you are correct, there are many good man putting up really good vid's regarding this tech. and we should add you to the list my friend. very good coverage. wonderful.
Ahhhh, that great feeling when you run your engine on home made fuel for the first time. You'll always remember it, and surely smile each time it comes to mind :) . Keep up the good work.
***** Don't fight the addiction. Let it take over. Amazing new technical ideas will come to you - at the most unusual times. A a result, maximum coolness will be achieved in pretty short order :) .
Great! Now that you have wood gas I'm guessing you plan to convert to a generating system to power your home? If thats the plan then you may be in for a surprise. As typical portable generators are not meant to run 24 hrs as they are made cheaply and are good for a short (perhaps a few days) duration. Fortunately in my area there is natural gas and that is what I run my generator's on. You notice I said generator's. You may need to alternate them to balance the wear and tear if long term use is required.
I don't believe you can have too much suction at start up... you want it to get very hot very fast so you don't make tar. I use a small shop vac for start up... works well and I know my system is hot in 5 minutes or less.
Looks like a good set-up and it seems to be behaving itself,, i have taken the liberty of using your wet scrubber idea, i adapted a 12 volt camp shower system ,hope you dont mind,,,,,,with some extra mods on my filters i now have a wonderful blue flare,, much research and development after 3 years finally ,, check out my automated hopper (fan motor), and grate shaker (windshield wiper motor),, the whole system uses a 12 volt battery,, thanks again and great job ,, cheers from down under.
Hey Joe it's nice to see the engine running. Joe be careful with the gas on the filtered side. What I try to achieve is to have the gas invisible on the filtered side. If you see any smoke or fog it could be lighter tars that aren't getting broken down in the gasifier. Are you running on wood pellets? They are hard to burn clean. You can also pack the filters a bit harder to clean the gas up too. Just experiment till you find the right combination. So far, you have everything looking really good man!
flash001USA Hi flash it turned out I didn’t pack my filters as I should, this is why I had smoke. I put in more saw dust and bingo that was the key. I do use wood pellets and some wood chips. As of right now I find the wood chips are giving me a little headache with bridging problems, as for the wood pellets less of a problem. Im just putting another video up and buddy I find some interesting experiments with the flame. Once the fuel wood pellets or chips are down to the start of the reduction zone lip things get really lean or the flame is from orange pink then violet blue then blue due to the chips or pellets turning into charcoal. Now if I don’t add any wood when the flame is blue it will burn itself out. So instead of adding wood pellets or chips all the way full in the gasifier making them moist, I believe adding little bits at a time help breath the machine and help keep the filters very clean. Sure your adding 4 hands full of wood every 7min about it sure keeps things clean. Its cool man to see this. Cheers man
***** Joe I tried wood chips and they didn't work well for me either. I use dead branches from the woods that have naturally dried out and seasoned themselves dry. I cut these into a mixture of 3/4 to 1 inch chunks and they work fine. I start the gasifier with biochar and once the system is hot I add the wood fuel. Wood pellets are hard to burn without tar being produced due to the air flow in the ember bed not being able to penetrate into the fuel very well.
Nice work
Very very interesting 👌👌👌👌🤝🤝👍👍
you are correct, there are many good man putting up really good vid's regarding this tech. and we should add you to the list my friend. very good coverage.
wonderful.
Thanks bud
Ahhhh, that great feeling when you run your engine on home made fuel for the first time.
You'll always remember it, and surely smile each time it comes to mind :) .
Keep up the good work.
thanks again. I know what a great feeling when something you make works. Your right wood gas can be addicting bud : )
*****
Don't fight the addiction. Let it take over.
Amazing new technical ideas will come to you - at the most unusual times.
A a result, maximum coolness will be achieved in pretty short order :) .
Great! Now that you have wood gas I'm guessing you plan to convert to a generating system to power your home? If thats the plan then you may be in for a surprise. As typical portable generators are not meant to run 24 hrs as they are made cheaply and are good for a short (perhaps a few days) duration.
Fortunately in my area there is natural gas and that is what I run my generator's on. You notice I said generator's. You may need to alternate them to balance the wear and tear if long term use is required.
Nice build.👍👍
Congratulations! That violet colored flame is very nice. Shows it has good H2 and CO mix. very clean too. nice job.
Thanks very much!
Good job. I hope when I get mine up and running it works as good as yours.
James Farmer absolutely thanks man
very interesting
I'm attempting to do that with rice husks in Thailand
awesome thanks
Hi , just wondering where did you get them blowers
Please
I had to make 1 and its not great
Hi Marc I used a bilge blower style then what I did was get a rubber pipe coupling reducer from Home Depot or Lowe’s hope that helps bud
I don't believe you can have too much suction at start up... you want it to get very hot very fast so you don't make tar. I use a small shop vac for start up... works well and I know my system is hot in 5 minutes or less.
Looks like a good set-up and it seems to be behaving itself,, i have taken the liberty of using your wet scrubber idea, i adapted a 12 volt camp shower system ,hope you dont mind,,,,,,with some extra mods on my filters i now have a wonderful blue flare,, much research and development after 3 years finally ,, check out my automated hopper (fan motor), and grate shaker (windshield wiper motor),, the whole system uses a 12 volt battery,, thanks again and great job ,, cheers from down under.
that's what its all about sharing ideas man, awesome to hear it worked out for ya bud Merry Christmas
Hey Joe it's nice to see the engine running. Joe be careful with the gas on the filtered side. What I try to achieve is to have the gas invisible on the filtered side. If you see any smoke or fog it could be lighter tars that aren't getting broken down in the gasifier. Are you running on wood pellets? They are hard to burn clean. You can also pack the filters a bit harder to clean the gas up too. Just experiment till you find the right combination. So far, you have everything looking really good man!
ya buddy your right I need to pack the filters a bit harder. Thanks again bud for your help really appreciate it
*****
Joe are you running on wood pellets?
flash001USA
Hi flash it turned out I didn’t pack my filters as I should, this is why I had smoke. I put in more saw dust and bingo that was the key. I do use wood pellets and some wood chips. As of right now I find the wood chips are giving me a little headache with bridging problems, as for the wood pellets less of a problem. Im just putting another video up and buddy I find some interesting experiments with the flame. Once the fuel wood pellets or chips are down to the start of the reduction zone lip things get really lean or the flame is from orange pink then violet blue then blue due to the chips or pellets turning into charcoal. Now if I don’t add any wood when the flame is blue it will burn itself out. So instead of adding wood pellets or chips all the way full in the gasifier making them moist, I believe adding little bits at a time help breath the machine and help keep the filters very clean. Sure your adding 4 hands full of wood every 7min about it sure keeps things clean. Its cool man to see this. Cheers man
*****
Joe I tried wood chips and they didn't work well for me either. I use dead branches from the woods that have naturally dried out and seasoned themselves dry. I cut these into a mixture of 3/4 to 1 inch chunks and they work fine. I start the gasifier with biochar and once the system is hot I add the wood fuel. Wood pellets are hard to burn without tar being produced due to the air flow in the ember bed not being able to penetrate into the fuel very well.
flash001USA I will be sure to try that out my friend thanks a bunch