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by mikey ny on Thu Mar 31st, 2005 at 05:50:39 AM MST
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Now this all sounds like too much fun. The gasifier book i got from a site galled the gengas page. It was put out by a guy named Harry LaFontaine who passed away somne time ago. His work is carried on by a guy named Tom Reed, who operates the BEF press (Biomass Energy Foundation Press). He is an excellant source of info on gasifiers. In a small scale experiment i filled an old emplty paint can with some dry maple blocks,put the lid back on, poked about 12 small holes in the lid and put it in my outdoor boiler on a bed of hot coals. After about 15 min. there were 6 inch flames shooting out of the holes, thats what convinced me to go the the next level. So i think it is worth a try to store the gas if i can develope a safe method to do it. Surely, someone else must have tried this before, although i have yet to hear from them. I suppose if they failed in their experiment storing the gas, i may never hear from them
I intend to use the gas to run through my nat. gas burner gun to backup my wood boiler. The burner does not draw in the gas, since natural gas comes the the house in a pipe under very low pressure i won't need to store the gas at a high pressure. As i said before i think i need to somehow draw the gas into a large container, then seal it and apply air pressure to it to force it into a propane tank. I have no idea how long a 100 lb. propane tank full of gas will last if i could get it in there in the first place. If I use a downdaft gasifier i will need a vacume or draft of some sort just to keep the gasifier going. If i use a closed cointainer (destructive distilation), the gas may flow into the tank under its own pressure if i pipe it to the tank. That eliminates the need for a vacume and the gasifier is much easier to build and i think you get a better quality gas from it.
With a little more discussion and research i think it will work.
Mr. Mikey... "I thought I made a mistake but I was wrong"
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