[Stoves] Chinese Gasifier Stove

[Ken Boak]

Tom & list,

Just to clarify a couple of points about the Chinese gasifier.

>From Peter's measurements - the fuel hopper will hold  about 45 litres of
wood chips - about 11 kg.

I estimate that it will have a burn time of about 2 hours at full output.

If the air vent is shut and the blower fan turned off, the gasifier will
idle for up to 20 hours, at which point it can be restarted just by adding
more fuel and starting the blower fan.

The gas produced from 1 hopper should offset about 4.5 litres of diesel fuel
or veg oil in the Lister application.

The gas volume produced per hour and calorific values stated by the
manufacturer cover a wide range and only through specific testing can we
qualify these figures.

I hope that this is the start of an interesting new project.



Ken Boak


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Miles" <tmiles at trmiles.com>
To: "'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves'" <stoves at listserv.repp.org>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 12:36 AM
Subject: [Stoves] Chinese Gasifier Stove


> Peter Singfield and Ken Boak have been discussing a chinese gasifier on
the
> gasification list.
>
http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/gasification_listserv.repp.org/2006-Novem
> ber/date.html
>
> Peter bought the straw-fired gasifier which is intended to produce gas for
> up to 20 hours for a 2 burner stove. There are pictures and drawings of
the
> unit on the gasification website.
> http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
>
> Peter and Ken intend to use it to run a 3 kW engine generator. Peter is
> selling the gasifer in Belize for $650. He intends to sell a 3 KWe
> gasifier-generator for $1800 or $600/kWe.
>
> This the same gasifier that is sold by Kevin Chisholm (WattPower)
> http://www.wattpower.com/wpindex6.html
>
> Tom
> www.bioenergylists.org
> http://gasifers.bioenergylists.org
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