Oh Ive got a really good idea on how to make a very simple boiler to adapt to an engine exhaust.
Just take a pipe and weld a cap on one end. Then drill a hole on the other end 2 inches from the end to weld in a water feed tube. Now all you have to do is use a hole saw and punch through the side of the muffler a few inches away from the inlet from the engine. Then weld it in on a slight angle so the water has to drain to the end cap. Blow exhaust directly on it then Im going to use the SS flex hose and adapt that to the end of this boiler. Then wrap that around the neck of the gasifier then feed into the wood fuel jets in a close loop so no air feed. Thats how I can get more steam in there without crashing the temps at the nozzle.
a lot of things can be doneā¦
Just donāt forget to become more rich rather than more poor.
From my experience, using any heat source available makes the process of splitting water into Hydrogen / Oxygen more feasible. Its all about your personal skillset and your McGyver attitude.
The lucky thing what you have with your skills: You aināt Don Quichotte and there arenāt windmills in your work.
You will succeed.
A while back I looled into injecting water into my carās intake to increase power and fuel economy. Pat Goodman did it back in the 1970s. He also put new higher compression pistons in a Ford Fiesta. He actually got really high economy numbers.
And, for a while, I saw that Bosch seemed to be developing a similar, but more modern, system they called Hydroboost.
And the old P-51 Mustang, back in WW2, had a button the pilot could push, in very dire situations, that would spray water into the intake and give him a burst of power.
My opinion, a lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time and brain space trying to make that work. But it never became economical. Yes, race car guys still do it, but they are not so concerned with economics.
Now I see something similar happening with people trying to put super heated steam into a gasifier. Kristijan looked into it. Now Koen has apparently looked into it. I looked into it. My opinion is that it is a wild goose chase, or a tilt at windmills, as Koen said.
These guys were doing steam assisted gasification a while back. Nice looking units but I think they were trying to market them and they were expensive. I guess they gave up because they disappeared.
Water injection with gasification is completely different process than water boosting an engine.
These machines that have water injection are not a charcoal gasifier. They are water gas generators with internal combustion process. Bare in mind this is a second water injection process. This second one dont have to be stable. As far as the water injection goes it works! My issues are related to water that have nothing to do the gasifier process. Its the water delivery method that I have to fuguire out and i think have that solve with the pump.
Yup that was Troy Martz. They were on the right track but came on maket at the wrong time. NO ONE was buying gasifiers from anyone during thier time on market. This is infortunate because they would be much farther along than I am.
Wow I just set up the EG4 ChargeVerter and wow that things is awesome!! If you are wood fuel charging a battery bank forget the inverter generators and get one of those and the old school cheaper units. The EG4 can handle the small generators on up to the 10 Kw units if not larger.
You can set the precise amperage and the ramp up on that thing is nice and slow its not abrupt at all. It takes a good 20 to 30 seconds to ramp up to 25 amps.
So with a wood gasifier its not so abrupt so you can get a little more out of it. Its also 110 /220 volt. So its a really good match with the 4375 with its 220 output. The cost for this together I think is about the same for a comparable inverter genny. The ChargeVerter is designed to handle dirty power .
I did a wieght on the fuel and I was spot on 5 gallon pale was 6 lbs.
Im running at 23 amps at the moment with 53 volts out = 1200 watts. I had it set at 25 amp and it was charging at 25.8 at 53.4 volts= 1375 watts and it did that for a good half hour but it died down after a bit and its starting to do it again.
I started the run at 5:30 pm and its 6:23 right now. Standing buy and just letter her go. Its a farily stable machine right now.
Ok ended at 7 pm. So about an 1 1/2 this run and I was only able to get just over a 1 liter into it
Oh well not all fuel is the same plus a Im loading it down now. This fuel probably could have used a little more time in the retort not all of it was converted. There was some black goo at the engine intake coupler but it washed off. But it was thicker like tar. No valve noise and the last half hour was not as stable as the first hour. I think Im just going to extend the hopper up and make it taller.
The gas cooler has about table spoon worth of condensate. Ill be making a ammo box filter for it this week I need to get a filter on it yet.
Hard to tell what my net watt hours are with the changes I had to make. I think if I average it out would be close to 20 amps at 53 volts. So about 1.5 kW/hours for the 1 1/2 hour run. Ill take it lol. It will get better on other runs. When I stopped it was not quite down all way either. Its probably close to 3.5 lbs per kW/hour.
I chipped up some oak and dried that overnight and today; but its supposed to rain later here. So scooped it up and stored it.
