I work at a molding shop. All the wood goes through a gang rip saw before it gets to the molder. We probably have well over a ton of scraps each week. If I did this, I'd never have to pay for gas again. I could probably power my house on that wood.
Got to love Wayne Keith. Been following him for a bit and learned a lot. I haven't done much lately but plan to restart my project soon and post more videos. Thanks for posting this, it helps with motivation.
@Nigel Cam : Perhaps a small percentage of the population can use this system. Another percentage can use solar power to charge their car batteries. Another percentage can use wind power. Another percentage can use sugar converted to ethanol.
@Dane Aulabaugh I don’t know where you are getting your information from. Solar panels are not made from fiber glass. They are made of nearly pure silicon. There are 2 types. There is the single crystal type and polycrystalline type. You don’t need petrol. An electric arc furnace is used to convert SiO2 to Si and SiC. The source of power is electricity which could come from hydro or anything else. Fusion power is not ready yet. Petrol and coal are finite because nature is not producing any new sources or at least not at a fast enough rate. That’s what finite means. Solar, hydro, wind are very large sources. There is so much joules there. Way more than humans can use and it keeps on coming.
That right old man stick it to the oil companies face. I admire what you've done and it looks like a nice clean set up compared to others that I've seen.
Brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing! The world needs people like you so desperately! A modification to my truck is certainly somewhere in the near future.
My god, this is so elegant and beautiful. I mill lumber and cut down a lot of trees. The ugly and small wood becomes firewood. Then there are chips for the garden but they compost very slowly. To be able to burn the FREE debris remainder to make gas to run a generator to charge a bank of batteries for free electricity and then have biochar left over for the garden soil is like a miracle! I MUST do this!!! No waste stream whatsoever!!! It does not get more elegant than that!!@!
@marias man Yeah, It's a beautiful time to be alive! I was thinking also of using excess energy to pump water uphill to a very large storage tank and then either use it to irrigate or run a micro-hydro turbine to recover the electricity at a later time. So, I'll see your heat exchanger and raise you a gravity battery! LoL..
@@3Sphere youll be exerting more energy pumping it up hill then gaining when you drain it down hill. But nice idea. For your wood ship issue. If you dont end up using gasification. Grow some mushrooms. For one it treats depression and anxiety if you grow the right ones. But two it eats the wood chips faster than anything else and they are worth a ton as well.
i like the idea, i am doing things a little different, i am using compressed natural gas on my vehicle and intend to build a biodigester to make some of my own then compress it into the cylinders for later use, keep prepping man, ur doing good things and teaching us all that we can be independent.
Cool 🔥 definitely see how it could be useful for farmers and ranchers to have an alternative fuel source in the event of scarcity due to blockades or war
excellent video and information. This info must be spread to many. My wind turbine shop is small, and off grid. for the heavier electrical tool, I need to run the generator. From what i have gathered around several videos, creating the wood gas is easy. It's the filtering that makes the best difference. The temp, cooling for dew temps, and the final extraction of the rest of the moisture means the difference of tar, and a dry efficient burn that has no tar buildup. That and regular cleaning of the radiator, or heat exchange system. That pretty much means a nice long travel through decent diameter pipes, and dryers. I'm betting that air filters have to be changed often as well. I still have questions like, " how big of a system do i need to run my 10KW genny for welding all day? ". Thanks very much. MUDDy
muddymuddymuddmann Believe It or Not? There is a document in FEMA that you can download it's a PDF about 90 some pages and it shows you how to build a simple downdraft gasifier out of commonly available materials. In there is a special chart that shows you diameters of your burn chamber for certain size displacement engines. I bet you didn't think there was anything the government did that was good right? Apparently, the professor at UC Davis made the tractor run off Woodsmoke.
Check out www.woodgasifierplans.com he has pretty in depth manual on building a high grade gasifier. Currently I seen today he is offering the book for free, it's usually 30-40 bucks. This fella Wayne even has a review in the book.
