amazing homemade gasifier uses wood pellets to run generator -- renewable alternative energy video
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- Gasifier uses wood pellets to create flammable mixture that a generator can run on without gasoline. This video shows how it was constructed, how it works, and how to use it from start to finish. Great project for anyone looking for alternative energy or wanting to live off the grid.
Just for some clarification -- I mention a rheostat that I ordered; I ordered a 25w 20 ohm rheostat. That rheostat will effectively give me the control to adjust the voltage to the blower motor from 12v down to nearly 0v (I think... I'm not an electrical engineer).
Excellent and thanks for sharing, I' writing from Spain, my father who was born in 1913, was a cars mechanic, and he explained me that after the spanish civil war (1936 - 1939), Spain's lack of petrol moved many mechanics like my father, to self build wood or coal gasifiers, really very similar to yours, (Spanish called "gasógenos"), they were supported at the back of the car with iron rods welded to the chassis, and he runned thousands of miles (several times across the whole Spain) with different cars, Peugeot, Citröen, Fiat, Ford, and a very rare 1920 Maxwell, with which I learn to drive when I was a child.
Gasifiers were very common in Finland during WW2, since what little fuel we could get through went to the Finnish Army.
I can't even imagine what they would look like. Is there any way you could email me even a very rough sketch of how that would be set up? Thank you for whatever you can send. ChangingMatrix@gmail.com
impressive
the germans also researched woodgasifiers, cause germany didnt have much oil and they needet the diesel fuel for something different back then.
@@apuuvah Yes, populary used in trucks and such weren’t they?
A friend whose father grew up in Finland was powering a Log Haul Truck with a Gasifier! He had enough smarts to modify the Camshaft for more opportune Valve Timing! In his locale, he had the Hot Rod Pulp Tractor, pulling loads of Tree length Birch. He said a small potato bag of cubed green Poplar was enough for a day's work, smouldering away!
Spectacular!! THIS is what America was built on . . . pure DIY freedom!! MORE of this please!!
Remember what they took from us
Pretty low understanding of history, but hey its about how it makes you feel right?
that and also slavery
A miniature powerplant. And looks like it'll fit on a pallet. Well done.
How to plant grape seed
Actually shared your video and the FEMA plans with several families in the Florida panhandle in the days following Micheal. I was there from day 1 to day 200 with the USACE BluRoof project. With some areas there being without power for up to 3 months after the storm, gas and diesel in very limited supply (for a variety of reasons), and trees piled up everywhere, those wood gasifer systems we cobbled together were life savers.
Your video just came back up in my feed and I realized I had not thanked you.
Do you have any pictures of the units built. JR M built one of the nicest looking units ive seen but i would love to see what you cobbled together in the midst of a disaster.
@@pestalinc I think I have a couple. I'll have to see about finding them when I get back home.
I've heard it's finicky with wet organic matter. How did you do that?
@@mikuhatsunegoshujin we charcoaled 2x4s and framing material from house debris to start the gasifiers on. The hoppers were big and above the fire chamber/mantle (which were heavily insulated to max the heat) to allow the pine tree chunks to steam out that we mixed more chunked house debris with. In the end the gasifiers were not built to be perfect or run for decades. They were built to produce fuel gas to run generators for a year or two. We did have to increase the size of the tar sludge catchment container on one and I sized the biomedia filter boxs larger than recommended. It was running and gunning, just get it up and working we will sand the edges later kind of fabrication work. Plus we didnt shut them down until there were issues and then fired them back up. As services were brought back on line they were shut down and scrapped for the most part. I know one old man north of Mexico Beach a mile or so said he intended to keep his for next time.
I'm actually building one currently I can use at home to learn with. It is fascinating technology.
@@RenaissanceThinking That is fascinating. I almost cried when I saw what happened to Mexico Beach. I spent many wonderful vacations there over the decades since the 60s.
Dude, you can even go to a non English speaking country to teach American English because your pronunciation is so clear and you are so patient.
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This is one of the best gasifier demonstrations I have ever seen. And yet the oil industry continues to say that hydrocarbon fuels are non-renewable, when in fact everything the sun grows can be turned into smoke and combusted.
