Hi everyone I’m curious as to know if i can modify the Wayne Keith gasifier to work on a smaller generator. I’m not sure if the book talks about it as it hasn’t arrived yet. Would i need to insert a firetube restriction? or make a smaller gasifier.
Thanks!
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Hello Josh-man
Welcome to the DOW.
Here are a couple of older posted up video’s showing WayneK talking about his systems.
He traveled ~400+ miles of highways to get from his farm in northern Alabama to this Kansas location.
He used an earlier version of his system to go east coast to west coast and then participate in a use NO Gasoline long rally race.
He did from his larger V-8 engine system once it was V-8 engine warmed up and stabilized; woodgas fuel a smaller portable generator he carried along. The power from that running an electric table saw to cut up road-sides brush woods. And behind stores broken shipping pallet woods.
Ha! I can no longer find the video showing that.
So instead:
This time focus on the easier to make large wood chunk sizing he shows.
The sad, sad truth found by many of us is the smaller the engine system then making a smaller woodgasifier you must make much smaller wood chunks. Labor intensive unless you make a shearing chunker using sap-down, winter woods, twigs stripped off branched and sucker growths.
So we divide on experiences learned thoughts approaches.
Make a system to with wood fuel using existing owned small electrical generators . . . and that leads to charcoal gasification.
Or acquire/buying a larger electrical generator that can use reasonably sized chunked up woods.
The lower “easy” limit has been proven to be ~1000cc + sized engines. You will now have Premium access side to WayneK making up a down sized unit for his IHC four cylinder gasoline farm tractor. That will show the much smaller fuel he had to use.
This can be taken even down to ~500cc LOADED sized engines. With much more drying care and size crafting of the wood chunks. Not a WK. Different systems.
Then you hard engine load (pulling, loading the gasifer Hot) in 2-4 hours a day; twice a day batch cycles.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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