I been gasifying wood and animal waste and taking out the oils and running the oils into a stainless tube with aluminum the heat of the fire makes the trapped oils become gas and then becomes gasoline and diesel and another burnable gas which is methanol GREAT VID
I'm very interested in building a gasifier for my truck. my big question is how do I get around the computer controls on the modern truck to make it work?
Now I understand the desire or even the "need!" for some people to have to have plans to be able to build anything, but for what it's worth, I watched the video, listened to him explain how it works, what each component does, how it's routed, and what a lot of it is made out of. I also watched the video and can clearly see the size and estimate lengths of almost everything taken from the scale of a common pickup truck, for the bits he didn't call out size for. Drums explain themselves as they only come on a handful of sizes. I am not being sarcastic, and I apologize to anyone if it comes off this way, I did not mean for that. I however AM encouraging people to do a little work for themselves, and discover some improvements they can make along the way as well as learn so much more. This is NOT rocket science it's operated on the very basic principles of thermodynamics. Now, if you are not that handy, and need to have the plans, if you absolutely must, I would be willing to help draft up some with materials, to get you very close to what he has on his rig, including a better pic chip computer controlled automatic fuel controller to keep your mixture dead on and the stock computer happy, and eliminate all the manual valves. The manual valves are very easy to operate and make though, and for the most part they would still be there, and could be make to have bypass manual control built in in the event of an electronic failure. However if a nuke is detonated kiss all those electronic anythings goodbye anyways LOL, it'd be se how long we can survive in our underground fallout shelters till we starve :p Cheers my friends, IC.
I have gone to some of the forums and they have a lot of information there on the gasifiers but I wanted to get your opinion on something. How deep and how big around does my hearth need to be to run a 8 cylinder Chevy 350 engine? Also, how do you clean out the ashes from your gasifier without taking it apart?
This is excellent. I'm a big fan of alternative energy - especially if it cuts out the big corporations from the picture. I'll be building and installing a solar water heater this summer. Would love to run the car on biofuel, too. Well done, Wayne.
Hello noelsingletary, Hey thanks for the post. I agree with you on most of the items, I could use a lot more education. You characterize the steel pretty good; actually at about at about 1400 degrees the steel will start scaling. If we bring the temperatures on up to apx 1800 degrees this is when the scales will be shedding. At about 2200 degrees would be where I would think the mild steel would start to melt. If we happen to have wrought we can go some higher. Thanks Wayne
Hello Wayne, Thanks so much for your information on the Gasifier. I'm looking for information on rebuilding my chimney that my woodstove uses. i would like to reroute the exhaust into a line that could be used for Gasification. Would you know any one that has done this? Thanks again
that awesome , I'm looking at the water vacume thing at the moment , just a sealed hard container with one hose going to the vacume with it half full of water , have you seen the vapour come off it under vacume interesting now I just got to see if its flammable , I wonder if your wood fire would have enough vacume to suck it off and burn it
Excellent presentation! I have just started investigating this concept and was wondering if using charcoal would be more efficient or would it be the same? I am not sure if the compactness of carrying charcoal vs a cord of wood in the truck would have an advantage not only by volume and weight but also by the BTU output. Best regards
What do you mean when the temperature gets down to the dew point? Besides the moisture in the wood some of that water is coming from the combustion itself you know carbon dioxide CO2 and water H20 are the products. Good idea to use the ashes as fertilizer no waste at all.
Hey Wayne I was wondering if I could use my air conditioning in my chevy I have to condense the moisture from the syngas? I know it won't help with horse power but it will make the gasifier less bulky.I'm trying to design a low profile gasifier with 6 small burn chambers,run the truck on wood pellets and cool the gas with my AC.
I wonder how much efficiency loss there would be using a heat exchanger hooked to the air conditioner compressor. This could cool the gass much colder to get more water out using much smaller parts.
