[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')The reason a wood gas generator can power cars and trucks is that the internal combustion engine is actually powered by vapor, not liquid. In a gasoline-powered engine, gasoline is vaporized before entering the combustion chamber. Diesel is a little different; it’s sprayed into the combustion chamber as fine droplets which burn as they vaporize. Either way, if you can put a clean combustible vapor into the engine, you’ve got power....

Gasifying a solid material partially burns it, which preserves some of the energy that would normally be wasted in the gas (otherwise there wouldn’t be anything left for the engine to burn). The gas contains a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N), and a small amount of methane (CH4)."

---from the link in the prior post.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')The reason a wood gas generator can power cars and trucks is that the internal combustion engine is actually powered by vapor, not liquid. In a gasoline-powered engine, gasoline is vaporized before entering the combustion chamber. Diesel is a little different; it’s sprayed into the combustion chamber as fine droplets which burn as they vaporize. Either way, if you can put a clean combustible vapor into the engine, you’ve got power....

Gasifying a solid material partially burns it, which preserves some of the energy that would normally be wasted in the gas (otherwise there wouldn’t be anything left for the engine to burn). The gas contains a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N), and a small amount of methane (CH4)."

---from the link in the prior post.

[Fredrik]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'B')aloney

[vision-master]

Please explain how this wood stove turns the wheels? I mean over 100 years ago coal was used for energy, but the heat was used to heat water into steam to drive the wheels. How can a wood stove produce enough energy without using the BTU's of steam to perform mechanical work?

A steam engine uses the expansion of steam in order to drive a piston or turbine to perform mechanical work. In other industrial applications steam is used as a repository of energy, which is introduced and extracted by heat transfer, usually through pipes. Steam is a capacious reservoir for energy because of water's high heat of vaporization. The ability to return condensed steam as water-liquid to the boiler at high pressure with relatively little expenditure of pumping power is also important. Engineers use an idealised thermodynamic cycle, the Rankine cycle, to model the behaviour of steam engines.

[vision-master]

Please explain this system, details please..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSgL0Ie4zrI

[davep]

[web]http://www.whatiamupto.com/gasification/index.html[/web]

[vision-master]

Gasification. Like what the Germans did with coal to produce gasoline, except on a mini scale. I have an article around here somewhere about this process out of Popular Mechanics aka 1930's.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')The reason a wood gas generator can power cars and trucks is that the internal combustion engine is actually powered by vapor, not liquid. In a gasoline-powered engine, gasoline is vaporized before entering the combustion chamber. Diesel is a little different; it’s sprayed into the combustion chamber as fine droplets which burn as they vaporize. Either way, if you can put a clean combustible vapor into the engine, you’ve got power....

Gasifying a solid material partially burns it, which preserves some of the energy that would normally be wasted in the gas (otherwise there wouldn’t be anything left for the engine to burn). The gas contains a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N), and a small amount of methane (CH4)."

---from the link in the prior post.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '"')The reason a wood gas generator can power cars and trucks is that the internal combustion engine is actually powered by vapor, not liquid. In a gasoline-powered engine, gasoline is vaporized before entering the combustion chamber. Diesel is a little different; it’s sprayed into the combustion chamber as fine droplets which burn as they vaporize. Either way, if you can put a clean combustible vapor into the engine, you’ve got power....

Gasifying a solid material partially burns it, which preserves some of the energy that would normally be wasted in the gas (otherwise there wouldn’t be anything left for the engine to burn). The gas contains a mixture of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen (N), and a small amount of methane (CH4)."

---from the link in the prior post.

[dutchcyclist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.co ... erator.pdf ( US government file on constructing your own woodgas generator in case of emergency )