Re: GAS-L: gasifying green wood (fwd)

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

Eric Bruce Johnston wrote:
> 
> I realize now that the moisture in wood cannot produce water-gas (H2 +
> CO) in an updraught gasifier, since the evaporating water will be
> carried away from the hot coals, and not through them.  Imbert appears
> to have taken out a patent on a downdraught gasifier in 1933 - French
> patent #765369 - so it is not clear to me why his firm continued
> making updraught gasifiers.


..???  I thought they only made downdraft gasifiers?

> By the way, I see from the book "Le gazogène à bois Imbert" that in
> Sweden in the early forties there were several hundred motorcycles
> fitted with gazogènes.  There are photographs of them.
> 
> Am still trying to contact the person whose family (name: Chevet)
> built gazogènes.
> 

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