I work at a molding shop. All the wood goes through a gang rip saw before it gets to the molder. We probably have well over a ton of scraps each week. If I did this, I'd never have to pay for gas again. I could probably power my house on that wood.
That right old man stick it to the oil companies face. I admire what you've done and it looks like a nice clean set up compared to others that I've seen.
@Nigel Cam : Perhaps a small percentage of the population can use this system. Another percentage can use solar power to charge their car batteries. Another percentage can use wind power. Another percentage can use sugar converted to ethanol.
@Nigel Cam : 8% is what kind of energy? I checked a random website. This one is about wind power. www.sciencedaily.com/terms/wind_power.htm "At the end of 2006, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 73.9 gigawatts; although it currently produces just over 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 20% of electricity use in Denmark, 9% in Spain, and 7% in Germany.Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006." "Worse, fracturing the sources does not allow for economies of scale in infrastructure." ==I don't know much about the economics behind it but I imagine it goes something like this: 1. The government wants to implement some form of technology. 2. They don't have their own engineers so they call upon various private companies to submit their proposals. 3. The government picks the cheapest one. 4. When they implement the technology in question, there will be a need for support. Someone has to maintain, replace parts, etc. 1. Another alternative is that the government owns the power company and hires their own engineers. 2. This would allow them to own all patents, build their own companies for making parts. This would probably be cheaper than the previous steps 1 to 4 I listed. In any case, there is no choice. Petrol and coal won't last forever.
@Dane Aulabaugh I don’t know where you are getting your information from. Solar panels are not made from fiber glass. They are made of nearly pure silicon. There are 2 types. There is the single crystal type and polycrystalline type. You don’t need petrol. An electric arc furnace is used to convert SiO2 to Si and SiC. The source of power is electricity which could come from hydro or anything else. Fusion power is not ready yet. Petrol and coal are finite because nature is not producing any new sources or at least not at a fast enough rate. That’s what finite means. Solar, hydro, wind are very large sources. There is so much joules there. Way more than humans can use and it keeps on coming.
Got to love Wayne Keith. Been following him for a bit and learned a lot. I haven't done much lately but plan to restart my project soon and post more videos. Thanks for posting this, it helps with motivation.
NOPE. The carbon will eventually all return to form of CO2. May be too slow for you to see but it will happen inexorably. Why worry though? Global warming is a scam.
Brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing! The world needs people like you so desperately! A modification to my truck is certainly somewhere in the near future.
Cool 🔥 definitely see how it could be useful for farmers and ranchers to have an alternative fuel source in the event of scarcity due to blockades or war
Now I understand the desire or even the "need!" for some people to have to have plans to be able to build anything, but for what it's worth, I watched the video, listened to him explain how it works, what each component does, how it's routed, and what a lot of it is made out of. I also watched the video and can clearly see the size and estimate lengths of almost everything taken from the scale of a common pickup truck, for the bits he didn't call out size for. Drums explain themselves as they only come on a handful of sizes. I am not being sarcastic, and I apologize to anyone if it comes off this way, I did not mean for that. I however AM encouraging people to do a little work for themselves, and discover some improvements they can make along the way as well as learn so much more. This is NOT rocket science it's operated on the very basic principles of thermodynamics. Now, if you are not that handy, and need to have the plans, if you absolutely must, I would be willing to help draft up some with materials, to get you very close to what he has on his rig, including a better pic chip computer controlled automatic fuel controller to keep your mixture dead on and the stock computer happy, and eliminate all the manual valves. The manual valves are very easy to operate and make though, and for the most part they would still be there, and could be make to have bypass manual control built in in the event of an electronic failure. However if a nuke is detonated kiss all those electronic anythings goodbye anyways LOL, it'd be se how long we can survive in our underground fallout shelters till we starve :p Cheers my friends, IC.
My god, this is so elegant and beautiful. I mill lumber and cut down a lot of trees. The ugly and small wood becomes firewood. Then there are chips for the garden but they compost very slowly. To be able to burn the FREE debris remainder to make gas to run a generator to charge a bank of batteries for free electricity and then have biochar left over for the garden soil is like a miracle! I MUST do this!!! No waste stream whatsoever!!! It does not get more elegant than that!!@!
@marias man Yeah, It's a beautiful time to be alive! I was thinking also of using excess energy to pump water uphill to a very large storage tank and then either use it to irrigate or run a micro-hydro turbine to recover the electricity at a later time. So, I'll see your heat exchanger and raise you a gravity battery! LoL..
