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@jameshargrave8461

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight this is awesome, storing it would be amazing to and the wood gas could be used to supplement homes burning natural gas for heat

@dots5641

6 жыл бұрын

A guy named Mr. Teslonian perfected this process and even ran a car off of wood gas! go check him out!

@tenlittleindians

6 жыл бұрын

Teslonian tried a chain saw off wood gas but I never figured out how it would work without oil injection since it was a two stroke. A more practical application would be a wood powered bicycle! Chinese made four stroke bicycle engine conversion kits are cheap. Convert it to wood gas and see how many miles to the stick you can get! They sold a steam engine bike motor castings set called the Vesuvius, named after the volcano. Look for a picture of one of those to see how they fit a motor and boiler onto a bicycle and you will quickly see your burner is about the size of the boiler they used. That's a parade piece every small town needs; the guy with the wood powered bike!

@micahk.541

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight make a motor that runs off of that gas to power a fan for the stove to make it burn hotter

@Exodus26.13Pi

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight Global warming? As made by man is a hoax for more big government control friend. Remember WTC 7?

You are such a honest and correct youtuber who creates amazing educational content! No need for clickbait or overexited camera acting! Great channel and great role model for mine!

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@floppydisk4500

6 жыл бұрын

He also has a bird that trusts him, so I know I can too.

@gramursowanfaborden5820

6 жыл бұрын

a wholesome dude who actually makes interesting and novel things? i don't know what planet we're living on but i want to stay here.

@justinw1765

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I enjoy his laid back and sincere style.

@gramursowanfaborden5820

6 жыл бұрын

the king of random is dying because it was clickbaity shite to begin with. other channels like this, basically videos about making stuff vaguely related to practical applications of science, are booming. Cody's Lab, Beyond The Press, AvE, etc.

When you want to show the inside of something without risking your lens, try using a mirror :^)

You are the only channel where I watch the ads - to see your bird.

The arrangement is ingenious, perhaps the simplest most elegant feed and clearing design I have ever seen. Most designs require disassembly or a door to remove the char. Heat distortion in designs using a door and resulting inefficient sealing is problematic. Feeding the char directly into the burn chamber while operating reduces the heating cycle to a minimal duration, immediately igniting the char to contribute to the cycle, and wastes very little fuel in the process. In addition the tar drains into the burn chamber providing additional fuel and potentially reducing undesirable waste byproducts. The rocket stove design is perhaps the most efficient and lends itself well for the application. There are a couple of improvements that could be made. One improvement might be a grate or screen for the ash to fall through to a lower chamber for easy removal. Most designs use a shaker to facilitate ash removal. If the combustion is hot enough and the grate designed with sufficient space white ash passes without the need for mechanical assistance. I suspect the flame is being retarded by the envelope of fumes and smoke from the lower chamber depriving the tube of oxygen. Bending the tube to position the burn away from the top of the burn chamber would solve the problem. Another improvement would be a carbeurator similar to ones found on propane stoves to suck additional air into the stream. I've built a couple of gassifiers that were relatively successful but your design provides significant improvements that overcome inherent detrimental characteristics. I think I'll borrow your basic design and build another one with the above improvements . Thanks.

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

Really great ideas. Especially for clearing the ash.

If you slightly krimp the end of the biofule exhaust it might sustain the flame longer

@greenthizzle4

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Anderson it needs oxygen, crimping it won't do much I don't think.. he needs a breather hole in the pipe like a blowtorch nozzle

@pauljs75

6 жыл бұрын

A good percentage of that is steam, and that's likely what is blowing the fire out. Needs to bubble through a water tank to condense/separate it out, the remaining gas can then be collected and should burn much better.

@kiyoponnn

4 жыл бұрын

All crimping will is increase the presssure of the gas

@mcmh9523

3 жыл бұрын

Your profile pic...

