I can see in theory how that would work, I may give it a whirl in the future and see what I can do.
Since I mostly WANT the charcoal, with the system I am building everything that is NOT charcoal would otherwise be a waste product to me. That is why I plan to try to do as much as posible with the heat and gasses as I can and have pure charcoal left over. Or the other way to think of it is heat my home and get free gasses and charcoal at the same time.
Now, on the other hand
I have to heat my home in the winter, I might be making more charcoal then than I will need all summer. It might be nice to try this and if I can get Hydrogen from baking charcoal and injecting steam, then I could make as much charcoal as I can to provide everything else in the winter as the waste product, THEN durrng summer us the extra charcoal to re-bake more charcoal which is injected with steam, then run a gennie off that Hydrogen.
I would probably burn out barrels too fast this way though.
So a thought here, could I make a small oven out of plate steel, fill with charcoal, seal it, heat the bottom red hot with a charcoal and forced air fire (like blacksmithing or metal casting) then spray water onto the red hot steel bottom to make the steam??
Should that work?
Will the charcoal get the oxygen from the steamed water and burn, or will the red hot steel be effected by the oxygen like try to rust? I am thinking it will be so hot the water will have no effect on the steel. Hot enough steel and fine enough spray, the water may even steam away before hitting the steel anyway. I may actually try this later.
Also thanks for the Gasifier info, I think that's what it's often called. I am working on one of those also. I have many ideas for it, glad to hear they were also pulled on trailers sometimes, most of what I have heard of them they were normally mounted on the car in other places I think. I have plans (ideas of my own) to build a trailer unit, run the feed pipe to the towing vehicle through the trailer toung and connect securly with a good flexable hose to an exhaust pipe under the vehicle running to the forward engine. This will make the unit easy to connect to different vehicles as needed instead of building of unit for each. Of course I still have to make each vehicle work off it. But I figure if I actually like it and use it all the time, then two trailers, one for wife, one for me, will run unlimited vehicles. That will end all our normal gasoline needs in this family and save tons of money for us as well as being better for the enviroment, and scrap wood is very cheap right now for me, even free from a couple places, all I want.
I might still need gasoline for over a 100 mile trip, but that would be using a different vehicle too.
My plan is also to make it just look like a normal trailer, maybe like enclosed with airconditioning except instead of actually being an airconditioner that would be part of the gas cooling system and ventalation. Kinda like always towing a small popup camper trailer or larger race car trailer everywhere I go, and just just people wonder why