NOPE. The carbon will eventually all return to form of CO2. May be too slow for you to see but it will happen inexorably. Why worry though? Global warming is a scam.
I would like to see a good look at how your wood "chunker" works at about 1:18 into your video. I have a good guess but I would rather have a good idea. Thanks!
In relation to mknytb's question. Mr Keith mentions that the 3 main gasses are hydrogen carbon monoxide an methane all three are compressable. However you mention for home use, depending on where you live, there are all sorts of burocratic red tape to cut through. Is it worth the effort to compress.
How long does it take to pull away from a cold start? If you get up in the morning and want to drive to work, how long until you can pull out of your drive way? Thanks.
I Like to see a video on how you made the breather air box with mixing values ... does anyone know if there someone that show how to construct a breather air box with electronic control
i don't think it's a diesel, in the US trucks run on gasoline and only gasoline can be run on CO. Diesels on the other hand can be run on Methane or Bio-gas.
Dumping ash can be done easy and as quick as a few seconds or as long as a few minutes. I will film and post the quick version. @ waynekeith01 Your internal dominions will depend on what design, FEMA, imbert, GEK, LaRosa, Keith ect. Some use the principals of superficial velocity to archive the pyrolysis distillation and others may chose different routes . The key is to maintain near metal melting temperatures in the core of the reactor.
So in other words the wood polutes the same as far a s carbon whether you burn it or not. other than co2 of course but as long as we have enough trees co2 is fine. Is that what he ment?
No he meant it emits a net zero carbon emission. He means he is reducing the carbon that can go into the atmosphere by using it and emitting more healthy gasses as a bi- product.
When running on woodgas, the AFR gauge barely registers the fuel ratio but it's enough to help you dial in the mixture. If you wanted to be more accurate you could get the Lambda readings.
Very cool but it's too bad that it takes up space in the bed and blocks the rear view. I wonder if a small gas generator could fit under the hood with a smaller engine that's optimized to run on wood gas.
there are very few videos on it, but you can connect woodgas to the intake of an air compressor (usually where an air filter is mounted) to store the fuel
You cannot store hydrogen gas presurized. Especially with the other gasses emitted. They will separate and theres a chance of air entering the system and becoming explosive.
It wont be a 1:1 ratio of fuel and air, geting mixture right looks tricky, love the idea of free-ish fuel though, exhaust emmissions will be clean but the fire to make the gas may not be!
The only emission that is released is usable gas. The inly smoke released is the smoke that escaped while starting the fire. That smoke is basically harmless to the environment. More smoke is emitted every year in california. Than if every vehicle in the world was powered by a wood gas-fire right now
What if you took this system and supplied a boiler with it? Maybe create a system like Doble had in his cars back in the 20's. Wood powered steam engine with 1000ft/lb of torque. You could create an ECU that would run it all for you. That would be the ultimate apocalypse vehicle. Include a wood chipper in line with the hopper, so you could just feed it dead fall. You could do the same and run a generator with it. I wonder if that would be more powerful than a gas engine running on wood gas.
Can I compress wood gas? If so, can I set up home fueling system in to gas tank from this gasifier for CNG vehicle instead of producing the gas on the truck as you go? If this wood gas system runs over 200HP engine, it mean it can generate way over 100KW (as 10kW generator runs on 12-13hp engine) which can run 7-8 households, and exhaust the CO2 into green house in back yard. Can annoyingly fast growing bamboos produce wood gas like other wood? This wood gas seems to act just like natural gas, then if I build giant gasifier with reinforced concrete I can heat house, generate electricity and fuel car from wood? I can pack the gas in tank as I need and generate the gas as it runout, so I don't have to watch the fire all the time. This is amazing. Thank you very much for sharing! So.. Can I compress the wood gas and use it like CNG?
nobody tried to compress CO tho, the syn-gas contain some complex hydrocarbons that can be liquified and some fractions that can't (like methane). It's possible to optimize wood pyrolysis to get more oil fraction than gas and char fractions.
