you (theoretically) convert the whole wood input into gas.

    • @CNCmachiningisfun
      @CNCmachiningisfun 3 года назад +3

      @@ftr98
      Yup, that will work nicely.
      I made a charcoal gasifier that runs on the waste from my wood gasifier, and it works like a charm :) .

    • @matty31272
      @matty31272 3 года назад

      How can it be stored? Can it be compressed and stored?

  • @2ue
    @2ue 3 года назад +1

    This is really impressive, I love the creativity

  • @craigstedman4718
    @craigstedman4718 2 года назад +1

    good concept young man...ace lil video

  • @kaushikkalita7310
    @kaushikkalita7310 3 года назад +6

    can you make a video on converting the syngas into methanol, please, it will be a great video

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад +7

      Believe me-I'm pondering it! That is why I thought to do this project in the first place. I'm a bit concerned about the pressures required, which are on the order of >50atm or >735 psi or 5MPa. As you can tell, I am a BIT short on equipment. For example, to compress that gas in a 1/4" (6.3mm) ID tube, it is 36 pounds (16kg*g) of force! Crazy! Then, I need catalysts, which I have never used before. Fortunately, the reaction temperature is quite low and methanol will condense at room temperature (eliminating the need for a cryo system), so that gives me some hope. I'm going to university soon, and once there I can get proper materials and hopefully make a better syngas generator and methanol reactor!

    • @kaushikkalita7310
      @kaushikkalita7310 3 года назад +2

      @@scottviola8021 thats awesome bro, i was also researching in this field and i have found some methods in which i dont need to have such a high pressure, but i need to test that, i am just a noob, but i am thinking about LMPEOH process for methanol production and it is the process which uses an inert mineral oil/powdered catalyst slurry as a reaction medium and heat sink. As the feed gas bubbles through the catalyst slurry forming MeOH, the mineral oil transfers the reaction heat to an internal tubular boiler where the heat is removed by generating steam. and this system doesn't require huge pressure and also there is no requirement for stoichiometric ratio of H/CO/CO2 so this makes an perfect example for methanol production but off course we need to make some updates and i am thinking about an hydrogen production from electrolysis which have the potential to increase the pressure without any major equipment but we need to make a proper equipment which supports our idea, there is no end for new ideas and imagination and it can done

  • @pe4958
    @pe4958 3 года назад +4

    Maybe try running the steam down thru a vertical reaction column so gravity can assist with packing efficiency as the charcoal is consumed

  • @silizimon1293
    @silizimon1293 3 года назад +15

    If I am not mistaken you should have in theory produced around 9,41 liters of Syngas and the released energy of the combustion would be 101 kJ (assuming the formed water is gaseous)
    Δm = 19.0 g - 16.7 g = 2.30 g n(C) = (2.30 g) / (12.0 g/mol) = 0.192 mol n(Syngas) = n(CO) + n(H2) = 2 n(C) = 0.384 mol molar volume at 1 atm and 25°C : 24.5 l/mol
    V(Syngas) = n(Syngas) * Vm = 0.384 mol * 24.5 l/mol = 9.41 l
    ΔRHm = ΔRHm(Products) - ΔRHm(Educts) = (-393.5 kJ/mol - 241.8 kJ/mol) - (-110.5 kJ/mol + 0 kJ/mol + 0 kJ/mol) = -524.8 kJ/mol
    ΔH = ΔRHm * (n(Syngas) / 2) = -524.8 kJ/mol * 0.192 mol = 101 kJ
    Sources:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_volume
    de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tabellensammlung_Chemie/_Thermodynamische_Daten

  • @ejt3708
    @ejt3708 Год назад +1

    THAT WAS AWESOME!

  • @upyurz5272
    @upyurz5272 3 года назад +2

    With a wood gas generator to make the charcoal (NHIL did that experiment as well), you could additionally capture another feast of combustibles. Good video. Well done!

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад +1

      Does the wood-gas generator stop making gas at some point well before the combustibles (now charcoal) are consumed? I always got the impression that the charcoal line moved with the gas production, leaving almost nothing left behind. If I were to make one and run it until the flame went out, would I have loads of charcoal left? I've gotta tell ya, I have picked every piece of my charcoal from our pizza oven with tongs, and I would love a more industrial alternative :)

    • @lesthompson5907
      @lesthompson5907 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@scottviola8021 the answer to your question is yes . only at plasma levels of heat doe the oxygen barn of & gas will not Bern with out oxygen Much like lightening in a storm produces sufficient hear to tern 2part'sof hydrogen in to water = H2/0 stem past threw a retort of charcoal will produce sufficient heat to predust hydrogen & carbon if it is separate in side say a 1/2" copper or steel pipe the oxygen will barn (OFF) but will remain carbon free . in fact the freely balloonists acquired there hydrogen in the same way. barning charcoal in a 4" pipe bread in a charcoal pit of fier as it gat red hot the steam throw the pipe burning of the oxygen to fill the balloon. it a fainting subject & how i predust power of grid for year's in a wood benign stove & later in a rocket stove .