Imagine running one of these on hemp, grows soooo much faster than trees...
@@perfectstranger1152 I humbly offer all of my work on the subject for free: theriseandstallofthepistonengine.weebly.com/ I hope you will check it out, especially Ch 2 and Ch 7. Cheers!
@@perfectstranger1152 But it's far less energy dense, lol. Wood is the perfect fuel for this application.
@@gayusschwulius8490 If you pressed hemp into pellets would the density be the same?
@@raysteel6317 Probably yes, but I think the total growth rate of hemp isn't higher than that of some types of wood if you account for the difference in density. The total biomass (measured in weight) grown per time per square meter of land should probably be about the same for hemp and wood.
This is the greenest energy I've seen. Wood is completely renewable. Well done.
Wood is renewable only if you can grow back all the trees. And it is actually extremely difficult to grow a forest. If it were easy, then places like Arizona would have grown back its forests. Archaeologists have solid evidence that Arizona was once a big forest, just like Amazon. And Amazon is NOT an old forest. Instead, it was pretty new and only started to regrow after all humans were wiped out for some unknown reasons.
@@bantrump9594 Haha, you’re a silly person. You grow a harvestable forest in 20 to 30 years.
@@jasonk4855 The soil will deplete. You can't keep taking away the minerals and organic matter from the soil. You need to educate yourself. People like you are dangerous to our mother nature.
@@bantrump9594You should take lesson from Abe Lincoln -“better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”. Go find a protest somewhere to occupy yourself. Leave the important matters to people who know what they’re talking about. 😉
@@jasonk4855 hemp
"Holzvergaser" a lost Art which was powering quite a number of cars in Germany after the war. Thanks for the Vid!
Good to know 👍
Similar, on the other side of the ocean, this is how farming was possible during WWII, as American farmers put wood gasifiers on their tractors
@@email4664 its something how we went back to diesel fuel.
In Spain were actually used between 1936-1959 after the civil war,there were also electric cars and it's not a joke in the 1940 there were electric taxis in Madrid ,,
Get you a flat bed truck with a 500 gallon tank
A pillar of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night. This is truly a gift from the most high.
What is a Volcano?
@@TalinFrenzy a volcano.
Dude this is amazing design! I never had any clue anything other than natural gas, gas, or propane could power a generator. This is awesome! I converted my generator to natural gas using a kit, this is a whole new level. Much respect and God Bless you!
Great welding, painting, and good looks. Never wear safety glasses, gloves, a lab coat, or think "what could go wrong?" Great job!!!
@Y T Soooo true. If they could only have predicted the future and be able to decide then whether to make a baby like me ..... or not. Still, did you enjoy the complement about your good welding? Did you enjoy the complement about the good paint job? Did you enjoy the complement about the good looks? Did you enjoy the complement about doing a great job? Did you enjoy insulting my parents? I assume Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes! Go get ‘em Tiger and keep up the good works.
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@Y T Soooo true. If they could only have prdictd the future and decide then whether to make a baby like me. Still, did you enjoy th complement about your good welding? Did you enjoy the complement about the good paint job? Did you enjoy the complement about the good looks? Did you enjoy your insulting my parents? I assume Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes. Go get ‘em Tiger and keep up the good works.
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Awesome !!!
This has got to be,
One of the best Homemade Gasifiers I have ever seen so far !!!!
Thanks 4 Sharing Bud!!!
violeman I agree. This is one of the best homemade Gasifiers I've seen. Very nice looking, easy to see and well explained how it was made and such a great demonstration from startup to running a saw off of it!
Thanks so much!
violeman Yep, I second that.
The balance of stokiometry (air fuel ratio) happens at both the front fuel end and again at the engine generator. I've built larger versions of these (10MW)...partially choke the inlet feeder with a double gate valve assembly and you can improve the efficiency. The reason the barrel is getting hot is because there is too much combustion taking place at the feed end. It's a delicate balance keeping both variable components in perfect balance.
You need J-U-S-T enough gasification to generate combustible pyrolysis gases (mainly methane C4, C5, C6 hydrocarbons)to feed the engine. Too much air flow and you are unnecessarily combusting wood pellets and unnecessary heat the barrel. BTW when you move into the C8 hydrocarbon range you are in the octane range or gasoline range. PYROLYSIS can generate biodiesel C16-C20 range some of which is mixed with the water in that separator glass.
