I'm impressed. You can incorporate the design into a wood stove and use it cook food and generate power; then put it a tiny house and go off grid!! 😁❤👍👍👍👍
the heat breaks the wood down, which combining with ambient moisture, forms hydrocarbon gas, along with smoke and soot that is left behind. he filters off the smoke to prevent clogging up the airline.
Mostly it is carbon monoxide gas, colorless, odorless and highly TOXIC. Be careful. They used this "wood gas " in Europe during and after WW 2 because petro was in short supply.
Very nice, enjoyed seeing a gasifier project. A few things I would say on how you can modify/improve. •Try adding peltier modules to the casing oven to drive a fan to allow for more heat. •upgrade the canister to a larger container for more gasification. •keep the water colder to allow for more dense gas and also in joint with the peltier module. •make sure the wood is more dry and broken in down But other than that great project.
Just my 2 cents worth but, a small 4 stroke uses less wood gas and the cooling air from the 4 stroke could provide cooling air to your wood gas condenser. All in all, great results! Keep going, it is a great effort on your part. I realize you used what was at hand, something from nothing. I hope many people can contribute $ to your effort.
That's really, very good😀👍👍👍 First jar of water acts both as a condenser to cool the gas and as flame arrester; because the flame is lit from the second jar -- Well done indeed 😀👍👍👍👍
A man's best friend, runaway sanders, a machete, fire, an engine, some other random bits from around the house and the knowledge to make it all work together... must've been a fun day! Awesome video, keep it up!
That's actually a really cool updraft gasifier. With a few modifications over by the carburetor, you could turn into a downdraft gasifier. That way you can keep feeding it fuel while the engine is running.
Thanks for sharing. I have been looking for a scaled down version of a Gasifier. It makes it easier to understand the parts better. You can always scale this version up for bigger engines. Thanks for not complicating it by a lot of meaningless chatter. Thanks
Livingoffmyland is correct. This gasification setup is using a retort, heated by a rocket stove; and is not a different style of gasifier, such as downdraft, or Imbert style.
A tidy setup like this should tour the country. Especially on earth day or at state fairs. The thing that helps most is seeing it be assembled with easily available parts. Even if a part is hard to find or imagine a substitute a presenter could hock that part to the audience to help him fund his tour. Assembled systems could be sold for more than the parts. Heck, assemble one show it works. Sell it. Assemble another. Repeat. Take orders when run out of parts.(I thought of using brake line instead of copper pipe. I went with threaded lamp conduit instead to get started. Will see if I can get mine to work too!)
Kade it is more efficient. I know about conservation of energy, the thing is that blowing a fire causes more wood to burn in exchange for more energy released in the form of heat. It's the wood fire equivalent of installing a turbo in your car
Woo-hoo added complexity. There are more efficient gasifier out there that basically burn the charcoal to produce all of the gas components, so the same wood turns into gas's then makes pyrolyzes the next layer.
When power goes out i just light candles. Seriously tho, good demo. Hope you got an A+ at the science fair! Or at least you helped some one get an A lol
I’m genuinely curious if this is more or less efficient than just using the heat to power a steam turbine. I know the concept of the video is showing that you can use wood gas but it would be interesting to see if a diy steam turbine could be built just as easy and be able to measure the effectiveness of transferring the heat energy into electrical energy
I love this channel because it's like Backyard Scientist but he never puts anyone at risk, where Backyard Scientist encourages people to detonate lighters in their own homes Experimental Fun will make generators and generally muck around with science and engineering
I just saw Backyard Scientist make a sword with thermite and wondered how he didn't set himself on fire being as reckless as he was. Never gonna watch that guy again until he pops up in FailArmy video.
120Vac are more than enough to kill you. I got a couple of 230Vac shocks and never really had any consequences other than an aching hand for a few minutes, but it doesn't mean that that's safe.
Wood gas is a great alternative energy source for anyone living off the grid. Especially during the winter months if your solar panels get blocked out most of the season.
