Is A Gasifier The Best Alternate Energy Source?

A gasifyer is a mechanical device for heating wood chips, or many other types of dry organic matter, to a temperature high enough to release the volatile gasses locked within them. The gasses produced can be burned in an engine to make power or merely burned in a heating system. The fundamental structure of the gasifier may be a container perhaps the size of an oil barrel which needs to be well insulated to retain the heat.

The container has within it a layer of burning fuel. This has access to outside air, allowing a small part to burn, but under controlled conditions, and start the gas production.

This makes the whole process self contained.

A modest controlled burn is necessary, partially because you do not want to simply set fire to all the combustion volume, and the small fire burning with limited oxygen is efficient. This warmth is used to dry out and warm the fuel stock, so that when it falls into the fire grate, it will readily burn. Temperatures of the order of 1200 degrees F should be aimed for. These hot volatile gasses ascend naturally and escape at the top of the cylinder. They are then filtered to take out particles, and cooled as a denser gas has more power.

A specific benefit is a gasifyer is it is self contained yet small enough to be moveable by pallet or trailer. A four cylinder engine needs an oil drum sized gas producer, but if the fuel is a waste product, the gas is just as good.

Any combination of chipped wood and or branches, rice or corn husks, shells, pits, animal dung, in fact any waste organic material, could be used. Even fast growing willow might be planted as a fuel harvest.

Using commercial agricultural waste as a fuel will not just save cash, but also monumental amounts of landfill space. The gasifyer residue, or char, is an excellent soil conditioner, making it a very eco-friendly alternative.

My specialty is more with the usage of a gasifyer to trim house hold expenses and or off grid living.

household gasification has the extra advantage of producing gasses, regularly called syngas, that are very clean burning, producing little or no contamination.

The claim is that 20lbs of dry chipped wood is equivalent to 1 gallon of petrol. A suitably sized gasifier could be made to furnish all the gas for a selected engine, the larger the gasifier the bigger the engine. A gasifyer does not necessarily call for any external power although this will help to start the machine, someone will still have to fuel the machine. Once running the inductance from an internal combustion engine will draw air through the hearth, helpfully making it self sustaining.Check Out The Gasifyer.com

As a green alternate energy source a gasifyer and petrol generator offers a serious solution.

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