Testing A Better Wood Gassifier (Bio Gas Fuel)

In this video I make wood gas bio fuel with a new gassifier design built around continuous production. Check out my sponsor Brilliant for a really fun way to learn! www.Brilliant....
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[@Nighthawkinlight]

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[@jameshargrave8461]

NightHawkInLight this is awesome, storing it would be amazing to and the wood gas could be used to supplement homes burning natural gas for heat

[@dots5641]

A guy named Mr. Teslonian perfected this process and even ran a car off of wood gas! go check him out!

[@tenlittleindians]

Teslonian tried a chain saw off wood gas but I never figured out how it would work without oil injection since it was a two stroke. A more practical application would be a wood powered bicycle! Chinese made four stroke bicycle engine conversion kits are cheap. Convert it to wood gas and see how many miles to the stick you can get! They sold a steam engine bike motor castings set called the Vesuvius, named after the volcano. Look for a picture of one of those to see how they fit a motor and boiler onto a bicycle and you will quickly see your burner is about the size of the boiler they used. That's a parade piece every small town needs; the guy with the wood powered bike!

[@micahk.541]

NightHawkInLight make a motor that runs off of that gas to power a fan for the stove to make it burn hotter

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

NightHawkInLight Global warming? As made by man is a hoax for more big government control friend. Remember WTC 7?

[@Freizeitflugsphaere]

You are such a honest and correct youtuber who creates amazing educational content! No need for clickbait or overexited camera acting! Great channel and great role model for mine!

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Thank you very much!

[@floppydisk4500]

He also has a bird that trusts him, so I know I can too.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

a wholesome dude who actually makes interesting and novel things? i don't know what planet we're living on but i want to stay here.

[@justinw1765]

Agreed. I enjoy his laid back and sincere style.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

the king of random is dying because it was clickbaity shite to begin with. other channels like this, basically videos about making stuff vaguely related to practical applications of science, are booming. Cody's Lab, Beyond The Press, AvE, etc.

[@whuzzzup]

You are the only channel where I watch the ads - to see your bird.

[@DolphinDestroyer]

When you want to show the inside of something without risking your lens, try using a mirror :^)

[@MrFmiller]

The arrangement is ingenious, perhaps the simplest most elegant feed and clearing design I have ever seen. Most designs require disassembly or a door to remove the char. Heat distortion in designs using a door and resulting inefficient sealing is problematic. Feeding the char directly into the burn chamber while operating reduces the heating cycle to a minimal duration, immediately igniting the char to contribute to the cycle, and wastes very little fuel in the process. In addition the tar drains into the burn chamber providing additional fuel and potentially reducing undesirable waste byproducts. The rocket stove design is perhaps the most efficient and lends itself well for the application. There are a couple of improvements that could be made. One improvement might be a grate or screen for the ash to fall through to a lower chamber for easy removal. Most designs use a shaker to facilitate ash removal. If the combustion is hot enough and the grate designed with sufficient space white ash passes without the need for mechanical assistance. I suspect the flame is being retarded by the envelope of fumes and smoke from the lower chamber depriving the tube of oxygen. Bending the tube to position the burn away from the top of the burn chamber would solve the problem. Another improvement would be a carbeurator similar to ones found on propane stoves to suck additional air into the stream. I've built a couple of gassifiers that were relatively successful but your design provides significant improvements that overcome inherent detrimental characteristics. I think I'll borrow your basic design and build another one with the above improvements . Thanks.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Really great ideas. Especially for clearing the ash.

[@Macdaddi69420]

Take the wood gas and filter it and store it for later use. Find a way to separate out its liquid components by having a drain tube at the bottom for the wood oil to condense into. Now distill it with the same heat coming from the charcoal. If you are using pine wood you will wind up with rosin which has many uses for paints and finishes and the liquid distilled from the wood oil is turpentine which runs perfectly fine in diesel engines a 100% straight substitute. The liquid from the wood gas that can settled out is a low grade gasoline or a white gasoline similar to orange oil from orange peels. The process is very green but isn't cost effective for today's market but is a great experiment and a great option for those with lots of land with pines who love to play and tinker in self sustainability a small scale. Keep up the great work.