@@zazugee there is a guy on TH-cam who has done it (look up compressing wood gas) the danger is (from what I have heard) is that there can be oxygen present when it is compressed meaning even the slightest spark could set it off.. others have tested this and disproven it and it could/should be somewhat safe but nobody has any solid scientific proof from what I have seen so far..
This was the best info on wood gas I can find. Love it. The solution to energy problem has been around for decades.
Always has been. We never got the chance to see steem turbine train locomotive but they were very very efficient before they got cancelled.
@@MarquisDeSang good point, sad to say but the powers that shouldnt be, don't want anything efficient
This aged incredibly well
I work at a molding shop. All the wood goes through a gang rip saw before it gets to the molder. We probably have well over a ton of scraps each week. If I did this, I'd never have to pay for gas again. I could probably power my house on that wood.
At over 5 dollars a gallon and unlimited free wood or basically free this is looking mighty nice.
I love the capability to run either wood gas or gasoline, and the fuel shift on the fly.
Good
Lots of cars and utes in Australia do the same with natural gas and gasoline.
Farmers always have been and always will be the smartest, most resourceful people.
This guy is a national treasure and should be protected at all costs.
This is another beautiful example of the
Great Awaking ! May we continue to enjoy your work! Blessing!
Got to love Wayne Keith. Been following him for a bit and learned a lot. I haven't done much lately but plan to restart my project soon and post more videos. Thanks for posting this, it helps with motivation.
Oil hit $120 a bbl again today - - I'm back here learning how to convert my 460 engine (7.5 liter) Ford F350 to wood gas!!
it is amazing that skeptics to the reliability of these systems still chime in here! Of course the Energy giants don't like this Idea.
@Nigel Cam :
Perhaps a small percentage of the population can use this system.
Another percentage can use solar power to charge their car batteries.
Another percentage can use wind power.
Another percentage can use sugar converted to ethanol.
@Dane Aulabaugh I don’t know where you are getting your information from. Solar panels are not made from fiber glass. They are made of nearly pure silicon. There are 2 types. There is the single crystal type and polycrystalline type. You don’t need petrol. An electric arc furnace is used to convert SiO2 to Si and SiC. The source of power is electricity which could come from hydro or anything else.
Fusion power is not ready yet.
Petrol and coal are finite because nature is not producing any new sources or at least not at a fast enough rate.
That’s what finite means.
Solar, hydro, wind are very large sources. There is so much joules there. Way more than humans can use and it keeps on coming.
@Dane Aulabaugh, how about we grammar check you!!!
Nice to see people still using there heads and thinking outside the box thank you sir!!!!!!!
That right old man stick it to the oil companies face. I admire what you've done and it looks like a nice clean set up compared to others that I've seen.
Brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing! The world needs people like you so desperately! A modification to my truck is certainly somewhere in the near future.
My god, this is so elegant and beautiful. I mill lumber and cut down a lot of trees. The ugly and small wood becomes firewood. Then there are chips for the garden but they compost very slowly. To be able to burn the FREE debris remainder to make gas to run a generator to charge a bank of batteries for free electricity and then have biochar left over for the garden soil is like a miracle! I MUST do this!!! No waste stream whatsoever!!! It does not get more elegant than that!!@!
@marias man Yeah, It's a beautiful time to be alive! I was thinking also of using excess energy to pump water uphill to a very large storage tank and then either use it to irrigate or run a micro-hydro turbine to recover the electricity at a later time. So, I'll see your heat exchanger and raise you a gravity battery! LoL..
@@3Sphere youll be exerting more energy pumping it up hill then gaining when you drain it down hill.
But nice idea.
For your wood ship issue.
If you dont end up using gasification. Grow some mushrooms.