Cool video, The Germans were doing this more than 70 years ago. Due to the fossil fuel shortages during and after World War 2, people in Germany, and other European countries, converted many of their cars, trucks and other vehicles to run on wood gas. They also made production cars that were powered by wood gas, using a gasifier that was mounted in the front or back of the car, fed with ordinary firewood and had pipes to transfer the singe gases into the combustion chambers of the engine. I found out about this a few years back and was surprised it even existed. It is amazing to think they used external combustion, to produce a fuel that was immediately consumed by an internal combustion engine! It is a great solution in extreme times. Essentially, a car like that would almost never run out of fuel, as long as there some combustible biomass laying around!
Maybe someday, I could put food in the gasifier and it should work, a few people asked me to try plastic but I would need to put filters so im not polluting the air. I'm also planing it run it on hho.
Electricity is older that the combustion engine... Humans have been messing around with electricity since the 1700s, combustion engines came about in the late 1800s and even then they really didn't become useful until the very end of the century since steam power was well known and widely used at the time
What are your thoughts for 'ongoing' production of gas/energy? Two or three sets with full bypass valves? I'm thinking of how you could utilize a wood stove and the method of making hot water with the wood stove; larger, longer implementations....
That's exactly what I have been needing for the last 33 years! Excellent! It's also the most eviermentel friendly unit in the world! But please tell me, where would I get this unit ( or kit) maybe in a larger model?
Hey Thanks, I like your channel! It hasn't leaked yet , the pipe is connected to the lid with a pipe fitting so the epoxy is only there to make a better seal, when i tightened it most of the epoxy squished out so I would have to take it apart to really find out but it seems to be keeping it sealed.
Me again lol.. I've been watching u're video several times, and noticed that coming out of the water filter, you have a green hose, but then you switch it back to copper that goes up where you light the gas coming out. Is there a reason for that? Thanks again for the video.
I think the only way you can make this better is to put a radiator, powered with a fan to cool the water in your cooling pot other than that... Fantastic build!
Heh, heh! Fun!~ I liked it! Now I'm imagining a really big gassifier with wood gas stored under pressure in a balloon. I suspect that the engine uneven operation was from inadequate gas supply. 12 volt led and compact florescent lights are readily available, you could eliminate the inverter inefficiencies, although I suspect that making 120 VAC was part of the idea. Creative job making your lines and hoses work --- making the fittings function. All in all, I'd give that an A+ grade for a first effort! Can't wait to see wood gas generator 1.2, or perhap[s 2.o
I could put grass and tobacco in the gasifier and it should produce gas just like the wood did, i might try some other stuff in part 2, I could use cardboard or paper, maybe I even try putting plastic in there although that would release chemicals into the air, not so good but then again I could put a filter on the exhaust so it doesn't pollute the air :)
Making charcoal with sawdust or wood chips is more difficult than with just sticks. Had you packed the paint can with just sticks, I think you would have had better success. Cool and simple visual for those seeing something like this for the first time.
Running a 2 stroke engine like that for a long period of time will ruin it because there's no lubrication. However, you can solve this with an oil injector like shops use to add oil to compressed air for their tools. Very cool idea.
Thanks, yeah I have it set up so that it can suck in some 2 stroke oil through the intake, thats what the blue line is for, although I often run it with no oil just to show that its not using the oil as fuel.
with modern materials, efficient LPG, butane and even diesel burners, electronic temp, pressure and torque controls I can see steam as being a very clean, powerful and viable option for everyday transport. I've toyed with the idea of a tri or quadbrid system where diesel is used for ice drive/ charge and steam drive/ charge system as a retrofit to an existing car but the platform needs to be completely unique and very different to a common car today. they just don't have the available space to mount anything without serious cutting and refab so a beach buggy version is my best start point so far. the doble brothers pretty much had it sussed just as steam faded out but modern tech and materials are far superior to what was available to them in that era.
use fresh wood, wood you find on the ground that is already dried out is going to have a lot of the chemicals that make up wood gas already out of them. but this is a great proof of concept. FEMA has plans for a gasifier you can download online, some people here on youtube have built one and run a full sized 2500w generator off them.
