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The pipes pointing downward are like steps to help climbing up the side. That is what it said in French on the diagram drawing above. Google translate is sure handy. Yes and what Steve said for roding the gasifier firetube out of clunkers.
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also here a lot of pictures…
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bob, a bit more down on the site i found later a drawing of this gasifier…the inclinated pipes are nozzles in different height…maybee simil as tone has in his gasifier…when the motor creates more vacuum, this will activate the upper nozzles…
very old model, for shut off every pipe must be closed, how steve said…the more modern construction have a additional outer shell for simple shut off…
for climbing up i cannot immagine, hot gasifier, legs and body too near to the hot metal, difficult to keep balance in this position for control or refueling…
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Good you found this early DOW topic GiorgioP.
Many, many worthy pictures and system diagrams were put up and mostly saved from 13 years ago.
Many of us been here since the DOW’s beginning in early 2012 have forgotten this topic with it’s contents.
It was under then the original DOW set up framework called Dry-Pal?
That system got clogged massively slowed down by to0 many latest cell-phones mega-byte pictures being loaded up. Cursor sweep and you will see these old retained ones were loaded up in mere kilo-bytes. Plus it had too many growing security concerns to Chris Seanz the Administrator.
It did not have a hearts-like “thumbs-up” agreement feature.
I am now halfway thru its 207 postings putting in now my hearts-likes approvals.
I had to take a break from that now for maybe a day or so. It was making me too sad.
Too many died, lost friends - four. A few who became extremely disappointed they could not push, pull, or even buy modern gasification into wide use deployments. A couple of marriage divorces by guys I’ve face-to-faced with who insisting on obsessively trying. Trying to save the world. Trying to energy save their families, resulting in losing their family.
And a couple of those guys moved on with life and I’ve agreed not to make-notice of them, and were they now live.
Many guys simply will not accept that woodgas using in todays supplied-refined-easy-use energies, is for those who have chosen to live out true Rural. Rural with thier own fuel wood trees.
Then it is fuel-use sustainable. No asking. No explaining. No permits. No humbling taxation.
Then it is a shout out to personal energy freedom. Chainsaw costs and exhausts; splinters and work blisters; aching tired muscles; bruises and lump bumps; and always the possibility of saw or axe injuries just part and parcel to living true free.
Go others-made wood fuel pellets?? Here for me, and most others, it is cheaper and cleaner to just buy-out LPG/propane. Buying out energy, is buying out your energy; wether it comes by the bag, gallon, liter, pound, or over a Grid electrical line.
Go charcoal woodgas? Commercially consumer bagged bought here where I live, would be even 3X, 4X the cost of our over carbons-taxed pump gasoline. And here to make your own wood charcoal only possible smoke-less, un-regulators noticed, for just 2-3 months.
Wood for a gasifier I can do all 12 months of the year.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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