[@jeffmccrea9347]

I had a few suggestions as follows: @jeffmccrea9347 0 seconds ago Just a thought. If you want to keep your smoke stack burning, try drilling some SMALL holes at an upward angle near the top end to carburate air into the gas stream like is done in a natural gas stove, heater ect. Start with a couple of small holes at first then try it out. You don't want the mixture too lean to burn. If necessary, drill more holes, ONE AT A TIME until you get satisfactory results. Another thought. Take a coil of copper tubing in an upright position and connect it to your stack with a smooth 180 degree curve. This will condense your tar etc. out of the gas and clean it up some. It will work like a moonshine still. It has to be upright so the tar doesn't collect at the bottom of a horizontal coil and clog the system. If you're really feeling froggy, acquire a used, working automotive A/C compressor. Connect it with a belt to an AC motor or small gas engine and see if you can pump / compress your wood gas into something like a propane tank for later use. Just be sure there is still oil in the compressor if you get it from a questionable source like a junk yard. Without oil, just like an engine, it will seize during operation. You will need a stout 12 VDC source like a battery or charger with at least a 10 or 15 amp output to energize the electric clutch for proper operation. I wouldn't advise bolting the clutch as you can knock it off balance causing major vibration problems. I don't know if a compressor from a refrigerator would work but if you have one laying around, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. In either case, the compressor MUST remain upright at ALL times so as to not drain the oil out of it. The only hitches I can think of with using a compressor is: 1) Designing or acquiring a moisture trap like the one's used on air compressors or diesel fuel lines to keep water, or in your case, tar out of the system. 2) Your gasifier will need to be air tight and not just depend on a heavy socket for a seal. With a compressor drawing a vacuum on your gas chamber, it will suck more air than gas without a good seal. Good luck with your endeavors. Jeff M.

[@rianmach9043]

You could put a bubbler on the end of the gas outlet so it’d clean it more effectively, and a valve so you could monitor its output

[@neildmd]

Love this project! You can even use the charcoal to make a carbon filter to clean up the gas before storage.

[@samuelcooley9102]

Hey Ben, thanks for the continuing to put out the amazing videos. I love the way you take older technologies and show people how they still can be used. I don't have any deep insight into how to improve the design but instead just a word of encouragement. I'll always tune in for your videos. Thanks

[@doctorzoidberg1715]

I believe in ww2 Germany (due to lack of oil) began to experiment with alternative fuel sources. Wood gas was one of them (you might have mentioned this already)

[@d.j.9961]

