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Howdee.... Ben has come up with a really cool idea, having usergroups around the country to develop the Victory platform to a higher level. These usergroups have to be highly local, since gasification is a hands-on experience. So I thought it would be a nice bonus to know where everyone is, so that we can network easier. I found a usermap service, and setup a map for us to use.
There is a spot for you to add a note. Maybe if we all add the name of our area usergroup? May hav
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I used the can thing for a while and learned alot. Mostly that it can blow up. I used paint cans just in case of a pressure problem, then the top will blow off before it gets toooooo far out of control. and by the way it did....I am putting a 2" check valve turned backwards on my system to release pressure just in case positive pressure happens.
When you get ready for a welder I would be glad to recommend one if you need help. I have several and have welded with several others both large and small.
I am almost finished with a gasifier that I hope is not a large smoke machine. I hope to produce enough gas to run a v8 and turn a geneator.. we shall see. I have several other ideas to use the gas for but first I have to get it working correctly.
thanks to answer so quickly.
I was not criticising the gasifier but just asking if it would not be better to run a rotary engine instead of an Otto engine.
Because there is less part to move inside.
So I would think that the syngas would be more efficient with a rotary engine.
The problem that my Granddad was that he was delivering ice block in different food shop and I think he was using Charcoal not wood , which i think was of a lower grade.
marc
i have look on the article by FAO that you suggested to read on the 29/5/10, i was looking on the different tests that they carry out and it seems to me that the different problems they had did not lye with the gas or with the product they were using but more with the engine they use. My Granddad use one during the second World War and for what i recollect from what he was saying, he had very hard time to run is truck, it was dirty, times consuming and the loss of power was huge, he did not like the "gazobois" ( this is the name given by the French for gasifier). Maybe some body should design a engine specially for wood-gas. the like of rotary engine with not so many part to move, more simple.
i know you going to say that these engine that what we used today are the most ready available and cheap, but maybe just maybe they are not build for wood-gas, you would think that since the first development of the gasifier that some car company would have try to build one.
kind regards
marc