Making wood gas using my Wood Gasifier. Introducing my Imbert Gasifier Part 1

Did you make a 3rd video? If so, where can i find it?

Hi from Redhill, Surrey. Great videos, I will email you shortly.

This is my next project in the backyard. It is so logical, and it's funny how all the preppers were doing this 10 years ago on TV as people snickered in the background. I always knew they'd have the last laugh. OK, I had no idea how close we are to Walking Dead type of lawlessness...

you seem to have no throat or hearth in your reactor (burner). have you read the literature on throat diameter versus flow rate? this is the heart of wood gas production - you have to maintain the temperature for pyrolysis, high enough to crack all the tars, and, without a throat to entrain the air for pyrolosis, it will spread out, and will not get hot enough. i think, or am i just not seeing the constricted reduction zone you mention?

Nice job. Flame looks good. I also built a Flash001usa type gasifier. I'm just getting ready to fire up a wood processing machine to make consistent size cubes out of logs. Video coming soon. Thanks for the show. Joe

So could one use a large scale charcoal production kiln and capture the gas produced as fuel for the kiln ?

This is a very informative video. A follow-up on this would be great.

Nicely done.
Also consider wet/ water filter.

Very informative video. Thanks for sharing 🙏 🙏

I did not spot an explosion release cover on the filter can, as well there needs to be adequate release points throughout. I jump through vids quick, but I do know at least one guy in modern age of W-G got himself killed by a tank explosion. The problem is always at potential, if you have any leaks after the hot spot then there can be air getting in that makes a bomb-mixture in some tank or tube. Some kind of cap on a chain that blows out quick is needed, adequate to release the shredding pressure.

with all those piles of wood in the background i can see why you’re so happy with your project. so much fuel!

Howdy, would using a fresnel lens and metal plate be a feasible way to dry the wood chips faster?

Where can we find plans for

What a great video from a nice Chap too? First time I’ve seen an Englishman doing one,
usually from Eastern Europe or the states I’m interested and will fabricate gasification setup some time soon. After seeing many videos on truck powered gasifiers I’m still collecting as much info before starting. I don’t know what DVLA will make of it, as far as I know there are no wood gas vehicles here in UK?

Looks great! I'm building one right now. I wonder if your radiator is large enough and is maybe that's why the flame is so orange? Mine is 6ft tall 2" pvc pipes, I watched Flash001's vids too lol. 😎 Will you be using the tri-filter too?

Nice project, thanks for sharing, what material did you use for filtration?

I'm learning too I got to finish mine .I see when gas leaves small lp tank and goes in radiator and at bottom it looks like it is same level when going in filter may let it go up a foot then go into filter. Just thinking

I would keep top shut don't want in fire jumping out maybe put gasification system away from wood :)

Awesome looking great keep moving forward you can do it.

Glad to see you doing arun up.

Hi!
Thank you for interesting stuff. I am working with making a wood-gasifier, and wonder if you can give me a hint on which kind of air-fan you use?
Best regards from Norway.
OBH

I am starting the same thing, ran into this video

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Hi is it possible to gasify diesel cars? Or is it just petrol?

Do you put something inside your abs pipes (your filter)?

Hi could you please let me know the bilge pump details thank you

Very nice video. I would like to see how you designed your condenser.

Wow :) I would have been proud if my first attempt would have been that successful :) Nice build.
Have you ever considered using a column with electrostatic precipitators? I use 4 of these in a row and it works like a charm. Invisible gas (no smoke) with a slight woody odor.

Don't put anything other than gas with a perfectly blue flame through an engine.
You'll get away with using dirty gas for a short while, but soon you'll be stripping the engine to clear out the tar. Any yellow in the flame is some form of un-burned carbon, which will deposit in the engine.
Ultimately, a diesel engine will be more forgiving of dirty gas - and it will happily eat waste oil too.

thank you for the video, will subscribe to and follow your channel for wood gasifier videos.

Glad I found this. Have been planning on building one myself. So far I've bought a book n watched dozens of videos lol. I do work 80-100 hours a week so time isn't really on my side.

Very good build , but you buy tge wring generator in a previous vid.
Diesel engine, not great .
Petrol engine your only man for gasifier .

can you use plastic instead of wood?

Woodgas does not burn "blue" A gasifier does not and will not make pure H2 there will always be other chains attached too it. Generally H2S will be produced. CO will give you a brilliant blue flare color, the only way you will ever see H2 burn blue is in a lab not at your gasifier. If you are only seeing a blue flare then you are not producing hydrogen and is mostly CO. Generally H2 will burn an orange color and you may note a fluffy appearance in the flare. This is the water being produced as it burns causing this. CH4 will give the flare a violet or pink color. A good healthy wood gas flare will have a blue base but turning to a pink / violet color with some orange. This is what you want to see. A blue flare is weak gas.

If you add some charcoal 30 to 50% this will help boost your internal temps and crack the excessive water a raw wood fuel gasifier creates. The charcoal will also react with steam produced at the oxidation levels. You can test this by simply noting how much condensate you create verses non charcoal mixed fuel. Less condensate means you are creating higher water shift to H2.

Gasifiers are awesome but with out a carbon capture system its worse for the environment than burning gasoline. Your not just burning hydrogen... There is a decent amount of hydrocarbons being produced via pyrolysis of wood. When Hydrocarbons go in to the atmosphere they get bombarded with radiation from our sun and break apart in to co2. When co2 is created in the higher layers of the atmosphere trees can't reach it to use it for energy so it just stays absorbing heat.

surprised you didn't use the biochar for a filter

Great video! Glad to see some modern gasifier videos! After you do get a generator running off of the gas you shoudl try to figure out the efficiency of the gasifier!

Looks great, finally started my own using flash 001 and Mr teslonian ideas both clever fella,s keep up the work and please more vdos

My ignorance of this process will surely show. Will this contraption be directly connected to the engine? if so, how will the overflow gas be dealt with? If it's not connected to the engine, how will you store the gas you produce? And how's the vineyard coming along?

Ben Peterson, has great books with detailed plans “ Wood gasifier Builders Bible “ you can buy online

And how is your wineyard? :) No updates since April.

What a beautiful clean build! Looking forward to your next video!

Saw someone using a water scrubber, think it was just pouring in at the top and splashing down on sink strainers. Maybe you’ve seen that? In fact it may have been flash that did it. I can’t remember.

Don't worry to much on flare color, if it is just a haze and not smokey then it is plenty clean. You can see in several of my videos I don't care about the color of the flair at all, if it's a nice haze it is ready to run the engine just fine

One video I would like to see done on wood gas electric generation: The condition of the engine after running for several hundred hours. As you point out, the tars are more or less removed, and the gas is cooled and filtered. How does the best possible quality wood gas affect the life of the engine? Do they need to be torn down and cleaned anymore than a gas fueled engine? I would like to believe they run as clean or even cleaner than gas fueled engines.

As far as gas cleanliness is concerned, when not lit if it only looks a little hazy it is plenty clean to run an engine safely. Colors themselves can be an indicator but I don't stress too much over color.

Do you have a condensing/monorator hopper? It would allow you to dry the wood as it's in the hopper, steam from the rising heat will condense on the cool walls and go into a gutter ring leading to a container outside the gasifier.

You could make one that bolts onto your existing unit if you don't have one.

Also if you have a few extra bilge blowers connected to each other it will get warmed up a bit faster.

I can’t hear it well enough.
Why can’t they record at FULL VOLUME! Because we can always turn it down; but we cannot turn the volume up if you record at a whisper.
The sad part is, that I would really like to know about this ‘gasifier’

Is there enough wood available to do this at scale? Seems really complicated.