@fxphenix5162

3 жыл бұрын

Can you please explain why that is Jonathan, plz, thanks

You could put a bubbler on the end of the gas outlet so it’d clean it more effectively, and a valve so you could monitor its output

Take the wood gas and filter it and store it for later use. Find a way to separate out its liquid components by having a drain tube at the bottom for the wood oil to condense into. Now distill it with the same heat coming from the charcoal. If you are using pine wood you will wind up with rosin which has many uses for paints and finishes and the liquid distilled from the wood oil is turpentine which runs perfectly fine in diesel engines a 100% straight substitute. The liquid from the wood gas that can settled out is a low grade gasoline or a white gasoline similar to orange oil from orange peels. The process is very green but isn't cost effective for today's market but is a great experiment and a great option for those with lots of land with pines who love to play and tinker in self sustainability a small scale. Keep up the great work.

@jeffmccrea9347

Жыл бұрын

I had a few suggestions as follows: @jeffmccrea9347 0 seconds ago Just a thought. If you want to keep your smoke stack burning, try drilling some SMALL holes at an upward angle near the top end to carburate air into the gas stream like is done in a natural gas stove, heater ect. Start with a couple of small holes at first then try it out. You don't want the mixture too lean to burn. If necessary, drill more holes, ONE AT A TIME until you get satisfactory results. Another thought. Take a coil of copper tubing in an upright position and connect it to your stack with a smooth 180 degree curve. This will condense your tar etc. out of the gas and clean it up some. It will work like a moonshine still. It has to be upright so the tar doesn't collect at the bottom of a horizontal coil and clog the system. If you're really feeling froggy, acquire a used, working automotive A/C compressor. Connect it with a belt to an AC motor or small gas engine and see if you can pump / compress your wood gas into something like a propane tank for later use. Just be sure there is still oil in the compressor if you get it from a questionable source like a junk yard. Without oil, just like an engine, it will seize during operation. You will need a stout 12 VDC source like a battery or charger with at least a 10 or 15 amp output to energize the electric clutch for proper operation. I wouldn't advise bolting the clutch as you can knock it off balance causing major vibration problems. I don't know if a compressor from a refrigerator would work but if you have one laying around, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. In either case, the compressor MUST remain upright at ALL times so as to not drain the oil out of it. The only hitches I can think of with using a compressor is: 1) Designing or acquiring a moisture trap like the one's used on air compressors or diesel fuel lines to keep water, or in your case, tar out of the system. 2) Your gasifier will need to be air tight and not just depend on a heavy socket for a seal. With a compressor drawing a vacuum on your gas chamber, it will suck more air than gas without a good seal. Good luck with your endeavors. Jeff M.

I believe in ww2 Germany (due to lack of oil) began to experiment with alternative fuel sources. Wood gas was one of them (you might have mentioned this already)

I wonder. Has anyone ever tried doing this using heat from something like a big magnifiying glass? i seen them light pieces of wood on fire so i bet its more than hot enough. Than way you get charcoal and wood gass without burning any wood in the process :) Obviously sun is not something we have 24/7 but even if you can use it 35% of the days in a year that is still a 35% increase in efficency which is huge.

@sheikhraeikhwan2005

3 жыл бұрын

my thought too...will we get the same result if only we heat it without burn it with fire?

@laurenceperkins7468

3 жыл бұрын

It's called a "solar furnace" and if you have space to build a big enough one you can set things like steel on fire... Only limitations really are that you can't heat anything hotter than the surface temperature of the sun, and you only get an average of around 2HP per square foot of collector depending on lattitude and weather.

You should bubble the gas through a longish column of water (maybe like .5-1m tall). That should condsense all or most of the tar youre getting from the wood.

@ECM398

6 жыл бұрын

a mega bong

@revimfadli4666

5 жыл бұрын

What about a spiral tube filled with water?

