Today tested…
1.15Kg Charcoal in 1 Hour, evaporated 1,78 Kg water
will post some video’s soon
amazing how nice blue is in the dark …
Great work Koen!
It makes me hungry to visualize a big pot of grits on the burner !
Some blue still’s…
The red shine comes every time after a throttle down and up again…
if runs on constant high flow it runs nice pale blue…
Must be possible to reduce the heat loss to gain in efficiency…
but breathtaking beautiful watching it in real…
and clean as for energy source… ( not comparable with dirty chunks of local made charcoal 
, these are words from the local department of the ministry of energy )
Love the blue. And the “minister” is right on.
Amazing work.
Can’t wait to see what you can do with wood.
Marvin
Hi Marvin,
Before i can start with wood i have to learn more from you guy’s here 
But i will start with bamboo
Youtube’s
start up for the cooker
Switching between cooker and pump
Water is boiling
Blue flame cooking in the night
Blue flame under the cooking pot
Cooking pot in the dark
Now working on the final design before making series
Went to the local market yesterday evening, with the bike and demo material.
Amazing how much attention that it attracts.
They like it and they want more…
Using the flash on the camera makes the flame on the cooking stove invisible…
Starting the engine from the battery charger and water pump , alternated with bike and cooking stove…
Computer recovering…
A set back, but not with the gasifier…
Lightning strike in the village on the electricity pole…
Mac book gone… and a lot more, dough they where over a electric back up system…
The earth connector did pass the high voltage everywhere…
scratching my data together and reconfiguring a new Mac book.
need a new license on the drawing program or using another program.
same for the sketches…
Will be continued…
Never dispair… never give up…
How unfortunate Koen.
I am certain you will you will have something up and running in no time.
My sympathies Koen
We run every thing with electronics through ups, we have had two lightning strikes this year.
It’s a pain in the ass!
Thanks
Patrick
It is a pain in the bottom yes…
Its also because its so dry that the earth cabling is not sufficient.
I have a huge battery ups system, was disconnected from the mains.
So running on battery.
The lightning jumped over to the earthing in a dozen houses.
My house; the main switch from the ups charger exploded out of the housing…
All led lightning gone…
Mac book gone…
Lucky for me my data server was of line and totaly disconnected.
The plug box from the extention cord next to my bed jumped 5 ft high, the spark burned trough the housing and went in the floor. Through the plastic flooring…
Its awesome to see it happening, but assesing the damage makes you cry…
Nobody hurt, life goes on…
My gasifier still works
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Test drive today…
SWEM a lot today
We did a guided testdrive to see how things would react under longer distances and finding out the real life consumption / issue’s
distance was 32 KM before halt, consumption was 1 Kg Charcoal
Gives about 3 Kg per 100Km, not bad to start with.
No gauges, no temperature checks, just rock and roll and listening to the engine.
After the 32 Km the engine stalled, no obvious reason, the reactor and gas where still cool.
When restarting was weak engine power.
We decided just to upload the bike and check at home.
At home we did find the reason: a piece of slack on top of the nozzle, blocking 80%
The blockage prevented the entrance of the steam as well so no more hydrogen for Higher RPM’s
Only CO did overheat the engine a little, since was a very old engine , there was oil leakage but minor.
So after all, a very pleasant SWEM experience and preparing a next test with minor modifications.
For comparisation we will also perform a test drive with gasoline on the same track - speed
The reduced gearing and the low available rpm on a 108 cc bike, gave speed between 35 - 45 Km / hr
Just the feeling for vibration, no Tacho meter, no speedometer…
Feeling wonderful.
One of the next steps is to make a complete automated system… ( computerised )
My Thai friend is asking for building one for him…
KVL, Looking good! That black tank really reduces the height of your charcoal reactor. Did you add the bung in the top quarter of the tank so you could inspect the charcoal level? Did you use the steam coils on the older version? Thanks for the updates.
Hi Ray,
yes i did use the steam coil on my last tests.
The coil is working great.
will post some pictures next from the findings.
The filter section stay’s bone dry, in the first filter there is a lot of grey dust powder ( looks like gunpowder )
Also in the ashes, , white lumps, ( powder sugar like ) they fall apart if you squeeze them, looks like its sulfer sulfide ? (H2s reacted with charcoal ? )
Using the size of charcoal <10mm with everything bigger then dust seems to give the best reaction in fluctuation from the amount of gas due to the trotheling. ( also when i reduce the flare speed, it stays more blue at lower fan speed , cooking mode )
Latest test was with 10 mm nozzle, might give an elevated temperature at the nozzle.
Next test i am using a full stainless nozzle , 16 mm drilled, 5 mm walls, trying to find the best limits.
I guess its something Dutch John already mentioned once; it all depends the real power you are asking the gasifier.
So i am defintly going further with building a test multi nozzle set.
The openings in the tank side , are for more testing capability’s, hot gas or adding bio gas.
I am wondering what will happen with the methane from the bio gas if it passes the hot charcoal.
The Co2 from the raw bio gas will be converted into Co, but what with the CH4 ?
More of concern is the amount of H2s… What are the other builder using to protect themselves ( engines ) ?
I am using an extra pile of charcoal and iron swarf.
waiting for an opprtunity to go testing the gas contents…
Pic 1 and 2, the grey powder in the first filter
Pic 3, the new set, the larger tank has 12" diameter and is 16" high
It gives me a total of 33 Liters volume - or 6,6 kg
useable 5 Kg instead of 1,5 Kg
The temperature at the top of the tank, is the indicator for refill.
The top cover is now a 4" pvc threated + cap ( same as the filter caps )
The water flask is going to be in blue pvc 4" as well ( building tomorow )
Looks good Koen.
You may have mentioned it before, what is the range?
Did you make the side car or is that something that is common?
The range is about 150 Km now, not tested the full yet. ( 5 Kg useable charcoal )
The side car is common used, seen all over Thailand.
Now Water party in Thailand for the Thai New Year. ( Songkarn festival )