For one it treats depression and anxiety if you grow the right ones. But two it eats the wood chips faster than anything else and they are worth a ton as well.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 yes, I suggest wine cap mushrooms (Stropharia)
Great video, great seeing it come across my feed!!! Wayne is great 👍
*LEGEND* !!!
probably gonna save many lives this winter.
Thank you for all you know and for sharing with the world,GOD BLESS.
i like the idea, i am doing things a little different, i am using compressed natural gas on my vehicle and intend to build a biodigester to make some of my own then compress it into the cylinders for later use, keep prepping man, ur doing good things and teaching us all that we can be independent.
Thanks grandad appreciate your time and energy sharing,
God bless!
Cool 🔥 definitely see how it could be useful for farmers and ranchers to have an alternative fuel source in the event of scarcity due to blockades or war
anyone that can get a speeding ticket for burning too much wood is a hero in my book. Go Wayne
great video sir. I appreciate the time and effort you have invested into producing it. Love the can-do spirit. Keep it up.
excellent video and information. This info must be spread to many. My wind turbine shop is small, and off grid. for the heavier electrical tool, I need to run the generator. From what i have gathered around several videos, creating the wood gas is easy. It's the filtering that makes the best difference. The temp, cooling for dew temps, and the final extraction of the rest of the moisture means the difference of tar, and a dry efficient burn that has no tar buildup. That and regular cleaning of the radiator, or heat exchange system. That pretty much means a nice long travel through decent diameter pipes, and dryers. I'm betting that air filters have to be changed often as well.
I still have questions like, " how big of a system do i need to run my 10KW genny for welding all day? ".
Thanks very much.
MUDDy
Hey Bud, Don't tell anyone you have a wind turbine! The dictators are arresting people now for stuff like that!
muddymuddymuddmann
Believe It or Not? There is a document in FEMA that you can download it's a PDF about 90 some pages and it shows you how to build a simple downdraft gasifier out of commonly available materials.
In there is a special chart that shows you diameters of your burn chamber for certain size displacement engines.
I bet you didn't think there was anything the government did that was good right? Apparently, the professor at UC Davis made the tractor run off Woodsmoke.
Check out www.woodgasifierplans.com he has pretty in depth manual on building a high grade gasifier. Currently I seen today he is offering the book for free, it's usually 30-40 bucks. This fella Wayne even has a review in the book.
Wayne wrote the book on it. his site is www.driveonwood.com/
Thanks-mate always fascinated by wood powered vehicles. Professional setup and all the numbers to-boot. Great.
Have you checked the rating from osage orange wood?
Excellent quality construction
I been gasifying wood and animal waste and taking out the oils and running the oils into a stainless tube with aluminum the heat of the fire makes the trapped oils become gas and then becomes gasoline and diesel and another burnable gas which is methanol GREAT VID
this is pyrolysis, you can optimize it to get more oil fraction than gas fractions.
@@zazugeeHow do you optimize pyrolysis to get more liquid oil fraction than gas.
I'm very interested in building a gasifier for my truck. my big question is how do I get around the computer controls on the modern truck to make it work?
Your a smart man
.I'd like to learn more on how you siffered that.
Now I understand the desire or even the "need!" for some people to have to have plans to be able to build anything, but for what it's worth, I watched the video, listened to him explain how it works, what each component does, how it's routed, and what a lot of it is made out of. I also watched the video and can clearly see the size and estimate lengths of almost everything taken from the scale of a common pickup truck, for the bits he didn't call out size for. Drums explain themselves as they only come on a handful of sizes. I am not being sarcastic, and I apologize to anyone if it comes off this way, I did not mean for that. I however AM encouraging people to do a little work for themselves, and discover some improvements they can make along the way as well as learn so much more. This is NOT rocket science it's operated on the very basic principles of thermodynamics.