@NM-wd7kx

5 жыл бұрын

@@revimfadli4666 that should work too, though you could risk clogging the narrower bore

@revimfadli4666

5 жыл бұрын

@@NM-wd7kx or use a wider tube filled with a screw-shaped spiral made out of a plate or similar

flair the end of the exit pipe if you want a sustainable flame. fire has a set speed it can move, so you need to slow the gasses.

Love this project! You can even use the charcoal to make a carbon filter to clean up the gas before storage.

I’d like to see you make a filtration system, and a production system large enough to run a small engine.

@The2x4

2 жыл бұрын

Go check out Colin Furze. He built one on his lawnmower, and can actually mow his lawn with it.

I loved to see the evolution of your project and how you redesigned the whole thing so efficiently!! Learned so many things. Great video as always! Cheers from Italy

Your videos are inspiring and SOLID. Thank you for being a great teacher!

I love your bird at the end

I've been working on my own design that addresses these same issues ever since the last video... and of course you not only beat me to it but come up with a much more elegant and simple method.

Hey NightHawkInLight did you know that you can also collect gasoline or crude oil if you distill or condense and collect the ”tar”... Hope the info helps if you need any references look up biocrude or documentaries about turning plastic into gasoline

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

I've tried converting plastic before but did not get it hot enough. That might be a really good thing to try again with this setup. Thanks for the ideas

@discardedink5994

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight. yeah man, no problem. im glad i could help. Nice project & Stay Awesome bro ✌👍🔥

@discardedink5994

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight ... you know in theory you could make a pyrolysis Distillery with a series of condensers and collection tanks running on methane gas from a fecal matter biogas reactor and literally be self-sufficient for electricity harvesting gasoline and syngas from garbage cans and all the while also having a great mass of methane to boot hahah I don't know if this is ingenious or just genius but I love this idea 😂

@luciusirving5926

5 жыл бұрын

@@discardedink5994 Speaking of biogas, I will need to move to a warm countryside to build the biodigester.

@discountovid8325

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nighthawkinlight plasma arc waste disposal produces syngas and slag as the product. From what I understand it will break down anything short of nuclear waste. generator, plasma cutter, likely a gasometer feeding syngas back to the generator once the process is started. And kiln brick or vermiculite.

Hey Ben, thanks for the continuing to put out the amazing videos. I love the way you take older technologies and show people how they still can be used. I don't have any deep insight into how to improve the design but instead just a word of encouragement. I'll always tune in for your videos. Thanks

How to get people to actually watch your sponsor shoutouts: cute birds

That bird made me watch through the sponsor ad. You should make something for your bird, i would enjoy watching it.

That is a pretty sweet set up you have there looks very efficient to me.

Excellent and well-thought out design - I was very happy to see it work the way you envisioned! Another excellent video, thank you!!

hey, I found a way you can make it more efficient. If you also want to keep the charcoal, what you could do is use this design and put the fire above the charcoal outlet. by this the charcoal will collect under a platform on which the fire is burning. The downside of this is probably that you will need to keep adding fuel.

@Gun4Freedom

6 жыл бұрын

You would need to make the charcoal collector mostly air tight, and likely want to prefill it with co2 or some other inert gas, as when the charcoal gets dumped while hot, it will immediately ignite if exposed to oxygen. It could certainly be done though. If you ran the gasifier vessel through a hole in the bottom of the rocket stove, into a steel drum underneath, with a short length to allow it to be raised and still maintain a seal while the charcoal gets dumped, that would work. You could also route some of the stove exhaust into the drum, with a small pump and valve on the top, to flush oxygen out of it, which you could verify with an oxygen sensor from a cheap obd2 car exhaust. You could route the sensor to a multimeter, or if you wanted to be fancy, a raspberry pi or old cell phone would do, as long as you could code the input, or adapt some other app to display the readout.

@rltcgf

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! These were some aspects I didnt think through yet. If I can find the resources, I might try various of the possibilities on collecting the charcoal and the gas. I'll mention it if I have an update.

@NinoJoel

6 жыл бұрын

That's a nice idea... Especially if you could use the tar

Beautifully simple design. Nice one !