Keep in mind that I just found wood gasifier tech very recently! (lastnight) Along with other youtuber's, I see much bigger gasifier's being built with bigger steel tubes, cylinder's, & barrels & burning in say a "upper container" while passing forced air into the mix along with vent tubes just to allow some oxygen in when needed & capped when not needed, then directed out & threw tubing which seems to benefit from a radiator style cooling period to achieve a cooler smoke & I've seen water filtration devices to collect all the tar/ oil. Many people/(a handful) of people have some awesome gasifier video's online & your channel is one of them! Keep up the great work & keep on spreading the news & HOPEFULLY WE CAN MOVE AWAY FROM UTILITY COMPANIES & FORIEGN OIL ASAP!!! Also, Maybe WE CAN BREAK FREE OF FALSE FLAG ATTACKS IF PEOPLE STOP ALLOWING POLITICIANS TO PASS LAW'S BASED ON FEAR/RESTRICTING OUR LIBERTY & ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO OUR UNALIENABLE RIGHTS LIKE THE 2ND AMMENDMENT, OUR RIGHT TO TRAVEL UNIMPEDED, & LAW ENFORCEMENT HARRASSING CITIZEN'S WHEN NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED WITH "CODE ENFORCEMENT" & SILENT SUBVERSION WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT HIRED LOBBYIST TO PETITION LAWMAKER'S TO AMMEND DRIVING LAW'S ALLOWING LAW ENFORCEMENT TO CHANGE THE ORIGINAL LAW'S UNTIL THEY NO LONGER MENTIONED "TRAVEL & TRAVELLER'S WHICH ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED! (A) DEVELOPE THE DMV, dmv in an act of commerce sells people a "priviledge to drive" becoming a "for commerce driver" similar to a taxi-driver, semi-driver, INSTEAD OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN SIMPLY TRAVELLING IN THEIR PRIVATE CONVEYANCE which is constitutionally protected!(B) AUTOMAKERS SILENTLY SEND EVERYONE'S (MSO) "MANUFACTURER'S STATEMENT OF ORIGIN" to the dmv & people are left to assume that they need permission to travel unimpeded! Keep in mind that the 1st act of fraud is, signing people up as "AMERICAN CITIZEN'S" WHEN YOU HAVE MANY MORE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AS A "STATE CITEZEN'S" BECAUSE ONLY STATE CITIZEN'S HAVE SPECIFIC RIGHT'S! The 2nd fraud is when parents sign their kids up as "AMERICAN CITIZEN'S" INSTED OF "STATE CITIZEN'S" OF WHICHEVER STATE YOU WERE BORN & THEN THE 3rd fraud is assuming that one needs permission/permit to travel, & goes to a dmv to get signed up as a "for commerce driver" NOTICE IN ALL OLD RECORDINGS FROM THE EARLY 1900'S AUTOMOBILE'S DID NOT HAVE PLATES ON THEM! Law enforcement offered free plates to more easily spot a stolen automobile & soon, Many people assumed they needed to have plates & so many people requested a plate so, Law enforcement started the dmv & thus, the fraud began! That is why today, it is common to see an officer stop & charge a citizen with a code enfraction when there is NO VICTIM SO, THERE IS NO CRIME YET, THEY GET A CODE ENFRACTION THAT IS MEANT FOR A FOR COMMERCE/ COMMERCIAL DRIVER ONLY, NOT A CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED TRAVELLER! That was the reason for the fraud! I do hope people wake up to the biggest scam on society & look how many lives have been lost due to it & how much property has been taken! If you want to look it up, check out-U.S.Supreme court states no license required to drive-wearechange...driving vs travelling... also, & most importantly, on youtube,- High Frequency Radio! The man is a genius when it comes to law & both Constitution's, YES THERE ARE TWO! 2 SETS OF RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ECM398]

You should bubble the gas through a longish column of water (maybe like .5-1m tall). That should condsense all or most of the tar youre getting from the wood.

[@ECM398]

a mega bong

[@revimfadli4666]

What about a spiral tube filled with water?

[@NM-wd7kx]

@@revimfadli4666 that should work too, though you could risk clogging the narrower bore

[@revimfadli4666]

@@NM-wd7kx or use a wider tube filled with a screw-shaped spiral made out of a plate or similar

[@JustinDrentlaw]

Dude, you are legit. I first got interested in wood gas when Colin Furze made a wood gas lawn mower. (Coincidentally, that was the very first Furze video I ever saw. Now I've pretty much seen them all.) It's a really fascinating subject. Keep up the good work!

[@KKun10]

I loved to see the evolution of your project and how you redesigned the whole thing so efficiently!! Learned so many things. Great video as always! Cheers from Italy

[@Kbrusky15]

Your videos are inspiring and SOLID. Thank you for being a great teacher!

[@notirishrider7953]

I wonder. Has anyone ever tried doing this using heat from something like a big magnifiying glass? i seen them light pieces of wood on fire so i bet its more than hot enough. Than way you get charcoal and wood gass without burning any wood in the process :) Obviously sun is not something we have 24/7 but even if you can use it 35% of the days in a year that is still a 35% increase in efficency which is huge.

[@sheikhraeikhwan2005]

my thought too...will we get the same result if only we heat it without burn it with fire?

[@laurenceperkins7468]

It's called a "solar furnace" and if you have space to build a big enough one you can set things like steel on fire... Only limitations really are that you can't heat anything hotter than the surface temperature of the sun, and you only get an average of around 2HP per square foot of collector depending on lattitude and weather.

[@GrowingAnswers]

I love how you put effort into creating quality content and not spam your channel. That design is genius. Nice job!