Now, if you are not that handy, and need to have the plans, if you absolutely must, I would be willing to help draft up some with materials, to get you very close to what he has on his rig, including a better pic chip computer controlled automatic fuel controller to keep your mixture dead on and the stock computer happy, and eliminate all the manual valves. The manual valves are very easy to operate and make though, and for the most part they would still be there, and could be make to have bypass manual control built in in the event of an electronic failure. However if a nuke is detonated kiss all those electronic anythings goodbye anyways LOL, it'd be se how long we can survive in our underground fallout shelters till we starve :p Cheers my friends, IC.
he wrote a book on it. I'm sure there's info on his site on how to automate it as well www.driveonwood.com/
Well that's a mouthful. It's not about saving your ass. it's about being independent. Alternative fuel. Cheers.
I have gone to some of the forums and they have a lot of information there on the gasifiers but I wanted to get your opinion on something. How deep and how big around does my hearth need to be to run a 8 cylinder Chevy 350 engine? Also, how do you clean out the ashes from your gasifier without taking it apart?
This is excellent. I'm a big fan of alternative energy - especially if it cuts out the big corporations from the picture. I'll be building and installing a solar water heater this summer. Would love to run the car on biofuel, too.
Well done, Wayne.
Amaizing. Thank you so much for doing this!
Are you hard-core enough to put in ceramic sleeves, that way you can run it dirtier?
Hello noelsingletary,
Hey thanks for the post.
I agree with you on most of the items, I could use a lot more education.
You characterize the steel pretty good; actually at about at about 1400 degrees the steel will start scaling. If we bring the temperatures on up to apx 1800 degrees this is when the scales will be shedding. At about 2200 degrees would be where I would think the mild steel would start to melt. If we happen to have wrought we can go some higher.
Thanks
Wayne
Hello Wayne, Thanks so much for your information on the Gasifier. I'm looking for information on rebuilding my chimney that my woodstove uses. i would like to reroute the exhaust into a line that could be used for Gasification. Would you know any one that has done this? Thanks again
Great video. Im new to the game and its really awesome to see it in action. TY
that awesome , I'm looking at the water vacume thing at the moment , just a sealed hard container with one hose going to the vacume with it half full of water , have you seen the vapour come off it under vacume interesting now I just got to see if its flammable , I wonder if your wood fire would have enough vacume to suck it off and burn it
Excellent presentation! I have just started investigating this concept and was wondering if using charcoal would be more efficient or would it be the same?
I am not sure if the compactness of carrying charcoal vs a cord of wood in the truck would have an advantage not only by volume and weight but also by the BTU output.
Best regards
Wonderful! HOW DO YOU BUILD ONE?
Do you have the plans available to build this unit?
You are an absolute badass! Thanks for the inspiring video!
Very good information and video. Thank you for sharing.
Great video and an impressive top speed.
Does this method only work with gasoline or diesel engines?
Gasoline only. Bio diesel is the only way for adiembatic compression that a diesel uses.
Yeah wood gas only works on gasoline engines.
I love your approach.
Very good sir.
Simply amazing thank you for sharing
What do you mean when the temperature gets down to the dew point?
Besides the moisture in the wood some of that water is coming from the combustion itself you know carbon dioxide CO2 and water H20 are the products.
Good idea to use the ashes as fertilizer no waste at all.
Hey Wayne I was wondering if I could use my air conditioning in my chevy I have to condense the moisture from the syngas? I know it won't help with horse power but it will make the gasifier less bulky.I'm trying to design a low profile gasifier with 6 small burn chambers,run the truck on wood pellets and cool the gas with my AC.
Do you have a link to part 1 ?
I wonder how much efficiency loss there would be using a heat exchanger hooked to the air conditioner compressor. This could cool the gass much colder to get more water out using much smaller parts.
Wood gas is carbon NEGATIVE, not carbon neutral! The biochar is more stable carbon than the rotting tree would be.
Wow! This is super-cool technology.
CB CBlargh You are absolutely correct. It reduces whatever carbon may be put back into the atmosphere by a tree or trees.
plus, he can grow a garden on the biochar
+CB BC:
That`s true. It is making coal. It can be thrown in the fireplace for burning it some more.