I think your socket should be ok as long as it didnt get above a purple color. That dark gold/bronze color means it got to about 500F which is generally lower than the tempering temp of most tool steels.

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt craftsman actually uses tool steel for sockets anyway. Probably just some middle of the road carbon steel. I'm sure it's fine

Thats...one way of keeping people watching til the end. God that parrot is adorable!

Wow, very cleverI I was pretty skeptical when you first started talking about your design (wishful thinking I said) but as usual you prove yourself much smarter than me! How easy or possible is it to compress/store wood gas?

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

It's usually very easy to pressurize it because it comes out of the reaction vessel at pressure. But with this design I don't know if that will be the case with the ends only lightly sealed. There are other methods I will be making a video about

@Dordien

6 жыл бұрын

Your videos made me interested in the concept of making wood gas and charcoal and it's very interesting! And I was thinking about storing the gas since your last vide with the water tank with a valve. I think you'd need to purify the output as much as possible to be able to pressurize it with like a compressor as to not to clog it with solids that are suspended in the smoke. So I guess a long or a double water bubbler, maybe some wood chips first and charcoal filter at the very end?

Can you make a video on how to store it for later use? edit; Storing the woodgas, not the stove🙂

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I'm planning on it.

@akashmukherjee2405

5 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight and today he has done it....

@shaunemicheal7362

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps use an old tire tube? Add a small copper pipe with a valve after removing the Schrader valve from the valve stem. You could even use the inner tube to slightly pressurize the gases.

You're the man 😎👍

@slink2070

6 жыл бұрын

The King of Random omg no u

@hayesjohnson2027

6 жыл бұрын

Every comment was ❤️ until ur comment 🤔😁

@greenthizzle4

6 жыл бұрын

here to steal ideas?

@SKATEBAIT47

6 жыл бұрын

The King of Random My man Grant finna beat the case in court 💯💯💯 fuck the feds

@greenthizzle4

6 жыл бұрын

Head Like A Fucking Orange haha he gonna beat his meat in jail.. no jk, and I agree fuck em.

Nice vid dude. Your vids often trigger an 'oh i *need* that in my life', n set me a building. Often from whats in reach. Plasma coil launcher was my favourite. This has done a similar thing. Love the design, well executed vid, and something im sorta playing with similar things. Thanks man, keep it up

Thank you NightHawkInLight, Very cool!

Crap, i want a bird now :P

You should put a bubblier filter and a activated carbon filter to make the wood gas much more pure. So, you can run an engine or sustain a flame a lot better

I agree with most of the comments you are good at this. Don't stop

Great video! Mr Teslonian is into this stuff.

you should try powering a small engine with it

you need to add a water filter to the smoke. Not only will the gas be more pure for storage and use, but it will stay burning if you light the exiting gas.

I love seeing you revisit an old project now that you have more experience and knowledge and do it better. Awesome to see!

I've really enjoyed watching your series on this subject. This is really going to come in handy when commercial fuel becomes to expensive to be practical.

If you could somehow use a big parabolic mirror or a big lens in stead of a fire to heat the reactor it would be a much more fuel efficient way to make the wood gas

Sick vape

@jackh1577

6 жыл бұрын

Smoke trees everyday

@TheVigilantStewards

4 жыл бұрын

lol!!!!!!

To me, it looks like the straight pipe in the top is putting the flame directly in the exhaust of the chimney. I bet if you bent the fuel line out into fresh air you would have no problem getting the fuel to stay lit.

Great video, as always. I’ve been subscribed to your channel ever since I saw your ‘how to make a paper crossbow’ video a few years ago, and your videos and content have only gotten better. I look forward to seeing what you do in your next video, hopefully it’s about how to actually use the wood gas instead of just venting it off.

Love your videos u have taught me a lot

Ben, do you think you could power a generator with wood gas in a pinch? I've read a comment under my video on tar distellery that you could...