[@dagoonite]

I've been working on my own design that addresses these same issues ever since the last video... and of course you not only beat me to it but come up with a much more elegant and simple method.

[@Denver_Risley]

I've really enjoyed watching your series on this subject. This is really going to come in handy when commercial fuel becomes to expensive to be practical.

[@pyr666]

flair the end of the exit pipe if you want a sustainable flame. fire has a set speed it can move, so you need to slow the gasses.

[@wesleyofficer1237]

The first thing I think is MAN THAT SO SIMPLE but it accomplishes so much all at once! The second thing I think is, please be careful not to breath that rocket stove smoke if that Steel pipe is GALVANIZED. Great stuff as always, it's nice to watch someone else tinker, because we can each only afford so much time and money for our own experiments. 👍

[@Rpgamer50]

I agree with most of the comments you are good at this. Don't stop

[@ragingwillie483]

THANK YOU!! the way you so honestly, and so matter of fact, show that inventing and fabricating take a certain amount of trial and error. as well as not always successful on first attempt. very important aspect of learning.

[@TheKingofRandom]

You're the man 😎👍

[@slink2070]

The King of Random omg no u

[@hayesjohnson2027]

Every comment was ❤️ until ur comment 🤔😁

[@greenthizzle4]

here to steal ideas?

[@SKATEBAIT47]

The King of Random My man Grant finna beat the case in court 💯💯💯 fuck the feds

[@greenthizzle4]

Head Like A Fucking Orange haha he gonna beat his meat in jail.. no jk, and I agree fuck em.

[@russianhabibi3723]

We need more videos on wood gas! Your style of gasifier is refreshing and easy to follow

[@sassageflair257]

I love the attention to your carbon footprint, people like you are going to lead us to a better future for our children, thank you.

[@IagoPereira]

Man, I gotta say this, Ive been following your work for a while now, and you are truly an impressive human being.

[@jonathananderson1728]

If you slightly krimp the end of the biofule exhaust it might sustain the flame longer

[@greenthizzle4]

Jonathan Anderson it needs oxygen, crimping it won't do much I don't think.. he needs a breather hole in the pipe like a blowtorch nozzle

[@pauljs75]

A good percentage of that is steam, and that's likely what is blowing the fire out. Needs to bubble through a water tank to condense/separate it out, the remaining gas can then be collected and should burn much better.

[@kiyoponnn]

All crimping will is increase the presssure of the gas

[@mcmh9523]

Your profile pic...

[@fxphenix5162]

Can you please explain why that is Jonathan, plz, thanks

[@discardedink5994]

Hey NightHawkInLight did you know that you can also collect gasoline or crude oil if you distill or condense and collect the ”tar”... Hope the info helps if you need any references look up biocrude or documentaries about turning plastic into gasoline

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I've tried converting plastic before but did not get it hot enough. That might be a really good thing to try again with this setup. Thanks for the ideas

[@discardedink5994]

NightHawkInLight. yeah man, no problem. im glad i could help. Nice project & Stay Awesome bro ✌👍🔥

[@discardedink5994]

NightHawkInLight ... you know in theory you could make a pyrolysis Distillery with a series of condensers and collection tanks running on methane gas from a fecal matter biogas reactor and literally be self-sufficient for electricity harvesting gasoline and syngas from garbage cans and all the while also having a great mass of methane to boot hahah I don't know if this is ingenious or just genius but I love this idea 😂

[@luciusirving5926]

@@discardedink5994 Speaking of biogas, I will need to move to a warm countryside to build the biodigester.

[@discountovid8325]

@@Nighthawkinlight plasma arc waste disposal produces syngas and slag as the product. From what I understand it will break down anything short of nuclear waste. generator, plasma cutter, likely a gasometer feeding syngas back to the generator once the process is started. And kiln brick or vermiculite.

