Hi Mark Brown. I echo welcome to the DOW too.
First your goal is now well 21st century advanced, proven and DOable.
For your best info traction here on the DOW open up that horizontal stacked lines icon on the top tool bar to see all of this forums topics sections.
You will find Gary Gilmore “the Charcoal Man” and others doing this as DavidB says with that made fuel in CharcoalGasification.
Next if you are a cut/chipped/pellet raw wood fuel intended; look over all of the Topics in the Small Engine Systems section. After reading some topics for background you will get your best specific to you advises by starting your own project line/topic on one of these sections. These are intentionally on the public side of the DOW and do NOT require a premium membership application.
You WILL want to state you actual wood fuel availability. Ability to get a continuous source of wood fuel.
For numbers on a 5kW electrical generator set you can easy read here: Contrary to internet myth now DYI electrical power from wood is not free. Your system Beast will always be demanding a fuel imput just like any other!
Now “for free”, read:
www.woodgas.nl “Micro Gasifiers” - this is Dutch John microgasification personal projects info with pictures. Read his words, and outcomes carefully and he will lay out his “stepped over a boundary” too-far failures, as well as his put it to work successes. He does back up generate with his one system. Ha! And really, really hard to match, let alone beat his effeinecy/use numbers!
And read back here for Ben Peterson’s Victory Shop developed systems fuel use/powers made numbers:
www.elmiraohio.com/Gasifier%20Docs/VictoryGasifier.pdf
His book system is a later DYI let-out pictured step by step to a carbon steel build up for these use/production numbers.
The APL/GEK info and designs are valid for a DIY make fuelwood chunked raw wood fueler only up through Versions l, II, and early III’s. After later III’s then only usable for augerable-in capable “biomass” fuel stocks.
The downsized WK systems info and projects details are here on the premium membership side.
We are all just On The Road to Better personal freedoms
Steve Unruh