@@3Sphere youll be exerting more energy pumping it up hill then gaining when you drain it down hill. But nice idea. For your wood ship issue. If you dont end up using gasification. Grow some mushrooms. For one it treats depression and anxiety if you grow the right ones. But two it eats the wood chips faster than anything else and they are worth a ton as well.
i like the idea, i am doing things a little different, i am using compressed natural gas on my vehicle and intend to build a biodigester to make some of my own then compress it into the cylinders for later use, keep prepping man, ur doing good things and teaching us all that we can be independent.
I been gasifying wood and animal waste and taking out the oils and running the oils into a stainless tube with aluminum the heat of the fire makes the trapped oils become gas and then becomes gasoline and diesel and another burnable gas which is methanol GREAT VID
excellent video and information. This info must be spread to many. My wind turbine shop is small, and off grid. for the heavier electrical tool, I need to run the generator. From what i have gathered around several videos, creating the wood gas is easy. It's the filtering that makes the best difference. The temp, cooling for dew temps, and the final extraction of the rest of the moisture means the difference of tar, and a dry efficient burn that has no tar buildup. That and regular cleaning of the radiator, or heat exchange system. That pretty much means a nice long travel through decent diameter pipes, and dryers. I'm betting that air filters have to be changed often as well. I still have questions like, " how big of a system do i need to run my 10KW genny for welding all day? ". Thanks very much. MUDDy
muddymuddymuddmann Believe It or Not? There is a document in FEMA that you can download it's a PDF about 90 some pages and it shows you how to build a simple downdraft gasifier out of commonly available materials. In there is a special chart that shows you diameters of your burn chamber for certain size displacement engines. I bet you didn't think there was anything the government did that was good right? Apparently, the professor at UC Davis made the tractor run off Woodsmoke.
Check out www.woodgasifierplans.com he has pretty in depth manual on building a high grade gasifier. Currently I seen today he is offering the book for free, it's usually 30-40 bucks. This fella Wayne even has a review in the book.
This is excellent. I'm a big fan of alternative energy - especially if it cuts out the big corporations from the picture. I'll be building and installing a solar water heater this summer. Would love to run the car on biofuel, too. Well done, Wayne.
Hello noelsingletary, Hey thanks for the post. I agree with you on most of the items, I could use a lot more education. You characterize the steel pretty good; actually at about at about 1400 degrees the steel will start scaling. If we bring the temperatures on up to apx 1800 degrees this is when the scales will be shedding. At about 2200 degrees would be where I would think the mild steel would start to melt. If we happen to have wrought we can go some higher. Thanks Wayne
I wonder how much efficiency loss there would be using a heat exchanger hooked to the air conditioner compressor. This could cool the gass much colder to get more water out using much smaller parts.
that awesome , I'm looking at the water vacume thing at the moment , just a sealed hard container with one hose going to the vacume with it half full of water , have you seen the vapour come off it under vacume interesting now I just got to see if its flammable , I wonder if your wood fire would have enough vacume to suck it off and burn it
I'm very interested in building a gasifier for my truck. my big question is how do I get around the computer controls on the modern truck to make it work?
Excellent presentation! I have just started investigating this concept and was wondering if using charcoal would be more efficient or would it be the same? I am not sure if the compactness of carrying charcoal vs a cord of wood in the truck would have an advantage not only by volume and weight but also by the BTU output. Best regards
What do you mean when the temperature gets down to the dew point? Besides the moisture in the wood some of that water is coming from the combustion itself you know carbon dioxide CO2 and water H20 are the products. Good idea to use the ashes as fertilizer no waste at all.
I have gone to some of the forums and they have a lot of information there on the gasifiers but I wanted to get your opinion on something. How deep and how big around does my hearth need to be to run a 8 cylinder Chevy 350 engine? Also, how do you clean out the ashes from your gasifier without taking it apart?