[@Dardomor]

Hi there! Very much looking forward to what you come up with for collecting the wood gas! I was actually thinking the other way around: I'll build a setup for making charcoal, but how to better use the wood gas from it, instead of just directing it into the charcoal furnace flame. I love your demonstrations and experiment and especially the way you explain and show everything. Thank you very much for sharing! 😃

[@tylercerlich8370]

I love your bird at the end

[@basyoni95]

Such a neat design, what I like is your reaction when it produced gas instantly, seeing you getting excited was really fun.

[@noahpierce4746]

I’d like to see you make a filtration system, and a production system large enough to run a small engine.

[@The2x4]

Go check out Colin Furze. He built one on his lawnmower, and can actually mow his lawn with it.

[@CNCmachiningisfun]

Nice video :) . Engines run very well on this gas. I have accumulated over 1500 hours of engine runtime with woodgas.

[@Benjamin-du6kr]

That is a pretty sweet set up you have there looks very efficient to me.

[@DomingosMultichannel]

Your Videos inspire me everytime i see them. i love it to see your work and what amount of lifeblood you dedicate to it.

[@electronicsNmore]

Great video! Mr Teslonian is into this stuff.

[@Gambino85]

Everyone needs one of these. Especially off the grid folks. This is phenomenal stuff. I really wanna have a setup where I can try all of this. Thanks for the uploads

[@LANCEL0T]

That bird made me watch through the sponsor ad. You should make something for your bird, i would enjoy watching it.

[@ThistlesGarden]

I love seeing you revisit an old project now that you have more experience and knowledge and do it better. Awesome to see!

[@rltcgf]

hey, I found a way you can make it more efficient. If you also want to keep the charcoal, what you could do is use this design and put the fire above the charcoal outlet. by this the charcoal will collect under a platform on which the fire is burning. The downside of this is probably that you will need to keep adding fuel.

[@Gun4Freedom]

You would need to make the charcoal collector mostly air tight, and likely want to prefill it with co2 or some other inert gas, as when the charcoal gets dumped while hot, it will immediately ignite if exposed to oxygen. It could certainly be done though. If you ran the gasifier vessel through a hole in the bottom of the rocket stove, into a steel drum underneath, with a short length to allow it to be raised and still maintain a seal while the charcoal gets dumped, that would work. You could also route some of the stove exhaust into the drum, with a small pump and valve on the top, to flush oxygen out of it, which you could verify with an oxygen sensor from a cheap obd2 car exhaust. You could route the sensor to a multimeter, or if you wanted to be fancy, a raspberry pi or old cell phone would do, as long as you could code the input, or adapt some other app to display the readout.

[@rltcgf]

Thank you! These were some aspects I didnt think through yet. If I can find the resources, I might try various of the possibilities on collecting the charcoal and the gas. I'll mention it if I have an update.

[@NinoJoel]

That's a nice idea... Especially if you could use the tar

[@sgibbons77]

Excellent and well-thought out design - I was very happy to see it work the way you envisioned! Another excellent video, thank you!!

[@Advoko]

Ben, do you think you could power a generator with wood gas in a pinch? I've read a comment under my video on tar distellery that you could...

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I tried running an engine in another video and it sort of worked, but it's harder than you would think. Normal carburetors aren't made to work with non liquid fuels. The channel MrTeslonian has had much more success than I have. I believe he has a truck that runs on woodgas, and several other small engines.

[@Advoko]

@@Nighthawkinlight Thank you for the link. Yes, that was my thought exactly: "...it's harder than you would think"... Just watched the video! Fascinating

[@El-Burrito]

There used to be a reality TV show called "The Colony" where they did just that. Some TV-magic may have been invovled though but it seems doable.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Could a steam engine work for this? I don't know a lot about it, but it seems like it at least should be a bit more flexible for fuel.

[@Raven_Leblanc]

I'm really excited about this! by tweaking the production with some processes, the gas could be cleaned, stored or even compressed into making it a viable and durable fuel. I think this might be taking a possible step into the future, or at least give us some knowhow for it. Awesome job!

[@bophadesnutz3313]

How to get people to actually watch your sponsor shoutouts: cute birds

[@bokchoiman]

Thats...one way of keeping people watching til the end. God that parrot is adorable!

