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My grandfather used to tell me when I was a kid about the wood gasifiers on the road in Sweden in the late 1930s. It's a fascinating story. The Royal Swedish Academy account is available from the Biomass institute in Golden, Colorado.
Basically you create a smudge fire(pyrolysis or destructive distillation), which gives off carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas, along with a lot of tars and other impurities, and run it with metered air into the engine. The CO and H2 are oxidised in the combustion.
Ugly, heavy, dirty, unhealthy, unreliable, low performance solution. But you can get your fuel almost anywhere.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Converting a dead 9000 to an electric vehicle, Danah, Tue, 27 May 2008 14:12:12
- Why not go with woodgas?, DickT , Wed, 28 May 2008 17:16:41 <-- Viewing This Message
- Saw a show on TV called Green machines, 97 aero auto, Wed, 28 May 2008 08:32:59
- Light Cars, Bill Homer , Wed, 28 May 2008 08:29:32
- why?, earthbrown, Tue, 27 May 2008 18:25:24
- Re: why?, pjl, Tue, 27 May 2008 19:14:49
- Re: Why not propane instead?, davidk, Tue, 27 May 2008 16:13:34
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