Caio,
Welcome! Eddie Ramos does most of his communications on the Auto A Basura group on Facebook. here is a basic link to that page.
Auto a basura Grupo | Facebook
He is very genuine about sharing the knowledge about gasification.
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@Matt as well as a few others, have tried whole systems similar to what you are proposing. There are 3 issues. The pellets themselves have binders that are additives and can cause issues. The power output of woodgas is <40% of rated power on gas, and single cylinder engines don’t create continuous air flow which causes issues in the combustion chamber.
Eventually Matt changed to coal and dual generators.
It sawdust works much better at a much larger, industrial scale.
Honestly, if you are looking for grid power, then you are probably better off installing solar panels and using the sawdust to improve your soil nutrients. Solar is a lot less work, but also more expensive to start.
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Yeah you need solar first. You need an inverter with battery storage reguardless for any wood gasifier of any kind made by anyone to be practical and viable. This is only a good solution for solar and wind back up. Its not a reliable technology for everyday usage and you need a battery storage system.
Running a stationary wood gassed power generator as a primary power solution is the last thing you will ever want to do. After about a week you will throw that gasifier in the landfill and resort back to candles.
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Dont waste one second more of your life thinking about or designing a wood gasifer of anykind for small engines. Its a waste of your time, your money and your sanity. Stop and start learning about charcoal gasifier. Reguardless you will end up here in the end. So do it now and forget wood fueled systems and wasting all that time, money and energy. Charcoal is the only way to run small engines under 1000cc reliably and making charcoal is not less efficient. If you have an efficient retort and a gasifier that can crack a lot of water the gross energy in versus out is about the same. What you lose in charcoaling the water cracking puts back. Plus you and use that charcoal retort for heating and hot water production. You can make charcoal into a CHP system far easer than a wood gasifier system.
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Mike I’ll stop by, thanks. Sean is a mix of DIY and initial savings. I have plans to install more solar panels but I would really like to do it with wood gas/coal, I think it’s fantastic and I’m not limited to the sun for a few hours. Sorry for the delay in responding, it seems I was too quick and was blocked from responding.
Matt, I have solar energy (I installed it myself. I like to get my hands dirty). The system here in Brazil is distributed generation. I’ll explain better. You get approval from the electricity company for generation, whether it’s solar (much simpler) or biomass or hydraulic, of any power up to 75 kW peak. You spend part of it in your home or business, and the rest you can use in any meter or meters from the same company in your city or neighboring cities. I don’t have batteries; the grid itself serves as one. I’m very inclined to coal, I know it’s easier. I did an updraft (video above). I’m studying to improve and understand the practice of all this. I haven’t used water yet. I did coal too. I have to fix leaks.
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The economics is where we get hung up in the US. What are the requirements to get the AC power from a generator sync’d to the grid? That is a huge stumbling block in the US.
Sean, sorry if the question was for me, I couldn’t understand the translation failed, if you can give more details
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His plan is to generate Direct Current and use Grid Tie inverters to go to his Meter.
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Cody, that’s right, I can arrange with a neighbor or someone else and sell at a lower price than the energy company even using its own network
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