Great work though... hats off!
@@invent5540 great analysis John. You seem to know your stuff. Got any videos or materials on what you just explained? Thanks in anticipation of your response
@@josephjames7658
Hi Joseph... I worked with a retired elderly man in the early 80's who studied at the Zurich Poytechnic Institute under Einstein before WWII... he often spoke about how the Polish underground ran their vehicles using Pyrolysis wood gasification in WWII. Before he passed away we built two reactors. The second was 10MW! A monster... Pyrolysis... true PYROLYSIS is absolutely without the presence of Oxygen... gasification is poor mans pyrolysis! But still good... true pyrolysis generates 100% activated carbon. Gasification damages the carbon matrix with oils that fill the Carbon voids. Lookup Absorption vs. Adsorbtion as it relates to Activated Carbon. Typically we use freaon mass variations to measure the quality of the Activated Carbon. This technology can "believe it or not" SAVE this planet... since it sequesters Carbon. I could go on and on btw.
You did such a great job explaining everything you did and I respect how you built this to last. Excellent work!
i finally understood how this works, without reading any book but by watching the same video for 173 times :)
now i can make a giagantic gasifier out of my grandfathers pizza giant oven
relatable comment lol
I've seen a few gasifiers on the internet but this one has to be close to being the best yet. Well explained and given me enough of a push to consider building one like it.
Damn this is awesome!! In 2021the hardest part of building this is finding a RadioShack for the potentiometer!! Lol. All jokes aside this is super cool man!! Thanks for sharing. Kudos to you sir.
What a smart young man. These would work great in a Off Grid Environment.
Hey JR fantastic build. One suggestion on temperatures, the hotter you can get your pyrolysis zone the cleaner the gas will be (less Tar) but right after that you want it to get as cold as possible so the gas condenses better. On mine I attached an old radiator and added a bubbler filter full of marbles (the ultimate tar remover). Works like a charm with my inverter generator.
Do you have any diagrams to share or parts list?
A small S&T consensor is best if you can get your hands on one. Either have water circulating through the coils or immersed through and through (not u-tube)
Definitely need a condenser …
Marbles? Brilliant
Using soft copper tubing coiled around the barrel to a large hot water tank will put the waste heat to good use. Running the generator at optimum rpm to charge a battery bank will keep the generator from wasting a lot of wood gas when not under load.
Yea this is probably the best one I’ve seen ever.
Great video! You motivated me to build this. It's too bad you need to have bars on your house. I used to own a security alarm company and always heard about people dying when their house caught fire. I sold alarms in a ton of bad neighborhoods. Some areas were so bad that my customers insisted on walking me to my car. lol
Most of Outback Australia up to 1945 generated electricity from huge suction gas engines, they used wood gas to run them through a retort and using massive horizontally opposed engines that created the suction through the wood charcoal gasifier. After WWar II converted to diesel.
Very well done. Your generator was sitting there and running without a single miss. Finally a gas unit that actually runs at a sustained rate.
You can find plans from popular mechanics I think from ww2 where they have designs that were intended to run a car on. Federal government, probably fema, has published plans also. I didn't hear where he got his design or if it's all his I skipped through a bit
@@MF11283 shame on you.
Excellent. You have it. If there was an engineering version of American Idol, you be in the finals.
Omg what an idea.... Why haven't they think about that yet
hahahaha and there should be,,id much rather watch that
You do know that this tech was used on bicycles that ran on wood gas right?
Japan has a show like that. It's called supreme skills.
Their is one
I have to comment on this build and video! This is amazing and truly educational! You explained things well and my favorite part is talking about the FREE manual you can get and read to learn how to build your own. This is an answer to problems we have and a way for the regular person to solve them with wood which is around us all. Thank you for making this video!!
I seen one of those up in the mountains and it had magic powers when you drink the juice we would sing songs around the fire wearing nothing but our Willy warmers .. oh the good old days 😊
This as a concept needs to be invested in more nowadays. This is genuinely amazing.