@Nighthawkinlight

4 жыл бұрын

I tried running an engine in another video and it sort of worked, but it's harder than you would think. Normal carburetors aren't made to work with non liquid fuels. The channel MrTeslonian has had much more success than I have. I believe he has a truck that runs on woodgas, and several other small engines.

@Advoko

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nighthawkinlight Thank you for the link. Yes, that was my thought exactly: "...it's harder than you would think"... Just watched the video! Fascinating

@El-Burrito

2 жыл бұрын

There used to be a reality TV show called "The Colony" where they did just that. Some TV-magic may have been invovled though but it seems doable.

Nice to see another video on this topic

Awesome build, may have to use a design like this when I teach bio fuel class again this fall. Such a easy build that I think can really easily show students how to build and produce bio-gas fast and cheep. Love your projects, just had a student wanting to make an potato cannon. Sent him to you videos for the air valve that you produced in you air cannon video. Keep the good ideas coming.

I would like to see someone figure out a way to store the wood gas so that you don’t need to run a fire whenever you’re using the equipment that runs on wood gas (car, chainsaw, etc.)

@polyjohn3425

6 жыл бұрын

It's basically just a mix of hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. Run it through a longer pipe to let it cool and condense the tar/creosote out of it, and then it can be stored like any other flammable gas. You could even run a compressor off a stirling engine using the heat of the fire.

I love the attention to your carbon footprint, people like you are going to lead us to a better future for our children, thank you.

I've been involved with high efficient cookstove projects overseas a number of times and seen a lot of different ways to use woodgas for cooking applications. I find your approach to making woodgas and biochar fascinating! Keep up the good content and projects. I'll be doing a few of my own biomass cookstove videos soon on my channel. It'll be for cooking mostly, but similar.

I love how you put effort into creating quality content and not spam your channel. That design is genius. Nice job!

You should attempt to make a simple engine powered by the wood gas, and then from there attempt a bigger, better engine, and then attempt to make a small cart

that bird is sooooo cute! Good video!

Excellent video as always! Inspiring and informative. Keep 'em coming please!

I'd really love to try this some time! Wood gasification is a fascinating process, and a much more direct way of extracting useful energy than say a steam boiler.

Why not just make multiple interchangeable cans for your prior design? Also, you are correct in saying that the charcoal is useful, for many things. So, too, is the tar. Best to make a grate a bit up from the bottoms of your replacement cans so this may be harvested as well. Lastly, if you run your outlet pipe into some water in a sealed tank with an extraction hose at the top, the resulting bubbles of gas will be scrubbed of the smoke soot. The gas can be harvested from above the water in the sealed container and then compressed and pumped into a welding tank to about 2000psi for later use. Remember, if you can use three by-products from the single activity then you are truly economical.

You could use it to Produce and distill sodium or potassium.

Such a neat design, what I like is your reaction when it produced gas instantly, seeing you getting excited was really fun.

Man, I gotta say this, Ive been following your work for a while now, and you are truly an impressive human being.

Need to insulate the outer stove but still great concept. 😎👍

Have you tried condensing the gas into a liquid state?

nice trick with the bird to make people watch your ad at the end

Your Videos inspire me everytime i see them. i love it to see your work and what amount of lifeblood you dedicate to it.

Thats a nice parrot

I see that this design is much more practical to use, but what about airtightness? Aren't you loosing woodgas and pressure through lower and upper parts of your reaction vessel? What about bubbling camera , to clear out, cool down, and collect produced gas? How about creating some kind of blowtorch on this fuel, and then moving to small (then bigger) engine ? Great video, though!

Amazing!!! You simplified it so much!!! Not much welding compared to all other gasifiers! Frickin brilliant!!

Nice man, ive been wanting to make one of these for a while now

now all you need to do is build a system whereby the pressure build up of the gas capture can be used to automatically re-fuel the system with pistons

Is wood gas once collected and possibly pressurised, efficient enough to power portable generators or better for slow burning lamps like the olde gas lamps of yore?