[@Blakehx]

Wow, very cleverI I was pretty skeptical when you first started talking about your design (wishful thinking I said) but as usual you prove yourself much smarter than me! How easy or possible is it to compress/store wood gas?

[@Nighthawkinlight]

It's usually very easy to pressurize it because it comes out of the reaction vessel at pressure. But with this design I don't know if that will be the case with the ends only lightly sealed. There are other methods I will be making a video about

[@Dordien]

Your videos made me interested in the concept of making wood gas and charcoal and it's very interesting! And I was thinking about storing the gas since your last vide with the water tank with a valve. I think you'd need to purify the output as much as possible to be able to pressurize it with like a compressor as to not to clog it with solids that are suspended in the smoke. So I guess a long or a double water bubbler, maybe some wood chips first and charcoal filter at the very end?

[@THEGLASSMANSWORLD]

Amazing!!! You simplified it so much!!! Not much welding compared to all other gasifiers! Frickin brilliant!!

[@derexplo3058]

that bird is sooooo cute! Good video!

[@arjovenzia]

Nice vid dude. Your vids often trigger an 'oh i *need* that in my life', n set me a building. Often from whats in reach. Plasma coil launcher was my favourite. This has done a similar thing. Love the design, well executed vid, and something im sorta playing with similar things. Thanks man, keep it up

[@synkstar9921]

You should put a bubblier filter and a activated carbon filter to make the wood gas much more pure. So, you can run an engine or sustain a flame a lot better

[@williamiannucci2740]

You are an awesome person it must be written in your DNA . And your a great instructor at that young fellow . God bless you, and thanks.

[@yaseralam3741]

Sick vape

[@jackh1577]

Smoke trees everyday

[@TheVigilantStewards]

lol!!!!!!

[@DaddyDaGuido]

Awesome video. I didn't realize it until I saw this, but I've made wood gas, or something similar, by making charcloth. I wasn't aware that the gas coming off of wood were also flammable. Also that conure is big cute, I've never seen one that had a black head like that

[@bhinkle530]

I think your socket should be ok as long as it didnt get above a purple color. That dark gold/bronze color means it got to about 500F which is generally lower than the tempering temp of most tool steels.

[@Nighthawkinlight]

I doubt craftsman actually uses tool steel for sockets anyway. Probably just some middle of the road carbon steel. I'm sure it's fine

[@biggyboablo]

Great video. Apparently it's possible to produce methane gas from wood using platinum group catalysts, with a conversion rate of above 80% but of course this process was sold and patented by the highest bidder. It's great to see someone doing honest research on biofuels without any strings attached.

[@aga5897]

Beautifully simple design. Nice one !

[@edreusser4741]

If one used a timer, and a few selenoid valves and when the timer fires, it closes off the gas production and creates a lifting force to dump the coal into the bottom automatically, then all you need is a feeder mechanism for pellets and you have a continuous gas production system. The gas at the end of the pipe needs to be sent through a water cleaner and cooled with some sort of copper coil and well... I see you have the basis of an amazingly cool system. It is unclear to me the best way to empty out the bottom, but lowering the little bottom cup/sealer would be far more efficient than raising the tube. In my opinion the idea you have of using the byproducts of the reaction (tar) to seal the valves is the key idea here. This entire system is entirely brilliant and you should be very proud to have come up with it.

[@midnightmuffin7303]

Love your videos u have taught me a lot

[@eatmydust1716]

Favorite channel for the past 3 years

[@brandsmablacksmith7059]

Can you make a video on how to store it for later use? edit; Storing the woodgas, not the stove🙂

[@Nighthawkinlight]

Yep, I'm planning on it.

[@akashmukherjee2405]

NightHawkInLight and today he has done it....

[@shaunemicheal7362]

Perhaps use an old tire tube? Add a small copper pipe with a valve after removing the Schrader valve from the valve stem. You could even use the inner tube to slightly pressurize the gases.

