[Gasification] [Stoves] Retted Switchgrass Fireball Test

[AJH]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:29:53 +1200, Doug Williams wrote:

>Hi Andrew,
>
>Please allow me a quick comment on your conclusion :

Feel free Doug and keep them coming, there's no reason to believe my
conclusion is the correct one!
>
>>This all points to producer gas being far more tolerant of
>> varying air:fuel mixtures than natural gas.
>
>I have just spent another two weeks standing beside an engine generator 
>fuelled with producer gas, and I can tell you that for this application, a 
>gnats whisker of the mark and the engine will die. In the reverse situation 
>of starting, I can tell you that it is impossible to get that engine to fire 
>if again, it is off the singular setting of the gas/air mixture.

OK but if you ran the same engine on natural gas and then made that
mixture wrong by a similar ratio how would it fair? I run a vehicle on
lpg and I don't get second chances if I foul up starting that (truth
be known if I have a hot stall I inevitably have to revert to petrol
to get it running), I know the mixtures not quite right for hot
starting but it's the best I've been able to get.

AJH