I'm impressed. You can incorporate the design into a wood stove and use it cook food and generate power; then put it a tiny house and go off grid!! 😁❤👍👍👍👍
Always loved how smoke was slightly combustible, but I never knew it had this kind of power! Great video!
the heat breaks the wood down, which combining with ambient moisture, forms hydrocarbon gas, along with smoke and soot that is left behind. he filters off the smoke to prevent clogging up the airline.
@@schrodingcheshirecat and also it makes CO gas which is also flammable
Mostly it is carbon monoxide gas, colorless, odorless and highly TOXIC. Be careful. They used this
"wood gas " in Europe during and after WW 2 because petro was in short supply.
Very nice, enjoyed seeing a gasifier project. A few things I would say on how you can modify/improve.
•Try adding peltier modules to the casing oven to drive a fan to allow for more heat.
•upgrade the canister to a larger container for more gasification.
•keep the water colder to allow for more dense gas and also in joint with the peltier module.
•make sure the wood is more dry and broken in down
But other than that great project.
Thanks for sharing. I love the simplistic yet well engineered design to allow people like me to grasp the concept!
Just my 2 cents worth but, a small 4 stroke uses less wood gas and the cooling air from the 4 stroke could provide cooling air to your wood gas condenser. All in all, great results! Keep going, it is a great effort on your part. I realize you used what was at hand, something from nothing. I hope many people can contribute $ to your effort.
That's really, very good😀👍👍👍 First jar of water acts both as a condenser to cool the gas and as flame arrester; because the flame is lit from the second jar -- Well done indeed 😀👍👍👍👍
A man's best friend, runaway sanders, a machete, fire, an engine, some other random bits from around the house and the knowledge to make it all work together... must've been a fun day! Awesome video, keep it up!
That's actually a really cool updraft gasifier. With a few modifications over by the carburetor, you could turn into a downdraft gasifier. That way you can keep feeding it fuel while the engine is running.
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Thanks for sharing. I have been looking for a scaled down version of a Gasifier. It makes it easier to understand the parts better. You can always scale this version up for bigger engines. Thanks for not complicating it by a lot of meaningless chatter. Thanks
your welcome, glad you liked it :)
Actually, this isn't a gasifier. He is using the wood gas that is a byproduct of making charcoal.
Livingoffmyland is correct. This gasification setup is using a retort, heated by a rocket stove; and is not a different style of gasifier, such as downdraft, or Imbert style.
I thought this type of gasifier was called a Charcoal gasifier
Great project, loved the video and the way you explained with Sharpies and nice edits, but your pup stole the show.
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A tidy setup like this should tour the country. Especially on earth day or at state fairs. The thing that helps most is seeing it be assembled with easily available parts. Even if a part is hard to find or imagine a substitute a presenter could hock that part to the audience to help him fund his tour. Assembled systems could be sold for more than the parts. Heck, assemble one show it works. Sell it. Assemble another. Repeat. Take orders when run out of parts.(I thought of using brake line instead of copper pipe. I went with threaded lamp conduit instead to get started. Will see if I can get mine to work too!)
good luck! Ill be adding a small 12volt electric blower fan onto the gasifier to get the fire hotter, It should produce more gas that way :)
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Use the engine to power a fan to blow the fire to make it hotter to make more gas to make the engine make the fan blow more to make the fire hotter :D
lol yeah, I actually bought a cheap small 12 volt blower to do just that, I will probably try it out when i film part 2. :)
brilliant.
That wouldn't be anymore efficent. Conservation of energy.
Kade it is more efficient. I know about conservation of energy, the thing is that blowing a fire causes more wood to burn in exchange for more energy released in the form of heat. It's the wood fire equivalent of installing a turbo in your car
Why not use the exhaust to force the fire?
Great idea! Use larger chunks of wood like oak hicory or other hard wood and the by product would be charcoal to heat the next batch of wood.
4:11 I can confidently say that this man has a lathe. Nothing else makes wood shavings of that quantity.
My planer definitely does
....plenty of timber mills in my region
You are the kind of people who deserves subscribers.....
