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Don_P
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# Posted: 17 Jun 2016 11:08pm - Edited by: Don_P
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It's crude and Rube Goldberg but this guy is doing neat stuff. He is using a homemade woodstove to heat a sealed container of wood pieces. They burn in the absence of oxygen producing charcoal and a wood gas. He is taking that gas, cleaning and catalyzing it in various ways to produce a liquid gas or diesel like fuel, then running a propane fridge pilot, a gas generator. . Neat stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o5M6v1eD4I
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Wilbour
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# Posted: 20 Jun 2016 09:20am
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Interesting intersection of topics. The cabin I had signed to purchase on P.E.I. (fell through at the 11th hour thanks to an ex-wife) was built by a guy from Vermont.
He created a wood-gasifier pickup truck. Used wood to create gas which in turn ran his I.C.E.
Again, read my post after writing only to see my inadvertent use of "11th hour" when it's coincidently the name of the ex's radio show.
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Don_P
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# Posted: 20 Jun 2016 11:26pm
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I bought a Lindsay reprint of a WWII era book on producer gas vehicles years ago. Running the sawmill on the scraps is one of those someday projects. Wood gas seems better suited to a stationary engine. This was the first time I had seen someone make a liquid fuel, that is transport fuel. Doing a little more research this looks like the process developed by exxon-mobil. A couple of links if anyone needs late night reading, deeper into chemistry than I can follow;
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/47594.pdf
http://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/04/f22/demonstration_market_transformatio n_knight_3417.pdf
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