NOPE. The carbon will eventually all return to form of CO2. May be too slow for you to see but it will happen inexorably. Why worry though? Global warming is a scam.
I would like to see a good look at how your wood "chunker" works at about 1:18 into your video. I have a good guess but I would rather have a good idea. Thanks!
th-cam.com/video/fLm9G98RUGE/w-d-xo.html, th-cam.com/video/HLVPRhnphrA/w-d-xo.html
they don't really care about emissions they care about the tax there not collecting on wood fuel! great video thanks!
can a car radiator be used to cool the charge air? more efficient and compact and cheap
yes
i'm just learning about this. awesome.
This is so cool and I never understood why they didn't use gassifiers on THE WALKING DEAD.
That would be perfect.
I can’t find part 1. Help please
Can the mechanical or build specs get posted? I found this post to the most informative and promising!
I saw on another channel that you can get the free specs on the FEMA website
@@tammyplourde2859 Probably plumbs the CO directly into the cab 😂
In relation to mknytb's question. Mr Keith mentions that the 3 main gasses are hydrogen carbon monoxide an methane all three are compressable. However you mention for home use, depending on where you live, there are all sorts of burocratic red tape to cut through. Is it worth the effort to compress.
if you run out of fuel in the middle of nowhere, you can chop some wood or grass et voila!!
I'm mostly interested in his wood chunk cutter gizmo.
Great video
How long does it take to pull away from a cold start? If you get up in the morning and want to drive to work, how long until you can pull out of your drive way?
Thanks.
Pull a lever and close a valve and use the gasoline
@@THINKincessantly Thanks, 10 years later I got an answer. 8^)
I wish this guy lived next door to me
He does what he does so he doesn't have to live next door to you.
If it weren’t for this dang lock down... we’d go an visit im’....!
I Like to see a video on how you made the breather air box with mixing values ... does anyone know if there someone that show how to construct a breather air box with electronic control
Nice video. Still would like to see the "bowels" of the setup. Thabks
So can you run a diesel engine on wood? What makes me ask is I thought the diesel provided a lubricant the the cylenders.
i don't think it's a diesel, in the US trucks run on gasoline
and only gasoline can be run on CO.
Diesels on the other hand can be run on Methane or Bio-gas.
seems that more home power generation systems would be available by now if this is such a reliable system??
Lololol no.
This is too free of energy.
Theres too much money to be made by big oil
Is it dangerous? I have an idea for a filter!
Has the wood used been cured? If so to what moisture content? You have a very good system, well developed. Farmers Rule!
Dumping ash can be done easy and as quick as a few seconds or as long as a few minutes. I will film and post the quick version. @ waynekeith01
Your internal dominions will depend on what design, FEMA, imbert, GEK, LaRosa, Keith ect. Some use the principals of superficial velocity to archive the pyrolysis distillation and others may chose different routes . The key is to maintain near metal melting temperatures in the core of the reactor.
Hope youre well sir.
You are a supper great person !
40 bucks for a cord of wood. Here in 2022 just 10 years later its $300.
Price is irrelevant if you grow your own.
So in other words the wood polutes the same as far a s carbon whether you burn it or not. other than co2 of course but as long as we have enough trees co2 is fine. Is that what he ment?
No he meant it emits a net zero carbon emission.
He means he is reducing the carbon that can go into the atmosphere by using it and emitting more healthy gasses as a bi- product.
Does he have an old Railroad guy stoke the firebox while he’s driving ?
anyone have info how to automate the air mixture usinng air intake sensor and an Arduino
Can i store that gas in a cooking gas can and mont it to the vehicle?
No. You cant store each of the gasses and keep them mixed. Hydrogen also is very volatile.
Beautiful!!
Could it be done with coal?
worddunlap coal is great
misspell
coal gas can be produced in the same method, but it is more expensive. You can't take the charcoal from it as you can from wood or other biofuels.