Now you can use the charcoal you produced to keep your next wood gas burning hotter!
oh yeah, great idea!
Also good for the garden or for filtering water and then putting in the garden. Sequesters carbon that way.
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Surely just boiling water to create steam that turns an AC generator turbine would be simpler
Surferant666 where’s the fun in that?!
First youtuber I've seen who cut wood themselves great video
Yeah good job I guess... But did you see how well behaved that dog was.. Truly amazing!!!
I loved how he used his dog to get rid of his old project.
Instead of letting all that heat from the rocket stove go to waste, you should use it to run a steam engine in parallel with this system
Woo-hoo added complexity.
There are more efficient gasifier out there that basically burn the charcoal to produce all of the gas components, so the same wood turns into gas's then makes pyrolyzes the next layer.
When power goes out i just light candles. Seriously tho, good demo. Hope you got an A+ at the science fair! Or at least you helped some one get an A lol
One of the best selvemade videos on youtube! Excellent! Intro fantastic!
Thank You :)
I love how the music stopped when the motor stalled.
You are the most inteligent man on a youtube!!
I’m genuinely curious if this is more or less efficient than just using the heat to power a steam turbine. I know the concept of the video is showing that you can use wood gas but it would be interesting to see if a diy steam turbine could be built just as easy and be able to measure the effectiveness of transferring the heat energy into electrical energy
I like this idea.
Steam turbines need clean water. Water purification is expensive on boiler packages
STEAM IS 1000X MORE TIMES EFFICIENT.AS IN NUCLEAR POWER
Man kann halt aus der Holzkohle die dabei entsteht wieder neues Holz verdampfen lassen
Germans had versions of Tiger tank working on pyrolized gas. Holzgas engines. Nice experiment
I love this channel because it's like Backyard Scientist but he never puts anyone at risk, where Backyard Scientist encourages people to detonate lighters in their own homes Experimental Fun will make generators and generally muck around with science and engineering
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thanks for your input, pedro
I just saw Backyard Scientist make a sword with thermite and wondered how he didn't set himself on fire being as reckless as he was. Never gonna watch that guy again until he pops up in FailArmy video.
I love this channel. Why is this the first time I've heard of it?
120Vac are more than enough to kill you.
I got a couple of 230Vac shocks and never really had any consequences other than an aching hand for a few minutes, but it doesn't mean that that's safe.
This has got to be good because it was published on my birthday.
LOVE YOUR STYLE! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
Thanks!
really liking how your dog helps!
Such a good dog. Helping dad gather wood. If I could only get my kids to do that ! :-)
haha, he doesn't work for free, i have to pay him in food :)
My kids eat more than your dog, I assure you. :-) LOL.
Wood gas is a great alternative energy source for anyone living off the grid. Especially during the winter months if your solar panels get blocked out most of the season.
This ain’t rocket science but when your RUclips logo has one then it must be!
Cool video,
The Germans were doing this more than 70 years ago. Due to the fossil fuel shortages during and after World War 2, people in Germany, and other European countries, converted many of their cars, trucks and other vehicles to run on wood gas. They also made production cars that were powered by wood gas, using a gasifier that was mounted in the front or back of the car, fed with ordinary firewood and had pipes to transfer the singe gases into the combustion chambers of the engine. I found out about this a few years back and was surprised it even existed. It is amazing to think they used external combustion, to produce a fuel that was immediately consumed by an internal combustion engine! It is a great solution in extreme times. Essentially, a car like that would almost never run out of fuel, as long as there some combustible biomass laying around!
yeah they are a cool idea, the only real issue is how dirty they are, need to clean and change the filters often
Cool..now I can chop up and burn the furniture if the power goes out..:)
I like the helpful assistant.
I like hard work, good Job for the second part 💪
This is so much fun to watch! congratulations!
If it worked for the Tiger H1 tank, it sure as hell works for small stuff...
Old technology that people forgot World War II wood gasifier. Good job
cool after 2.nd WW most of the cars in gemany were working on woodgas...
i know a shepherd who built a generator working this way
Very nice self explanatory setup. Good job ! Please use a tripod in the future.