Yeah, so we can cut down all our trees in the next 10 years. Go green!!!
kostman23 Hey, let’s continue using fossil fuels and cause irreversible damage to the atmosphere so we can make ourselves extinct! You do realize that this stuff has 1/10 of the carbon emissions.... and that TREES REGROW...
It is being used widely but in bigger scale ~200kw or bigger power generators that burn like 100kg of biomass every hour.
holy cow, this is an eye opener, and the crazy thing is your vide is from almost 7 years ago!!
Considering that during/after WW2 many vehycles in Europe ran on this, you can't say it's that much of a breakthrough. But he did a good job.
@@trezapoioiuy yeah, i learned that after scrolling thru the comments, but only after writing the above down
You want you brain to boil, check out the guy that drives a 90's Dodge pickup with wood.
@@jeremy8942 crazy world
Its not renewable if it uses fuel. Wood pellets are fuel. The sun is renewable. No fuel required. Technically the sun is fuel also if you think about it. Just like allot of folks think nuclear energy is renewable. Its not. It uses fuel. Its more efficient. Big difference. I do like it. You did a fine job on this project.
The best explanation of gasifier on CZcams
You got that right 👍
@@charlieharrington1144 yes
Good job! Good explanation! Think about a gasifier that would provide heat and hot water for your house along with running a whole house generator and become totally self sufficient!
And think about no one tree left standing lol
If you can buy or rent a few acres of medium-wet land, then grow biomass varieties of willow, you'll be more than self sufficient in energy production.
My Grandad ran his car, (a Hudson), on a gasifier during WW2 when petrol was very difficult to get.
Awesome... I'm going off grid soon and this will be a fun little project to top up my batteries once in a while on cloudy days.
Outstanding! Compact unit, ur hard work will pay off. They should be teaching and building these in high schools.
I dream of one day going off grid lifestyle. That is why I am watching this.
@@salvationbygracethroughfaith Your comment has aged very well.
Do you have a wood gasifier now?
@@salvationbygracethroughfaith Or going old school.
No cars, just bicycle and horses / mules.
No electricity, just a pantry, candles / oil lighting, whatever.
Solar might require less maintenance for a while, but, i'm not sure batteries will hold 5 or 10 years, i'm poorly educated when it comes to batteries.
For lighting, i think there those solar lights which absorve enrtgy during day, and give out light when the dark falls, without batteries, if memory serves me well.
Maybe all of these would be preferable.
Just a couple of more info, though.
An old robust diesel car such a diesel mercedes from the 80's and 90's and earlier, can run on olive oil and cooking oil.
I tried running olive oil on a mitsubishi l200 from the late 80's.
Old tdis tolerate the cooking oil too.
In Africa, some people store their food in clay jars, surrounded by wet sand, and a tube or other recipient in the center.
And of course, the survival skills are cool to know, too.
Smoking meat, gutting out animals, knowing what parts to eat, how to extract water from nature, such as wrapping a plastic bag to a branch, to condensate water, and so on.
Damn, big text, i guess i'm apprehensive too, about the world.
Too bad i'm broke as hell and i can't afford building my doomsday stuff, so to speak.
@@salvationbygracethroughfaith I live in Portugal, but i research a lot.
Yap, your nation is severely affected.
The poop on SF and other places, is really an ominous sign.
My family has land, and at least one terrain near a dam / river.
But everyone is still having faith that food will never cease to exist on the stores, and that the cities will continue to be livable.
Maybe, most will.
But, for me, i'd be better off in the settings that you described.
If i weren't so broke, i'd be living off grid for some years now, having at least one source of natural energy.
I'm very attracted to the old ways, even if i'm in mid 20's.
And it's the same everywhere, rural areas got deserted, people abandoned agriculture and other rural type of business, to seek better livelihoods, in the city.
All fine and dandy, as long as the evil bastards don't interfere with the natural forces of the economy, imo.
But this is all by design, i'd say.
Nice work & video. if you get a wide range O2 sensor on the exhaust of the gen, you can dial the mixture a tad rich and the gen engine will last just as long as reg fuel. gas(fuel) helps cool the piston, so your gonna want to stay a bit rich. you may be able to run some of the exhaust back into the gasifier - lacking O2 it might keep it from back burning...keeping it cool. I like your setup
This gets a thumbs up simply because in an instructional video without crap music narrated by a person. It's good as well!
