Is a Gasifier a True Alternate Energy Source? Heating wood or other organic matter in
a gasifyer is done to liberate the volatile elements inside the wood.
These gasses when released can be used for heating, or ignited in an
internal combustion engine to make power. The simplest element of the
gasifyer is that is a canister that is insulated to hold in the heat.
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This
is the process of turning wood into carbon monoxide and hydrogen
by reacting the raw material (wood) at high temperatures with a
controlled amount of oxygen. Without oxygen, the wood can't burn so it
transforms into gas. This gas can be used as fuel in an internal
combustion engine.
Possibly the most efficient means of converting organic fuels into
energy available to the common man today?
What this
means is, that the construction of a relatively simple machine, all
kinds of organic waste such as, twigs, small branches, wood chips, pine
cones, rice and corn husks, even chicken litter waste, can be gasified
to produce a volatile gas which can be burned to make heat, or used in
an internal combustion energy to make power?
An example or real life cars running on Wood
Gas - This comes from an old Swedish wartime film of residents who
ran vehicles on the gasifier principle because petrol was not available.
You can see the manufacture was not a backstreet operation, the ideas
were well known and used in a practical way.
All this is well within the lifespan of
people alive today and it seems difficult to believe this technology has
virtually disappeared?
Gasification 101 Module 1
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And Here.
The wood gas can be burned in a boiler
of furnace or used to run an internal combustion engine for transport or
to generate electrical power.Converting wood to flammable wood gas
releases
more useful energy, in a more usable form, than if the wood was burned
directly.
The chemistry of wood gasification was formalised in the 1850's, having
been studied from observations known for centuries to blacksmiths and
ironworkers, from their workings with charcoal forges and furnaces.
Gasification was extensively deployed in WWII Europe for running road
vehicles when petroleum fell in short supply. Up to 1 million European
vehicles were fitted with wood and charcoal fuelled gasifiers.
