[Gasification] Horizontal

[Fredrik Ek]

You can ignite the woodgas and air mixture with small amounts of diesel. in 
practcal use this will require about 10 % of the diesel you normally would 
use.

Ignition can be done with less diesel than this but you will then get 
problems with getting the injectors cooled. Some heavy soot deposits may 
also appear with very little diesel injected.

If you use diesel injection for igniting the mixture, you can use a 
compression ratio of 1:17. With spark plugs you have to lower the 
compression ratio to about 1:13 in order to avoid knocking.

Fredrik

Citerar Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com>:

>    First off, I don't know that I'd bother to try to turn it into a
> spark engine -- what will you do for a distributor, etc? Using small
> amounts of diesel will fire off the producer gas just fine. And, if need
> be, make up for the big power loss when going up hills and passing.
>    But I sure wouldn't put the gasifier inside. Why not hang it on the
> back end -- or pull a small trailer?
> 
> 
> Ian Vincent wrote:
> > Hi guys..mostly...!
> > 
> > I have a vehicle. What I would call a Van. Names for vehicles vary
> with
> > culture. It is a Toyota Townace Diesel. It is sitting in my shed..it
> has
> > a cylinder head leak that causes it to blow its water and
> overheat..BUT
> > 
> > If I take off the cylinder head and fix the leak..and at the same time
> > put in some threaded holes for spark plugs..then it could be a
> candidate
> > for a gasifier conversion. But I have never seen such a vehicle used
> > with a gasifier. Hence why  I ask your collective comments.
> > 
> > There are two problems..maybe more. As I see them.
> > 
> > Problem one
> > One is that there is not enough height for an primary gasification
> > chamber. The bigger the better..More Km. There is plenty of room..but
> > horizontal room.
> > 
> > Problem two
> > Is  is that the gasifier device is inside the van..and the potential
> for
> > my own personal gasification. CO!!..I am not suicidal at this point in
> > time..so why. It is an easy problem to solve. ie just die!!
> > 
> > Solution
> > BUT!! there is a possibility..that collectively all of our brains and
> > minds can solve these problems..hence
> > 
> > If I put a barrier between the drivers compartment and the unit..then
> > problem two goes away. Right?
> > 
> > Next is the height thing.! My reasoning says that a conventional
> > gasifier delivers its fuel using gravity, vertically.
> > 
> > Yet the rocket stove principle delivers it fuel horizontally. And it
> has
> > a distinct advantage over conventional ideas..right?
> > 
> > (hey! is know the rocket stove is about the temperature gradient)
> ..this
> > is about gradients..In gravity..right
> > 
> > My question is this!!. Is it possible to have a gasifier chamber that
> is
> > horizontal? A ninety degrees change in gradient. From vertical to
> > horizontital. (Orthogonal perhaps).
> > 
> > Ideas are what is wanted here..imagination..engineering..etc
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Ian
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Harmon Seaver
> 
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