It’s so cool to see your project. It’s just amazing. Thank you for sharing your amazing video
your welcome, glad you liked it :)
Plasma gasifiers are cool, I doubt you could make one but I think they could be really important in solving both the power and pollution crisis
Instead of Wood Gas use hook up a Food Scrap Methane Generator so you will have a constant stream of Gas.
Maybe someday, I could put food in the gasifier and it should work, a few people asked me to try plastic but I would need to put filters so im not polluting the air. I'm also planing it run it on hho.
@@ExperimentalFun You should definitely make more of these generator videos, I enjoy watching them!
Less water in the bubbler, reuse the spent gasifier wood as kindling, lol, awesome setup, easiest I've seen by far
The human evolution...
Since the fire, passing through vapor, and mechanical motor, and then electricity.
Mark Johnson It's not vapor
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Electricity is older that the combustion engine... Humans have been messing around with electricity since the 1700s, combustion engines came about in the late 1800s and even then they really didn't become useful until the very end of the century since steam power was well known and widely used at the time
The ancient Egyptians invented the battery ;)
Search Bagdad Battery used for gold electroplatting BC.
What are your thoughts for 'ongoing' production of gas/energy? Two or three sets with full bypass valves? I'm thinking of how you could utilize a wood stove and the method of making hot water with the wood stove; larger, longer implementations....
Anyone watching this at the start of 2021 for Apocalypse prep?
thats a very genius idea you should desserve a award fir being a smartest man on earth 😊
you deserve more attention
Thanks :)
Great job! thanks for sharing. I am working with 4 mechanical engineer graduating students who will use it to inspire their graduation research work
Ideas that aren't clickbait
Saw your demolition method and subbed immediately.
Wow, what a nice and great idea for making this generator. Really I want to make this type of generator
That's exactly what I have been needing for the last 33 years! Excellent! It's also the most eviermentel friendly unit in the world! But please tell me, where would I get this unit ( or kit) maybe in a larger model?
Nicely done! How well did the epoxy hold up sealing your tubing to the can under heat?
Hey Thanks, I like your channel! It hasn't leaked yet , the pipe is connected to the lid with a pipe fitting so the epoxy is only there to make a better seal, when i tightened it most of the epoxy squished out so I would have to take it apart to really find out but it seems to be keeping it sealed.
Grand Negus nothing French is high class except wine and cheese though
And their white flags
agreed
@@ExperimentalFun Biomass with thermoelectric modules (Peltier) would be fabulous.
Love your experiments and your effort in doing so. Stay creative 😊
That is the best how to gasifier video I have seen good job....👏👏👏
Woot! Good work :)
Thank You! :)
You had a handsome helper.
Me again lol.. I've been watching u're video several times, and noticed that coming out of the water filter, you have a green hose, but then you switch it back to copper that goes up where you light the gas coming out. Is there a reason for that? Thanks again for the video.
What a great little experiment.
And how does the engine get oil, because the engine is two-stroke?
I think the only way you can make this better is to put a radiator, powered with a fan to cool the water in your cooling pot other than that... Fantastic build!
Nice one...
How many hour you spent?
Thanks, not sure how many hours, I worked on it here and there over the past week,
Heh, heh! Fun!~ I liked it!
Now I'm imagining a really big gassifier with wood gas stored under pressure in a balloon.
I suspect that the engine uneven operation was from inadequate gas supply.
12 volt led and compact florescent lights are readily available, you could eliminate the inverter inefficiencies, although I suspect that making 120 VAC was part of the idea.
Creative job making your lines and hoses work --- making the fittings function.
All in all, I'd give that an A+ grade for a first effort! Can't wait to see wood gas generator 1.2, or perhap[s 2.o
That sawing thing on the end 😂😂
hi Jayden :)
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• Jayden • that's a belt sander xD
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this video to make my happy
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Simple layout & easy to follow for many!!
Thanks 4 sharing bud!!
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You have sealed my grandchildrens' fates to become lumberjacks so grandpa can always have his internets
Are you like Rick Sanchez's brother?
