[Gasification] restored WWII motorcycle gasifier similar to chinese gassifier

[Peter Singfield]

Wow!!

Quite the deal indeed -- 

It is about half the size of the Chinese gasifier -- and probably a lot
lighter!!

Peter / Belize


At 11:15 AM 2/1/2007 -0800, drew wrote:
>http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/files/100_3407%20%20wood%20gas%20motorc
ycle.jpg
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>Here is the link to the higher res jpg.    This one you should be able 
>to read, the thumbnail on the web is not readable.    The whole article 
>is only 1 page but the user seems to have put quite a few miles on it, 
>using it's sidecar to store fuel....      The similarity to me is in the 
>overall size and shape.   The internal dimensions are hard to judge, but 
>the fact that no throat is visible and no heat marks are obvious would 
>lead me to believe that it is lined like the Chinese version with a 
>refractory material.    The filter/cooler unit looks very flashy, I 
>wonder if it is original?    My grandfather rode bikes similar to this 
>one (gasoline ver), and he said they ran around 12hp,  so if that were 
>down rated for wood gas that would be 8hp?    That sounds very close to 
>the right output for your small diesel engine experiments.   One of the 
>critical issues seems to be the size and shape of the reduction tube.   
>The FAO documents seem to say that the reduction tube should never be 
>smaller diameter than about 2", which seems about the same as the 
>Chinese version, the tricky thing is that it seems to me that the 
>Chinese version's reduction tube is very short?  the FAO docs seem to 
>call for much longer?    This guy is running his on hardwood, not 
>charcoal as I stated earlier.
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>All the best
>Drew
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