@@MalachiHealey Well yes, the masses were kept ignorant of the atrocities in the USSR, if they knew what the Germans knew, ALL of Europe would have mobilized against the Soviet State and smashed the international idea then and there and for good...Alas we see what 80 years of internationalists plans have done for Europe and Europeans
Hello Wayne, Thanks so much for your information on the Gasifier. I'm looking for information on rebuilding my chimney that my woodstove uses. i would like to reroute the exhaust into a line that could be used for Gasification. Would you know any one that has done this? Thanks again
Dumping ash can be done easy and as quick as a few seconds or as long as a few minutes. I will film and post the quick version. @ waynekeith01 Your internal dominions will depend on what design, FEMA, imbert, GEK, LaRosa, Keith ect. Some use the principals of superficial velocity to archive the pyrolysis distillation and others may chose different routes . The key is to maintain near metal melting temperatures in the core of the reactor.
I would like to see a good look at how your wood "chunker" works at about 1:18 into your video. I have a good guess but I would rather have a good idea. Thanks!
In relation to mknytb's question. Mr Keith mentions that the 3 main gasses are hydrogen carbon monoxide an methane all three are compressable. However you mention for home use, depending on where you live, there are all sorts of burocratic red tape to cut through. Is it worth the effort to compress.
Hey Wayne I was wondering if I could use my air conditioning in my chevy I have to condense the moisture from the syngas? I know it won't help with horse power but it will make the gasifier less bulky.I'm trying to design a low profile gasifier with 6 small burn chambers,run the truck on wood pellets and cool the gas with my AC.
What if you took this system and supplied a boiler with it? Maybe create a system like Doble had in his cars back in the 20's. Wood powered steam engine with 1000ft/lb of torque. You could create an ECU that would run it all for you. That would be the ultimate apocalypse vehicle. Include a wood chipper in line with the hopper, so you could just feed it dead fall. You could do the same and run a generator with it. I wonder if that would be more powerful than a gas engine running on wood gas.
I Like to see a video on how you made the breather air box with mixing values ... does anyone know if there someone that show how to construct a breather air box with electronic control
Very cool but it's too bad that it takes up space in the bed and blocks the rear view. I wonder if a small gas generator could fit under the hood with a smaller engine that's optimized to run on wood gas.
It wont be a 1:1 ratio of fuel and air, geting mixture right looks tricky, love the idea of free-ish fuel though, exhaust emmissions will be clean but the fire to make the gas may not be!
The only emission that is released is usable gas. The inly smoke released is the smoke that escaped while starting the fire. That smoke is basically harmless to the environment. More smoke is emitted every year in california. Than if every vehicle in the world was powered by a wood gas-fire right now
Can I compress wood gas? If so, can I set up home fueling system in to gas tank from this gasifier for CNG vehicle instead of producing the gas on the truck as you go? If this wood gas system runs over 200HP engine, it mean it can generate way over 100KW (as 10kW generator runs on 12-13hp engine) which can run 7-8 households, and exhaust the CO2 into green house in back yard. Can annoyingly fast growing bamboos produce wood gas like other wood? This wood gas seems to act just like natural gas, then if I build giant gasifier with reinforced concrete I can heat house, generate electricity and fuel car from wood? I can pack the gas in tank as I need and generate the gas as it runout, so I don't have to watch the fire all the time. This is amazing. Thank you very much for sharing! So.. Can I compress the wood gas and use it like CNG?
nobody tried to compress CO tho, the syn-gas contain some complex hydrocarbons that can be liquified and some fractions that can't (like methane). It's possible to optimize wood pyrolysis to get more oil fraction than gas and char fractions.
@@zazugee there is a guy on RU-vid who has done it (look up compressing wood gas) the danger is (from what I have heard) is that there can be oxygen present when it is compressed meaning even the slightest spark could set it off.. others have tested this and disproven it and it could/should be somewhat safe but nobody has any solid scientific proof from what I have seen so far..
i don't think it's a diesel, in the US trucks run on gasoline and only gasoline can be run on CO. Diesels on the other hand can be run on Methane or Bio-gas.
They do exist, I have seen a few great examples running very efficiently and inexpensively. There are many companies that will make and sell you turnkey generators but they are not cheap. build one yourself if you are not loaded. Reason the power industry is not promoting these is simple business and economics; They wont make money off of customers every month if these were running, would they? Plus if everyone had one, they would need acres of trees to be 100% independent. Few have the land
You dont need wood. Anything can be burned. Such as cannabis. But the byproduct of building furniture and homes, many other things out of wood is wood waste. Usually burned or discarded rather than made into an efficient fuel
If you expose the reduction zone reactants to a high volt and high frequency field i.e. from a tesla coil surely the rate of reduction of carbon would greatly increase and so would the amount of energy released.