[@kody8062]

Love the channel. You dont repeat things and stretch it to the 10 min mark and its really enjoyable content. +1 sub

[@tp6335]

If you could somehow use a big parabolic mirror or a big lens in stead of a fire to heat the reactor it would be a much more fuel efficient way to make the wood gas

[@DoItProjects]

I've been involved with high efficient cookstove projects overseas a number of times and seen a lot of different ways to use woodgas for cooking applications. I find your approach to making woodgas and biochar fascinating! Keep up the good content and projects. I'll be doing a few of my own biomass cookstove videos soon on my channel. It'll be for cooking mostly, but similar.

[@wachout4life]

you need to add a water filter to the smoke. Not only will the gas be more pure for storage and use, but it will stay burning if you light the exiting gas.

[@MPRiley-rb6lj]

Wonderful. In the plans I was working on the biomass to be converted to charcoal was compressed and vacuum applied to lower the energy and heat needed to begin release of woodgas. I had thoght to have multiple chambers rotating into position like the cylinders on a revolver. The heat above the conversion chamber generating energy powering a pin style compressor for woodgas produced once cooled. The five combustible gasses and water vapor would be drawn out at different levels from the compressed gas storage cylinder. I will search your channel for updates. Thank you.

[@cricketscorner6514]

Need to insulate the outer stove but still great concept. 😎👍

[@utubesgai]

You always have quality content, but the parrot is usually the favorite part of my vids :P

[@SharpWorks]

I would like to see someone figure out a way to store the wood gas so that you don’t need to run a fire whenever you’re using the equipment that runs on wood gas (car, chainsaw, etc.)

[@polyjohn3425]

It's basically just a mix of hydrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. Run it through a longer pipe to let it cool and condense the tar/creosote out of it, and then it can be stored like any other flammable gas. You could even run a compressor off a stirling engine using the heat of the fire.

[@andyd2960]

Very cool. I was thinking about doing one of these for years. I'm thinking of trying to use some old large wood drill bits as an auger in and out of combustion chamber. Pellets, sawdust and wood chips would feed it.

[@f.n.schlub]

Why not just make multiple interchangeable cans for your prior design? Also, you are correct in saying that the charcoal is useful, for many things. So, too, is the tar. Best to make a grate a bit up from the bottoms of your replacement cans so this may be harvested as well. Lastly, if you run your outlet pipe into some water in a sealed tank with an extraction hose at the top, the resulting bubbles of gas will be scrubbed of the smoke soot. The gas can be harvested from above the water in the sealed container and then compressed and pumped into a welding tank to about 2000psi for later use. Remember, if you can use three by-products from the single activity then you are truly economical.

[@alexratschat7753]

I believe the reason its not burning continuously at the moment is the high amount of water vapor in the gas. If you let the gas flow in a water container the water vapor will most likely condense and get filtered out, so you'd have a much better gas quality (maybe check chemistry tools for water based filters, the idea is quite simple but not my field of expertise). Might be worth a try, its easy to realize and could improve the quality a lot (should also filter fine dust particles etc.). Regardless I really like the improvement since your last attempt, keep it up!

[@mathewpoole3589]

Is wood gas once collected and possibly pressurised, efficient enough to power portable generators or better for slow burning lamps like the olde gas lamps of yore?

[@Nighthawkinlight]

It can power gas engines

[@mathewpoole3589]

NightHawkInLight Well I'll be damned. I use to spend a lot of time hiking through the Australian bush for days from point to point. My aim was to always travel light with everything I carried having more then one use with minimal waste. This has given me a few ideas of how to setup a duel functioning stove system. That could be used for water purification, fuel gathering (charcoal) and cooking in a more controlled manner. The gas production has me thinking tho, I'll have to look into a way to collect it for the RV trips to lessen the reliance on the solar panels on the poor weather days. Well done champ

[@PixlRainbow]

Mathew Poole do be warned, although the wood gas can power engines, it cannot be reliably stored and pressurized as it is unstable and prone to explosion due to contaminants (e.g. oxygen inside your container) Additionally, some filtering may be required to make sure the wood gas does not carbonize your piston heads

[@mathewpoole3589]

Pixl Rainbow I gathered it wouldn't be "clean" of contaminants and might require an additional gas of sorts for stable pressurization hence why I was wondering if best suited for lighting lamps over power generation. The main thing I took from this is a system for a controlled small stove that can create its own fuel source without being an open fire. Good for fire hazard regions. With the wood gas collection being an after thought to substitute batteries for lamps and if possible power generation.

