Henry,
I prefer C + 2OH → 2CO + 2H
Same process, different temps, different pressures, different dwell times…
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Hi Matt
in a multi-cylinder engine is there also an exploitable overpressure in the oil sump?
are it only the single cylinders that produce pressure in the crankcase?
Thierry
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Hi Koen
are these pumps connected to the engine intake?
and will they work with a four cylinder?
Thierry
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Hi Tom, first of all , I have built the so called hydrogen fuel and the famous Joe cells. They do not make Just Hydrogen. They make a oxygen/hydrogen mix. Very explosive mix. That is why they must have a flash back devices on them. Second the power in to make the gases is more than the power out on the production end. Do not waste your time doing it. The cost to make a true hydrogen generator that separates the hydrogen from the oxygen with a special membranes is expensive and again power cost to make it is more than you get out of it in hydrogen gases.
It is a waste of good money. It does not work like they claim. The electrical power in does not even come close to the energy made out. That’s My + $100.00 worth on it.
Bob
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Thanks for the schooling guys. I also see the error in my thinking about amending the combustion air in the gasifier itself. All the various automotive systems I’ve been hashing over such as methanol injection occur at nearly the point of use, not in the main fuel supply. In a carb engine, usually between it and the manifold. With wood or char gas as the primary fuel. I guess I will experiment with some sort of pressurized injection in the wood gas air/fuel mixer since a small engine carb is mainly just a venturi sucking gas up from the float bowl. Unless someone has already debunked that theory.
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This has steam intake to gasifier . Does not specify engine vacuum controlling amount of steam or tuning of this system .
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Yes if you close off the PVC on any engine it will build up pressure and blow out ever seal on the engine. This why it is there.
PCV > Positive Crank Case Vent it is a positive pressure.
If you pressurize a tank just simply as an adjustable vent to your tank. Look to Pneumatic air cylinder control valves. They have precise adjustable valves that would work perfect for this. However you do not need to pressurize the tank, you only need to agitate it to prevent surface tension of the fluid. Gravity is still good enough unless you are looking to spray, In that case I would be better to use a pump of sorts with a return line to tank.
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Yes if you close off the PVC on any engine it will build up pressure and blow out every seal on the engine. This why it is there.
PCV > Positive Crank Case Vent it is a positive pressure.
If you pressurize a tank just simply use an adjustable vent to your tank. Look to Pneumatic air cylinder control valves. They have precise adjustable valves that would work perfect for this. there are meter in and meter out valves. So you will want the ones that meter out. However you do not need to pressurize the tank, you only need to agitate it to prevent surface tension of the fluid. Gravity is still good enough unless you are looking to spray, In that case I would be better to use a pump of sorts with a return line to tank.
I attached a mini shop vac to my pcv valve . Just because so many other parts were not working , I had no understanding of how many things were broken . But I was still operating unit and producing power for a short period of time .
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If it is not broken it does not have enough features .
You will never have these problems
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I dont know for sure but I think if you injected steam into the gas after it exits a raw fueled gasifier it would be more effective in the cooling stage to drop out more moisture and tar. The condensing process is a cooling process and if there is no moisture to drop it is un effective.
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I have another part . after another part . both useless . one is a pipe going under water . other is 30 gal drum that should catch moisture and tar but wood gas is to hot for it to do anything. Then I have a hay filter . I have no idea what is left in there .
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Been there tried that. It did work to an extent but not enough to meet the goals I had intended. I used marbles with a high pressure pump to constantly flush this marble bed. Just made a yucky mess in there and was a pain to remove the tar glued together marbles and then clean them. So scrapped that idea and that was when I started the use the bag filters. Funny how that all works the things I would not try are the things in the end that actually work. Bag filters are the way and you can always put additional media in them.
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The original filter was wood chips of progressive sizes and then oiled foam filters , It was determined that this just added more tar . Then filter of all charcoal was prescribed and I still have it . I will add shower of water to this still existing filter . The thing that was my idea did not work . I thought I could divert fluids from gases , I put a wet blanket around it poured water over it , It was just to hot to have any effect . I am not sure anyone else would have my experience because of other issues with flaws in construction and eureka features
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HHO devices are how a lot of us got here into woodgas 
Yeah no need to pre crack it when you can do this much more effectively via thermo carbon cracking for basically free plus we cool our reaction in the process to keep things from melting down.
Building an HHO device that is efficient is a big PITA!!! But I did have a great amount of fun building them and blowing stuff up with them. BOOOOOOM!!!
2 liter bottle rocket launch
Advanced cell I built that is now in Germany on a US base for an Alternative Energy Curriculum study.
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Hi Thierry,
In my experience they don’t. Coz they need the suction as a pulse to move the diaphragma of the pump inside.
The other one have electric pulsing
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That is an very interesting research. Maybe when a drop of water falls into the very hot heart it cracks into oxygen and hidróge… Water is known to have a strange behavior always doing unexpected things like expanding while frozing
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What if you drip hot demineralized water? Hot to close 100celcius
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I think historically there have been more injures , causalities from steam then wood gasification .
Historically there have been more injures , causalities from timber industry than any other occupation .
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