  • @oliviasheng5710
    @oliviasheng5710 3 года назад +4

    this is sick man

  • @TheBaumLord
    @TheBaumLord 3 года назад +3

    Nice video. Hope to see more from you in the future.
    I got a couple of suggestions for you.
    Your reactor is working, just not as well as you think. The first baloon fills up quickly, because the first gas to be released from the coal is probably the same gas you noticed heating the reactor. Probably woodgas from the coal.
    As you noted your coal reactor-packing is not great. Maybe grind up the coal a bit more, to smaller chunks or outright powderize it and then pack the reactor more tightly. This will also help conduct the heat better to the coals, because the reaction is strongly endothermic it sucks up alot of heat.
    Also heating the steam to 900°C takes alot of the energy. More coal will also provide more thermal mass and contact area for that.
    The mesh is good, if you grind the coals more you maybe want to use some sort of quartz wool or other heat resistant fiber material to keep the coal in place.
    If you are now rightfully worried about your tightly packed reactor possibly blowing up, you should add a pressure relief valve.
    You should probably add a pressure relief valve to your water boiler regardless of my other suggestions, steam explosions are no joke.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад +1

      Thanks! I should figure out a way to do this stuff... I just haven’t because 1) I spent practically no money on this, and 2) it is hard to physically put It together

    • @yunussubekti
      @yunussubekti 3 года назад

      👍👍👍

  • @harrison3753
    @harrison3753 2 года назад

    would be very interested to see the second planned reactor. maybe with a large final goal of synfuel

    • @gsommerfeldt
      @gsommerfeldt 2 года назад

      Yes! I was thinking the same thing, watching this. This setup could probably be "condensed" to an even more compact size. Finding a manageable way to make methanol and then an MTG process is the challenge, I suppose...

  • @sephjfox
    @sephjfox 3 года назад

    Great results! I wonder if the charcoal would have behaved differently if it was crushed up a bit more?

  • @RRrrRRrrlandfin
    @RRrrRRrrlandfin 9 месяцев назад

    Have someone mention already, however I'm sure you figure out it already, the gas burning above coals are mostly CO. Btw, cool video. Thanks :)

  • @chrismartin4856
    @chrismartin4856 2 года назад +2

    If a flame were to burn the balloon, while pinched,..would you get the "Zeppelin" effect ? Going up in flames !!

  • @Liphted
    @Liphted 3 года назад

    This is pretty cool!

  • @Coincidence_Theorist
    @Coincidence_Theorist 2 года назад

    Scott this was rad. Nice family. How you end up in Panama

  • @LesThompson-i3t
    @LesThompson-i3t Месяц назад +1

    yes Did it as a school son. the school, couldn't afford iron Nails so we used charcoal instead & got two gases instead of One The iron filing gives you only hydrogen gas

  • @shawjt82
    @shawjt82 3 года назад +12

    You could divert a portion of your gas back to heat your charcoal and water after the system gets going, and save yourself the wood and charcoal

  • @BushLieWorldDie
    @BushLieWorldDie 2 месяца назад

    Did that heatgun managet to set the coal on fire?

  • @lesthompson5907
    @lesthompson5907 9 месяцев назад +1

    yes i did this using a rocket stove . i also used the precibal whit the water the steam in my gasifier smock it worked well & burnt of the damp in the smock the pip at the bottom heated the turned to steam into hydrogen as it burnt of the oxygen in the damp smock smock past trough the charcoal. it brans of the oxygen . The same affect is achieved if a 1/2" pipe is inserted in the larger pipe & field with charcoal, & The same results is achieved if an 1/2" pipe siting in the charcoal the heat product burns of oxygen as it passes down the 1/2 "pipe the burnt of Oxygen as it passes throw the pipe producing hydrogen gas out the pipe. exact it is in reeves of the result that tacks place's when you Bern hydrogen & oxygen to cut steel. so The two methods work well but i have to say the benefits when past trough the charcoal it as hydro carbons CO" that barn well in an engine for generating power. les fiddly in half as much time
    in closing the siystom is best used. By the ues of an aculeate a cylinder set inside with a flange 10 " from the bottom set inside a larger tank with a flange to stop it rising above a set distance . the Wight of the top tank adds presser as it rise with in the first tank & as it sits in the water the gas within. as it own spark arrester. with a suitable flashback arrester on the generator a smaller bubbler to pass to the final stage of combustion within the generator. if a presser gag is applied to the accumulator the presser with in will load so you to estimate the run time of the system & regulate flow + it will added you to Estimate the number of burns to achieve a desired presser & run time. for charging battery banks .