Is your last name actually Sanchez?
Awesome use of woodgas! Subscribed
Thanks for driving over 14,000 viewers to my channel!
Haha Your welcome! Nice waterwheel, I might build a small one some day :)
So what is the gas/fuel it gives off to supply the engine?
Corky Harms woodgas is what it's called.
Very funny at the start i really enjoyed the whole deal great job keep it up.
Make one that runs off of water. (HHo gas electrolysis ) please and thanls
Not generate a related, but fall to light by Laszlo is one of my favorite songs. Loved your use of it in the video. 😄
Now make one that runs on its exhaust btw you're so close to 100 K😁😁😁😁😁
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You are a friggin stud! Badass design.
The process is called brown gas and is incredible nice
Its pretty cool but also very dirty
Experimental Fun can be scalled? i mean with bigger burning chamber and more wood could run a long time?p.s. are interesed in a collaboration?cheers
This was common during WWII due to the lack of petrol for ceviliance people
Yeah this is not browns gas buddy, browns gas is pure hho
Carolyn is right; you're just plain mistaken. Brown's gas is something entirely different.
Great setup... suggestion: alternate the tabs of your stove pipe, inside & out 😉
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Experimental Fun i challange you to, make a generator that runs on GRASS! Will you accept my challange?
Experimental Fun. What about a engine that run on tobacco
I could put grass and tobacco in the gasifier and it should produce gas just like the wood did, i might try some other stuff in part 2, I could use cardboard or paper, maybe I even try putting plastic in there although that would release chemicals into the air, not so good but then again I could put a filter on the exhaust so it doesn't pollute the air :)
Yea that's great.
Thank you for taking my request
make the engine to run on hydrogen
Making charcoal with sawdust or wood chips is more difficult than with just sticks. Had you packed the paint can with just sticks, I think you would have had better success. Cool and simple visual for those seeing something like this for the first time.
Where did you get that 24 Volt Electric Motor?
from a old electric scooter :)
YYy. Jm .
Running a 2 stroke engine like that for a long period of time will ruin it because there's no lubrication. However, you can solve this with an oil injector like shops use to add oil to compressed air for their tools.
Very cool idea.
Thanks, yeah I have it set up so that it can suck in some 2 stroke oil through the intake, thats what the blue line is for, although I often run it with no oil just to show that its not using the oil as fuel.
Thanks for the clarification. Keep having fun making useful-ish (or at least interesting) found item machines!
Make a steam powered one! You could make a steam locomotive or gokart xd
:)
I'm sure ill make something steam powered someday
with modern materials, efficient LPG, butane and even diesel burners, electronic temp, pressure and torque controls I can see steam as being a very clean, powerful and viable option for everyday transport. I've toyed with the idea of a tri or quadbrid system where diesel is used for ice drive/ charge and steam drive/ charge system as a retrofit to an existing car but the platform needs to be completely unique and very different to a common car today. they just don't have the available space to mount anything without serious cutting and refab so a beach buggy version is my best start point so far. the doble brothers pretty much had it sussed just as steam faded out but modern tech and materials are far superior to what was available to them in that era.
The dog is a genius!!!
Made light with a fire, I'm sure it's just me.
It is bro
Great experiment!
Great German Shepherd!
Anybody watching this in January 2024 because ww3 is about to begin?
Yes
Whut?
I must say you did get a good result good work brother good work I'm about to try the same thing
Thanks :)
Use this on houses.
You could make your own electricity and use the fire to heat your house :)
Orhan Öztemür what the fuck are u spamming
I saw the coke can generator too and it inspired me to subscribe
Wow
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Great demonstration. Well done.
“Gasifier”
I pressed subscribe immediately after the belt sander in the intro, I thought I was the only one who did mad stuff like that haha
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I like how it’s designed.
use fresh wood, wood you find on the ground that is already dried out is going to have a lot of the chemicals that make up wood gas already out of them. but this is a great proof of concept. FEMA has plans for a gasifier you can download online, some people here on youtube have built one and run a full sized 2500w generator off them.
I enjoy your creativity and editing Style