I see he using a air to fuel gauge ..the question is what the air ratio 1:1 for gasifier.. i though these wide band gauges read 14:1 of so?
When running on woodgas, the AFR gauge barely registers the fuel ratio but it's enough to help you dial in the mixture.
If you wanted to be more accurate you could get the Lambda readings.
wood you be able to build agenerator based on your system love your truck
Just search wood gas generator :)
Who knew in 2022 gas is about to go through the roof so you will probably see tons of people doing this.
Yep
I WOULD LOVE TO MEET WAYNE KEITH IS THIER ANT WAY TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM?
yes. go to his site www.driveonwood.com/
Pretty slick!🤗
Great info.
Very cool but it's too bad that it takes up space in the bed and blocks the rear view.
I wonder if a small gas generator could fit under the hood with a smaller engine that's optimized to run on wood gas.
probably easier to just use the wing mirrors
That's unlikely. The size of a the wood gasifier is just a necessary part of the gasification process.
I'm thinking last night how take smoke gas and put in propane tank or condensed .this very good idea
there are very few videos on it, but you can connect woodgas to the intake of an air compressor (usually where an air filter is mounted) to store the fuel
You cannot store hydrogen gas presurized. Especially with the other gasses emitted.
They will separate and theres a chance of air entering the system and becoming explosive.
I wanna build one of these.
Biochar is really good for soil biology
It wont be a 1:1 ratio of fuel and air, geting mixture right looks tricky, love the idea of free-ish fuel though, exhaust emmissions will be clean but the fire to make the gas may not be!
The only emission that is released is usable gas. The inly smoke released is the smoke that escaped while starting the fire.
That smoke is basically harmless to the environment.
More smoke is emitted every year in california. Than if every vehicle in the world was powered by a wood gas-fire right now
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
9 years ahead of many.
What if you took this system and supplied a boiler with it? Maybe create a system like Doble had in his cars back in the 20's. Wood powered steam engine with 1000ft/lb of torque. You could create an ECU that would run it all for you. That would be the ultimate apocalypse vehicle. Include a wood chipper in line with the hopper, so you could just feed it dead fall. You could do the same and run a generator with it. I wonder if that would be more powerful than a gas engine running on wood gas.
@marias man Wise words that are very appreciated. Thank you.
you are my hero
these are the kinda men we need lol
A rare breed now
$40 per cord ! ! ! ..in Canada its $300 in a town surrounded by forest
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Thanks so much!
If Einstein had a southern accent lol 😂
Can I compress wood gas? If so, can I set up home fueling system in to gas tank from this gasifier for CNG vehicle instead of producing the gas on the truck as you go? If this wood gas system runs over 200HP engine, it mean it can generate way over 100KW (as 10kW generator runs on 12-13hp engine) which can run 7-8 households, and exhaust the CO2 into green house in back yard. Can annoyingly fast growing bamboos produce wood gas like other wood? This wood gas seems to act just like natural gas, then if I build giant gasifier with reinforced concrete I can heat house, generate electricity and fuel car from wood? I can pack the gas in tank as I need and generate the gas as it runout, so I don't have to watch the fire all the time. This is amazing. Thank you very much for sharing! So.. Can I compress the wood gas and use it like CNG?
It wouldn't be worth it. Not enough energy density.
Thank you. I guess I was hoping too much.
nobody tried to compress CO
tho, the syn-gas contain some complex hydrocarbons that can be liquified and some fractions that can't (like methane).
It's possible to optimize wood pyrolysis to get more oil fraction than gas and char fractions.
@@zazugee there is a guy on TH-cam who has done it (look up compressing wood gas) the danger is (from what I have heard) is that there can be oxygen present when it is compressed meaning even the slightest spark could set it off.. others have tested this and disproven it and it could/should be somewhat safe but nobody has any solid scientific proof from what I have seen so far..
@7:28 As a 30 year arborist ,This is true.