  • @kaloryfer99999
    @kaloryfer99999 2 года назад

    How does the steam react with the coal if the "reactor" is a closed pipe? Where does the steam come in contact with the coal?

    • @emirsekercilerzade9327
      @emirsekercilerzade9327 2 года назад +1

      coals outside the pipe are there for external heating, there is also some coal in the pipe which he weighed.

  • @idea-shack
    @idea-shack 3 года назад

    Commercial gasifiers mix a small amount of oxygen with the steam to sustain the reaction (so that external heating isn't required). Could possibly also avoid the external heating for the steam generator with some careful placement of a coil delivering the water.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      I read that too! However, I designed the reactor to avoid any contaminant gases running through it. Since I don't have oxygen at my disposal/a way to feed it in, I'd need to use atmospheric air, which lets in tons of nitrogen. Nitrogen and CO2 dilute the flammable products. With regards to creating the steam: that would probably work; a good use for all the waste heat being blown away.

    • @shafayetsayed138
      @shafayetsayed138 Год назад

      @@scottviola8021 Hi. Please tell me whether the gas stored inside the balloon which you burnt is coal gas or wood gas? And if it is coal, then can I use charcoals instead of mineral coals?

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  Год назад

      @@shafayetsayed138 I would say that it is coal gas. You definitely could use charcoal--this is what I did here! No mineral coal was used in the making of this video :)

    • @shafayetsayed138
      @shafayetsayed138 Год назад

      @@scottviola8021 Thank you.

  • @heavymetalmadman3533
    @heavymetalmadman3533 3 года назад

    awesome vid.

  • @dansw0rkshop
    @dansw0rkshop 3 года назад

    And if you make carefully granulated charcoal, you will have activated carbon after a while. This is what Cody's Lab did

  • @blocksers6948
    @blocksers6948 3 года назад

    Are you certain that the water reservour was still full of water? Maybe the watervapor died down, causing a reduced yield.
    Also, im pretty sure that the flames, that you suspected might be woodgas coming from the coals, is just fine dusty coal particles flung up by the air suply and quickly burning of, causing the flames.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      I know that the water never ran out because it was surprisingly full after cooling off. The problem was probably the charcoals. That's a neat idea for the flame-any idea on how to verify it? Maybe inserting a piece of metal or a cup to collect it before it burns?

    • @blocksers6948
      @blocksers6948 3 года назад

      @@scottviola8021 Im Not Sure how you could scientifically back my clame but one Thing that points towards my assumption is, that if the air running through the coal is cut of, the flames disapper, suggesting that the air current defently plays some role in the Formation of the flames. Normaly coal doesnt produce any flames because it has no volatile compounds left. Coal making is literally just that. Heat up some wood, to strip it of all compounds that can vaporize, leaving only carbon behind. Consequently the source of the Flame has to have a different origin than the composition of the coal

  • @Ivan0001
    @Ivan0001 3 года назад

    Awesome!

  • @ashokreddyvallapureddy1905
    @ashokreddyvallapureddy1905 3 года назад

    Very good,

  • @manofmesopotamia7602
    @manofmesopotamia7602 2 года назад

    Could we use propane gas instead of coal? What kind of modification we need to make it work? 🤔

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  2 года назад +1

      No clue. Propane gas is already a higher-order molecule and might as well be used as-is for fuel or further synthesis.

  • @mr.talalai3416
    @mr.talalai3416 11 месяцев назад

    genious

  • @sukaisnaini1843
    @sukaisnaini1843 2 года назад

    wow amazing.

  • @AflacMan13
    @AflacMan13 3 года назад

    Imagine being able to capture this gas, and then compress it into a holding container, like a welding gas tank, and then running this and some oxygen through a torch and using it to braze or possibly even cut and weld with. :-)

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад +1

      That would be neat. I haven't pursued compression too much due to the danger of accidentally mixing in oxygen from the air and creating a pipe bomb. Plus, I don't want to be the one to figure out that it explodes under high pressure like acetylene! It would be very fun to use it for such things though!

    • @AflacMan13
      @AflacMan13 3 года назад

      @@scottviola8021 Perhaps dissolving it in a liquid then... if it is soluble in some liquid or another, like Acetylene in Acetone. :-)

    • @dansw0rkshop
      @dansw0rkshop 3 года назад

      Nope. Never put hydrogen into a steel tank. It will eat through it and explode.