That's the purest form of electricity lv ever seen! Excellent!
This is an excellent application example. Ideal for charging a bank of batteries in the winter when the sky is overcast etc...Nice neat job too.
I remember seeing a picture of this exact setup on a SHTF forum years ago and now I finally get to see it in action. Thanks for posting the video man.
I didn't realize how old this video is until he said Radio Shack.
I am a bit late at watching your video JR but I am very glad I did! Thanks for posting! And congratulations on a job well done!
I keep coming back to this demo, it is the best implementation I have been able to find :-)
Actually, I was thinking about it. The cooler the gas is not about energy, but getting rid of water vapor. Water vapor is a product of partial combustion of wood and it doesn't burn. So you want to cool the wood gas and get that to condense out. Thus leaving you with a better fuel. Plus water being a product of combustion, if in the mix to begin with will reduce the combustion because it is a product of the reaction. Basic balanced equations stuff from Chemistry class. Finally I got to apply this knowledge!
How to improve the system? Have a pipe that just goes down and let gravity pull out the mositure? Put a valve on it to drain every once in awhile. The other option is to have a radiator built into it.
I realize my comment is very late. Very impressive! I'm thinking, based on the invisible flame, you are burning mostly hydrogen. You've filtered out most of the carbon. How green are you! Nice work young man!!
Love the gasifier stuff! In Sweden we had cars that run on it when the gas/petrol was at an all time high.
Next version would be some sort of TEC that took some of the heat generated and convert it (thru a custom charger) electricity to charge a battery. That battery would then power the fan and maybe even start the fire. The generator would be a custom one that was built for gas for maximum throughput.
So in essence put branches in press button wait for power... that would be awesome... and then make it small an compact (but still use off the shelves parts for cheap repair/build).
And a solenoid to do some shaking :-)
Hello Jr. Both your machine and the video are very well thought through and executed. I admire your sense of craftsmanship. Thank you very much!!!
Too cool. The answers are out there. I saw a YT video of a guy in France who cleaned the dead wood from the forest and used it to compost. The gas was used to run his van and the heat it gave off was used to heat water for his house.
Bars on the windows...alarm placard in front "lawn". Honestly, I think lack of power is going to be the least of your worries if power goes out for a hot minute.
The best demo I've seen connecting up the geni. No one shows the application usually, just the build, so thanks again
Excellent build. You did a great job of explaining how & why this system works. The pictures of the inside really helps.
Big thanks to you, this is by far the best vid on these things I have seen .a great visual as well as verbal explanation. It can be hard to get one's head around how and why something works you have given me the itch to build one myself now when the summer gets hear so I'll be off collecting parts till then :) great job ...
$4 a gallon gas after one year in the oval office. I'm gonna make a gasifier. Thanks for the video of your excellent build.
SUPER clean design! Awesome job! I'm just now learning of this technology. I'm hoping I can build one myself! Thanks for sharing!
Well done. not only for the finished product but for the video as well. You know what you wanted to say and you said it. Saved me a lot of screaming at a LCD screen telling people to get on with it. Your description of the way it worked was nice and simple and while I have been toying with the idea of building one of these for a while have been put off, a bit, by the seemingly involved explanations. Like the use of materials as well. Can get most of that from the dump recycle shop. Thanks.
Heres an idea. Coil some copper pipe around the parts that are getting hot, hook the pipes up to a radiator with a fan and boom, its also a free heating system and keeps it cool
only just found this video. terrific unit and does the job. should be more of this going on and more people looking into it. well done
Great job! I have some questions about practicality:
- In a situation where petrol isn't available, it seems unlikely that wood pellets would be available. Can you run this thing on logs, branches, twigs, kindling etc?
- How long can you run this on a single "tank" of wood?
- If you load the generator, does it stall?
- What regular and irregular maintenance is required? For example, how often do you have to replace the wood shavings in the filter? How often do you need to clear the ash? How often do you need to empty the jam jar? Are there other jobs necessary to keep it running over years? Do any of those jobs involve partial or full disassembly?
