I have a 5 kw gasoline powered generator (Tecumseh 10 hp) that I'm
planning
on trying to run from wood gas. It it doesn't ruin the engine (hard to
tell
with a Tecumseh) then I'll try running it on a Honda engine.
You've probably already seen these sites, but here they are anyway:
http://www.gengas.nu/byggbes/index.shtml
http://mitglied.lycos.de/cturare/gas.htm
http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1981_September_October/Wood_Gas_Updat
e
http://www.windward.org/notes/notes63/wal63_b.htm
http://highforest.tripod.com/woodgas/woodgas.html
http://www.woodgas.com/
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/producer/
http://www.green-trust.org/woodgas.htm
http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/T0512E/T0512e0x.h
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One source I read said that the internal combustion engine was originally
designed and built to run with wood gas. As you probably know they were
used extensively in Europe during WWII so it must work pretty well.
Recent
studies in undeveloped countries have shown wood gas for production of
electricity to be cost effective. The one thing that really bothers me is
that during WWII if there was no oil available to make gasoline how did
they
change the oil in their engines? I can find no mention of it.
I'm also considering using wood gas for heating and cooking, either
directly
or indirectly. I have a substantial grove of oak trees plus a lot of
scrap
wood chips leftover from the work I do.
Right now my biggest obstacle is finding junk to build it out of. There
don't seem to any scrap metal yards around where I live. I was thinking
of
using two 30 gallon steel drums to build a gasifier to run a 10 hp
electric
generator. Also I will need to learn how to weld.