  • @marx875
    @marx875 3 года назад

    Can it be produce by electrolysis to use in bike as fuel?

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      H2 gas can be produced by electrolysis, but I am unsure if CO can be. I suppose that this could could be used for a bike, though! NightHawkInLight tried something similar with a tiny wood-gas generator

  • @reikra6144
    @reikra6144 3 года назад +1

    Like No 100 comes from Germany 😀👍

  • @shelbysurya5736
    @shelbysurya5736 5 месяцев назад

    Why aren't you making new videos?

    • @synth1002
      @synth1002 4 месяца назад +1

      he died from CO poisoning shortly after, may he RIP

  • @pwnzerelli
    @pwnzerelli 3 года назад +2

    interaction

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад +1

      ?

    • @pwnzerelli
      @pwnzerelli 3 года назад +2

      @@scottviola8021 oh i had nothing to say but wanted to support channel algorithm with interaction

  • @support2587
    @support2587 3 года назад

    👍🏻

  • @NunyaBizznezz6969
    @NunyaBizznezz6969 3 года назад

    Your pipe isn't galvanized is it?

  • @sandorszabo9211
    @sandorszabo9211 2 года назад

    Syngas contains carbon monoxide, so glasses and glowes are not enough here. One larger breathe of carbon monoxide can make you faint.

  • @troybranson1856
    @troybranson1856 2 года назад

    Doesnt the steam put oyt the fire. I dont understand it.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  2 года назад

      Once water has evaporated, the vapor is just like any other gas. It will not undergo another phase change (which is what makes up a lot of liquid water's cooling power). When it enters the reaction chamber, it simply gets heated by the pipe and charcoals from about 100C to several hundred C.

    • @troybranson1856
      @troybranson1856 2 года назад

      So does the steam actually spray the hot coals, or does it go through the coals inside a pipe.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  2 года назад

      @@troybranson1856 The water is vaporized in the little can over the fire. That gas is pushed through the little copper pipe into the coals. It is no longer liquid when it gets in there!

  • @csrivishnureddy
    @csrivishnureddy 3 года назад +1

    🤩🤩🤩🤩 Cool n Hot bro 🤜🤜

  • @Jkauppa
    @Jkauppa 3 года назад +1

    steamforming, pyrolysis-carbonization nitpicking

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa 3 года назад

      water bubbler should make more hydrogen from the co

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa 3 года назад

      you could make a first condensation filter before the bubbler, with a flash-back valve, to make gasoline from c + h2o, try metal + co2 + h2o, kinda steam-forming too

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa 3 года назад

      multiple passes of the steam

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa 3 года назад

      electric insulated precise resistance heating, using solar and wind (read nuclear) energy

    • @Jkauppa
      @Jkauppa 3 года назад

      you forgot the water-shift reaction, to pass the class

  • @googletropcurieux8670
    @googletropcurieux8670 9 месяцев назад

    Why did you stop??

    • @synth1002
      @synth1002 4 месяца назад +1

      CO stopped him forever

    • @hehe-ls8hq
      @hehe-ls8hq 2 месяца назад

      @@synth1002 wait really??

  • @balintelias
    @balintelias 3 года назад

    My result: 9.2 liters

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      To be completely honest, I am too lazy to do my own chemistry problems :D I have no idea what the answer is... I should probably do that for my own integrity

  • @fxphenix5162
    @fxphenix5162 3 года назад

    Is there any powder coating you could add to the inside of the Ballon that would BIND with the CO ?? And thus render it easily disposedof, rather than be a toxic gas which people could possibly breath...?
    Seems like a simple thing...🤔 but who knows 🤷‍♂️ maybe you could be the guy who invents it...?

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      The CO is there to be burned! It is only toxic if you breathe it, and the tiny quantities I am producing are only mildly harmful to the atmosphere. CO problems tend to arise in places with much, much more pollution.

    • @scottviola8021
      @scottviola8021  3 года назад

      There is a reaction, called the water-gas shift reaction, that can consume CO and H2O to produce CO2 and H2, but I have not worked towards doing that at this point

  • @ushillbillies
    @ushillbillies 2 года назад

    Pretty damned amazing

  • @JustinKoenigSilica
    @JustinKoenigSilica 3 года назад

    Hey man Keep up the Hobby chem. awesome video.
    this is MobileForce#2172 from the Chem server ;)

  • @marlonvite4152
    @marlonvite4152 Год назад

    Super.

  • @Liphted
    @Liphted 3 года назад

    This is pretty cool!