Its amazing to see a petrol engine run on wood, now I want to know what its like to actually use this cool tech.
This video is probably the most informative I have seen on a gasifier. Thank you.
Just downloaded the plans and this video, I am definitely building one of these in the future.
One idea though. If you get a generator with electric start, you could start the gassifier with the gen battery and then start it off the battery and then it would be recharged for the next use.
The fan in this design uses 25W at most, which means that 3 18650 cells would be able to power it without any issue. You don't need to pay extra for a generator with a fancy electric starter, a Powerbank that does 12V will easily do it.
@@nottheengineer4957 Well electric start would probably make it easier if you didnt have the fuel valves set, idk just seems like less to worry about cause it maintains itself. It would probably be a used generator off facebook anyway so I dont think price would factor in much.
@@Jasonrotfl Im with you. Ill buy the fancy electric start generator while I can. Not like you can get one after the Boogaloo or full chinese invasion hits, or some other disaster. Might as well make your life just a little easier.
@@exterminater267 did just that. three generators on hand - one dedicated to gasification just in case. Plus the 4.6 kilowatt in solar panels...you know what's going on these days...not sure about "tomorrow"...
I need one of these for my Farm, done a nice job painting it and fixing it up. seen several that look like old moon shine steals
Very well done..I’ve seen so many that come close to working but don’t, yours actually works! Congratulations!
I find that cooler wood gas works more consistently with very few fuel/air adjustments and a very steady engine operation. I simply used old water pipes with fins from old baseboard heaters running back and forth in an 8 foot water tank, but any design for the water tank will work if shaded from the sun.
Thanks for the video.
My hat’s off to you man! So inspirational and totally Rad. Beautiful build and incredibly resourceful- obviously you’re an engineer, whether professionally or just naturally-born. You’re awesome and your modesty shines through
Great video, good job explaining in detail how it works and how you assembled it, nicely done
Great, you've demonstrated that the genny runs on your output - now shut it off for the rest of the video!
That is nice. I have seen a show on discovery where some people use same type of gasfier and run their pick up trucks on the gas generated by same type of gasifier. They only difference was that they used wood logs. It can be done. In some countries they burn trash and run gasifiers to make electricity, but the pollution issue has to be considered.
Zain Abidin the cyclone unit and the carbon scrubber are setup to collect the dirtier compounds. However, if it is just wood, the product would primarily be methane, as seen by the invisible flame. The input of trash would result in noxious (NOx) compounds and harmful sulfur compounds and other acids... naturally you want to avoid that unless you are using a multimillion dollar plasma gasification system
I remember that show! Do you remember the name??? I thought about that same show as I was watching this but I failed to remember.
Best I've seen. Keep in mind it produces less power on smoke gas than with petrol. So if you plan to run stuff get the biggest generator you can afford. Run the smoke gas through a large radiator, like off an old bulldozer, early in the process and attach the goop trap under it. That will take a ton of heat off the gas. And if you can mist water on that radiator at the same time you will substantially cool it further.
Your video has stood the test of time, it is still the best gasifier build and explanation on youtube....Thank you!
Perhaps the cleanest and most professionally built gasifier I have seen to date. Kudos! Btw, instead of a rheostat, you should use a pwm motor controller for a dc brushed motor. They also make controllers for brushless, but they are a bit more expensive. But great build! 🙂
How much rpm motor for blower is required for operation
@@raismohammadmuqeemmubin3379 depends on the gasifier, size and shape of the rotors
Wow...nice job! Good explanation and execution. Thank you.
Very impressive build. The only thing I would have done differently would be to get rid of the rubber couplers (your weak link), add a cooling system of some form and possibly a car blower motor instead of a inflation motor (they aren't designed for continuous duty.) You could also use a blower motor switch and resistor block from an old car to control your speed.
It doesn't need a constant duty blower motor, it only needs to run a few minutes to start it up - about the same duty as blowing up a large air mattress.
@@WestCoastWheelman Got it! Thanks for correcting me!
Great video. I too watched this 5 plus years ago
And CZcams recommended it again. 🙂👍
I liked it then and find it more interesting now.
This is brilliant! All you need to do now is build a case to dampen the noise of the generator.