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

It can power gas engines

@mathewpoole3589

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight Well I'll be damned. I use to spend a lot of time hiking through the Australian bush for days from point to point. My aim was to always travel light with everything I carried having more then one use with minimal waste. This has given me a few ideas of how to setup a duel functioning stove system. That could be used for water purification, fuel gathering (charcoal) and cooking in a more controlled manner. The gas production has me thinking tho, I'll have to look into a way to collect it for the RV trips to lessen the reliance on the solar panels on the poor weather days. Well done champ

@PixlRainbow

6 жыл бұрын

Mathew Poole do be warned, although the wood gas can power engines, it cannot be reliably stored and pressurized as it is unstable and prone to explosion due to contaminants (e.g. oxygen inside your container) Additionally, some filtering may be required to make sure the wood gas does not carbonize your piston heads

@mathewpoole3589

6 жыл бұрын

Pixl Rainbow I gathered it wouldn't be "clean" of contaminants and might require an additional gas of sorts for stable pressurization hence why I was wondering if best suited for lighting lamps over power generation. The main thing I took from this is a system for a controlled small stove that can create its own fuel source without being an open fire. Good for fire hazard regions. With the wood gas collection being an after thought to substitute batteries for lamps and if possible power generation.

Thank you very much for the content you are providing to us, I personally learned a lot of thing watching your videos. Your projects are just beautiful as well as your videos, keep it up ;)

I love the honest reaction when it started producing wood gas again

Make it power a power tool like a saw or drill. That would be a very cool 'off the grid' ideas

I really enjoy your projects! Have you seen the FEMA plans for wood gas powered vehicles? They have interesting notions for continuous feed.

Everyone needs one of these. Especially off the grid folks. This is phenomenal stuff. I really wanna have a setup where I can try all of this. Thanks for the uploads

I love wayching such innovative stuffs, keep up the good work 😊

You should make a video on storage in a vessel and how to pressurize the gas.

@felderup

6 жыл бұрын

there's one dude on youtube that runs the gas through a container of water then into a very large plastic bag, he doesn't burn the wood, he heats it on a stove in a metal container.

Do you think if you had some sort of nozzle like a propane burner or Bunsen burner you could sustain a flame longer?

I'm really excited about this! by tweaking the production with some processes, the gas could be cleaned, stored or even compressed into making it a viable and durable fuel. I think this might be taking a possible step into the future, or at least give us some knowhow for it. Awesome job!

Another great video - greetings from southern Germany 🇩🇪 I’m excited to see what you’ll do with the produced wood gas!

it could be interesting to link the output to a spiral of copper tubing in nitrogen like did Cody to liquefy the gas and store it. Sorry for bad english

@JustOneAsbesto

6 жыл бұрын

You did better than most native English speakers in KZread comments.

@greenthizzle4

6 жыл бұрын

JustOneAsbesto haha yeah close to flawless, it's funny how many non native English speakers think they write bad English when its fine

@flamby357

6 жыл бұрын

JustOneAsbesto thank's lol

Now you have to make that gas do some kind work.

We need more videos on wood gas! Your style of gasifier is refreshing and easy to follow

i love the genuine excitement in this video!

Hey NightHawkinLight, could you perhaps do a video where you use the wood gas itself for a project?

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd certainly like to!

Can you condense the wood vapors into a combustible liquid?

@mikeguitar9769

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is why methanol is called "wood alcohol". It's also how turpentine is made from pine.

@llaneelyort5599

5 жыл бұрын

tar + stick = torch

@TheVigilantStewards

4 жыл бұрын

I had also wondered that

@satriyodibyos1930

4 жыл бұрын

I think it will has more value if you use it as liquid smoke

THANK YOU!! the way you so honestly, and so matter of fact, show that inventing and fabricating take a certain amount of trial and error. as well as not always successful on first attempt. very important aspect of learning.

