[Gasification] small scale gasifiers for those that need them

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Michael

Doug Williams has published a sketch on his Site, showing the essence of 
a gasifier system that works to produce an "engine grade fuel gas." See: 
  http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/anniversary.htm

If you start with that as a "working reference", it would seem to be a 
big leap from the Turkey Broiler intended to heat cooking oil to about 
350F, to a basic gasifier as shown in Doug's presentation.

It would appear to me that not very many turkey cooker parts or 
materials could be used in a gasifier producing engine grade fuel, ie, 
low tar gas. It is hard to see how one could impose a gasifier design 
onto the turkey cooker.

Best wishes,

Kevin

Michael Redler wrote:
> Kevin, list,
> 
> As someone who hasn't built anything more sophisticated than what one 
> can do with coffee cans and five gallon buckets, I'd like a test unit as 
> an educational tool so I can test different fuels, and become accustomed 
> to startup and running conditions. After that, I'd like to run an 
> internal combustion engine one one - primarily an electric generator. My 
> ultimate goal is to build a trailer mounted electric generator. I see a 
> plug-in hybrid car in my future and the possibility of using a gasifier 
> as a way to charge batteries and augment power in my home seem appealing 
> to me.
> 
> The reason the turkey fryer caught my eye was the idea that one could 
> take advantage of someone else's mass production efforts if the 
> combination of parts in a consumer product bares any similarity to what 
> an experimenter would usually build from scratch. If this idea holds 
> true, one could save time and money during their experimentation. As a 
> side effect, it changes one's perspective of places like The Home Depot, 
> as one sees the usefulness of the technology rather than the usefulness 
> of the product within the scope of it's intended design.
> 
> Mike
> 
> Kevin Chisholm wrote:
>> Dear Michael
>>
>> What do you want to accomplish with a small scale gasifier system? For 
>> what purpose?
>>
>> The Turkey Fryer is a neat system indeed. Depending on what you want to 
>> do with it, it may or may not be appropriate.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Michael Redler wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I was reviewing some recent threads and realized that "small scale 
>>> gasifiers for those that need them" is somewhat related to a message I 
>>> posted, regarding improvisation to consumer products in order to speed 
>>> up the development of a small scale gasifier.
>>>
>>> I didn't receive any responses and thought that maybe this might be a 
>>> way to bring it up again. I'm thinking of using an ordinary turkey fryer 
>>> as the foundation for a small gasifier.
>>>
>>> http://www.northlineexpress.com/detail~PRODUCT_ID~6KK-2030.asp
>>>
>>> ...any thoughts.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>     
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