Looks like a very neat straightforward system.
Sadly if you can smell camp fire at the engine exhaust it means you are still getting creosote/tar in the gasses which will inevitably gunk up all the engine parts, this is the reason wood gas trucks weren't used for very long. Maybe multiple tar catchers can be put in place to try and minimize what manages to escape.
Run thru an oil-bath air cleaner should work unless the tar/creosote/asphalts (heavy oil products) are vaporized to the point of bypassing the oil in the air cleaner...🤔🤷🏻♂️🤔🕵🏻♂️??
@@westtexastll1978 just need to cool the air enough first right? Oil bath cleansers seem really cool and straight forward.
This man is living in Texas and he has seen it coming...
Wow.. Not only simple design but also very economical too. Great Job JR M
Dude! Thanks for making such an educational video. Don't question your own motivations and goals about how you completed your project. Let the naysayers show off their own "superior" projects.
You or someone needs to start selling these! Full KIt could include:
1. one gasifier with large woodchip loader and pilot light on a timer.
2 one 2000-4000w gas generator
3. Two large battery generator
4. maybe some solar panels (in case you run out of wood chips lol)
have the gasifier charge the 2000-4000w gas generator, which then keeps one or both of the 2 battery generators/banks charged at all times. Endless energy.
Endless wood chipping.
You sir, are an awesome thinker. Good use of stuff laying around and sourced.
I watched a WW2 Documentary years ago that showed one of these on a German tank. Now, I understand what it was ! Great Video !
Pretty slick! I'm in the process of learning all the maths involved in a gasification. I plan on adding some automobile sensors for gas mixing automation.
Nice projekt. If I can i sugest one inprovement, Mount a radiator betveen the barrel and the cyklone seperator. You want the woodgass to be as cool as possible before seperating , moisture and all the oder gunk that comes out of the barrel
love how its uniform, looks pretty PRO
Wow
Its amazing
I had never seen this type of experiment in my life..
I love to see that good ole American ingenuity . Congratulations .
Thank you, that was really interesting - a very concise explanation and well presented video. Good paint job too, looks almost factory-made!
Jr that's an amazing machine you put together bro!!
Someone should market these. They would sell like crazy right now.
It’s the most intense gasifier I’ve ever seen
This is impressive! It'd take some doing and someone with the knowledge, but it'd be really awesome to rig up a microcontroller and stepper motors and such to make the whole thing self-regulating. Automatic adjustment of the air/fuel ratio into the generator, blower speed control, grate shaker, etc. Anyway, this is a really good setup, and quite an achievement! One other thing: how well does it keep up when the generator is loaded? A saw draws way more power when it's cutting something.
I have hundreds of achers of wood I can use, could you help me make a blueprint
You can use perforated metal with 1/16" holes as a backfire arrestor it works very well and wont fail. I do lots of testing on different forms of fuel vapors and this method has worked for everything I have tested.
The air to fuel mixture will be allot easier to dial in if you use a gate valve instead of a ball valve. The gate valves will fine tune the ATF allot better then a ball valve.
Hope this helps.
Globe valve would be the best. Since you're not supposed to adjust flow on a gate valve.
That would work fine too. You don't have a high pressure behind the gate valve so it will be just fine.
You are really genius and have done a great job,its so clean almost without smoke at all.
Looks great, and nice color choice too! Love the army green.
CZcams recommended this to me 6 years later. (Even if I've watched it before.)
Super nice build man. I’m behind the curve but I plan to build one large enough to power my house in outages here due to severe weather. Very exciting stuff! I’m like a kid in a candy store with this stuff...and the plastics potential with gasification output...holy cow, diesel and gas from plastic...I mean come on
How are you getting fuel from plastics? In a gasifier? Sorry but I'm also new to this and trying to learn as much as possible, using plastics for fuel sounds amazing.
Amazing Job!! I need to make one of these because my utility/ power company is unreliable and the power goes out all of the time. Thanks for the great ideas.
Every house hold should have this as a back up , as we never know when is the world going crazy !!!! Just to survive !!!!
This video is 6 years old and is the best I have seen. Thanks for sharing. Excellent video. How long can you run the generator with the full load of pellets?