Very cool. I was thinking about doing one of these for years. I'm thinking of trying to use some old large wood drill bits as an auger in and out of combustion chamber. Pellets, sawdust and wood chips would feed it.

You could make it faster if you tack welded a long handle onto the pipe. You wouldn't even need the pliers! I'm curious how much larger you could make a system like this. Size plays a big role in the overall efficiency of this process.

@shonaoneill5151

6 жыл бұрын

Steven Boelke "size plays a big role in overall efficiency"......yeah, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about! Scaled up to "exactly" twice the size it would not make it any more efficient lol. It would use twice the amount of fuel to make twice the amount of gas and byproduct. Your physics classes were money well spent huh pffffft lol

It would be cool to see you store the gas and then later use it to run a generator to produce electricity.

How how I not seen all your bio-fuel videos?! Amazing channel overall!

I believe the reason its not burning continuously at the moment is the high amount of water vapor in the gas. If you let the gas flow in a water container the water vapor will most likely condense and get filtered out, so you'd have a much better gas quality (maybe check chemistry tools for water based filters, the idea is quite simple but not my field of expertise). Might be worth a try, its easy to realize and could improve the quality a lot (should also filter fine dust particles etc.). Regardless I really like the improvement since your last attempt, keep it up!

Do you think it could power a generator...?

@chosena91

6 жыл бұрын

just need to clean it properly unrefined gas burns poorly(water content) and is also full of tar and crap so its gonna ruin your engine nice and proper and fast

@mikeguitar9769

6 жыл бұрын

This is extremely high in tar. I don't know if it is practical to filter all that tar out. It's more common to use a downdraft gasifier since these have better tar-cracking ability, and is perhaps the best gasifier design for low tar. Even with these, there are multiple filter stages before fueling an engine. A much easier way is to gasify char (charcoal) since there is much less tar. He could burn the tar-gas as a heat source to make charcoal, and then gasify the charcoal to power an engine.

@sebastianramadan8393

6 жыл бұрын

Use an external combustion engine as opposed to internal combustion... don't bother refining the gas, just run the engine (presumably a steam engine, like the ones they used to stock up constantly in trains of the old days) from the charcoal and let the gas burn with the charcoal. The combustion occurs outside of the engine, so all of the soot and filth won't clog the engine mechanics... Modern day external combustion engines such as stirling engines have come a long way.

@mikeguitar9769

6 жыл бұрын

I've studied both. Both ways have their challenges. There's usually a preference for the internal combustion route because the engines are more available and/or less expensive, and they are easier and more forgiving to work with than Stirling engines, and easier and safer to make more efficient than steam engines.

I have seen people power cars and generators with wood gas. Do you think you could make a video on powering generator?

@Nighthawkinlight

6 жыл бұрын

I'd really like to do that in the future if I can.

@gunlimitedammo3888

6 жыл бұрын

NightHawkInLight Thanks. I'm looking forward to it.

@kingvalren4991

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for replying! One other question do you think you will sell merch soon?

@rich1051414

6 жыл бұрын

The difficult part is engineering an alternative to the carburetor to mix air with the wood gas as liquid carburetors don't work.

@sebastianramadan8393

6 жыл бұрын

You've seen people power cars and generators from methane? Woooooooooow... that's amazing! lol

Hey could you sometimes show us some ways to use the wood gas effectivly? While i would love to build this kind of construct i would be way better to have a certain use to it.

@SWhite-hp5xq

6 жыл бұрын

^^^ This!

Well done!! What a nifty design!

Collection and usage of wood gas is needed.

@mikeguitar9769

6 жыл бұрын

Easier to store it as wood and make the gas when you need it because I think the CO converts to coke at lower temperatures. 2 CO --> C + CO2

@gmgunner

6 жыл бұрын

Uhhmmm, I would like to look into that.

You should see if you can get a small generator to run.

Awesome video! I have wanted to build one of these out of an old propane tank.