Toyota Corolla Charcoal Vehicle Gasifier Project

[Woodrunner (Göran kindervall)]

You could always collect rain water, it’s pretty free of minerals, and filtered through a filter paper it’s good enough for topping up lead-acid batteries.

[madflower69 (Sean Omalley)]

@r_wesseling

Controls: automotive mass air flow sensor plus arduino. Probem: microbial growth. Might have to use windshield cleaning fluid. Come to think of it maybe automotive parts: windshield fluid tank, pump, tubing, nozzle. Then control the 12VDC pump via mass air flow sensor and duino. Don’t ever let it run dry because the pump motor is cooled by the fluid.

-You MIGHT be able to use a pressure sensor, Then you can figure out the airflow by the pressure.

• hydrogen peroxide will kill the bacteria.

• Diaphragm pumps are okay to run dry. But if you want to do actually water metering, they have other pumps, that essentially all they are is a wheel controlled by a stepper motor with rollers on it that roll over a tube to squirt precise amounts of water.

[Chuckw97055 (Chuck Whitlock)]

“peristaltic pump” is the search term for the metering pumps. Lots to choose from on Amazon.