the gasifier has no fan, but a air pump…
seems the motor draws the grass cutting tool, so one horse is needed only for draft
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Trying to figure out how this thing works. Does Entree du gas for part B mean air is taken in there, heated in a manifold and tromboned around to some sort of valve at E to nozzle F. Not sure where nozzle G feeds from. D has something to do with gas combustable. Maybe a light up port? Is there supposed to be more details under the grate for gas to exit? No clue to what A does. Is this French?
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tom,how i can combine from italian language: b is air intake through a preheater,
c is preheated air,
d is gas exit
e is possibility to mix fresh cold air in
f is normal nozzle
g is substitute nozzle (no idea why can be used instead of nozzle f…maybee here can be introduced glowing or burning stuff for start up when hopper is full, or for sticking away clinkers?)
h is grate
i is inspection port
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some days ago we cutted the stove wood for next winter (probably will come again…), so we tried to add steam from water cooled nozzle to primary air…on the foto suction is controlled by a flame
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Giorgio, in a topic on this forum some time ago I wrote how it would be ideal to humidify the air for a charcoal gasifier (unfortunately I can’t find this post now).
Dry air has the property of accepting different amounts of water depending on its temperature, well, as far as I remember and how accurate my calculation is, the ideal humidified air would be air with a temperature of about 80°C to the dew point, that is, if we pass the air through water with such a temperature, it warms up and humidifies so much, it would be interesting and easy to do this with a water-cooled engine.
There is another fairly simple solution, similar to the method we use to condense excess water in a wood gasifier, except that here the water would be evaporated and thus create a humid atmosphere inside, it would work according to the method, higher load - higher temperature - greater evaporation and vice versa.
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