[@willc236]

Great video, as always. I’ve been subscribed to your channel ever since I saw your ‘how to make a paper crossbow’ video a few years ago, and your videos and content have only gotten better. I look forward to seeing what you do in your next video, hopefully it’s about how to actually use the wood gas instead of just venting it off.

[@littleship2473]

Does the wood gas also produce tar when burned? If it does it will be hard to use it in an engine. I look forward to seeing you turn the energy from the gas into work. Maby start small with a steam engine though it would be inefficient it is a start. Or try to use it in a small pulse jet. Love the vid and the bird at the end

[@Nighthawkinlight]

No, not when burned. The tar can be filtered out before the gas is stored.

[@Rebecca-fs2rg]

mrteslonian has a video on a wood gas engine

[@Rebecca-fs2rg]

Videos are, my truck runs on firewood and my chainsaw runs on firewood 1&2

[@angelacuna9884]

Thank you NightHawkInLight, Very cool!

[@cvoisineaddis]

Do you think if you had some sort of nozzle like a propane burner or Bunsen burner you could sustain a flame longer?

[@DarkPegasus87]

3:10 - That's a genius little solution; both simple and efficient.

[@ozarkhippie]

You should make a video on storage in a vessel and how to pressurize the gas.

[@felderup]

there's one dude on youtube that runs the gas through a container of water then into a very large plastic bag, he doesn't burn the wood, he heats it on a stove in a metal container.

[@vinnyz627]

I love the honest reaction when it started producing wood gas again

[@garbagewitch1]

you should try powering a small engine with it

[@cutzwithrazzor]

Awesome build, may have to use a design like this when I teach bio fuel class again this fall. Such a easy build that I think can really easily show students how to build and produce bio-gas fast and cheep. Love your projects, just had a student wanting to make an potato cannon. Sent him to you videos for the air valve that you produced in you air cannon video. Keep the good ideas coming.

[@among-us-99999]

You could use it to Produce and distill sodium or potassium.

[@peterinbrat]

My system uses a charcoal starter tube with a 8"-6" chimney reduction fitting inside. The gap is filled with perlite or plaster of Paris which acts as gas kiln to break down the smoke and heat the gases more. There is a half inch gap to bring in air then two more feet of chimney pipe to complete combustion. Ideally, this should also be insulated. You get a clear, sometimes bluish flame with no smoke at all when it comes to temp and it is hot enough to melt aluminum(1220°F). Feed wood from the top and let charcoal fall into a pit or even a pot of water below.

[@shinevisionsv]

Crap, i want a bird now :P

[@ProPyroPower]

Willow really makes a good gas,i got a long flame from that from a small pot,nice vid ben! thumbs up

[@WolfPackGaming66]

You should attempt to make a simple engine powered by the wood gas, and then from there attempt a bigger, better engine, and then attempt to make a small cart

[@abcstardust]

Awesome video! Looks like your system is an efficient way to generate Wood Gas. Thank you for sharing.

[@Taras195]

I see that this design is much more practical to use, but what about airtightness? Aren't you loosing woodgas and pressure through lower and upper parts of your reaction vessel? What about bubbling camera , to clear out, cool down, and collect produced gas? How about creating some kind of blowtorch on this fuel, and then moving to small (then bigger) engine ? Great video, though!

[@shahjee51214]

Hi! I enjoy your videos. Just an idea: Suppose you make a gasification chamber, with 2 trapdoors (one above to feed more wood and one under to dump the charcoal into a chute to quench and collect the charcoal). Then, you pipe the wood gasses through a chamber to condense and collect the lighter volatiles and then pipe the unburnt gasses through a coil (in the firing chamber) and fed back to the burner. And feed fresh wood through a funnel on the trapdoor on top. Just wondering 🤔

[@psychogat3]

would this work with leaves and grass clippings? ive always wanted to figure out a way to make something useful with grass clippings besides compost.

[@zachell1991]

It should if they are dry.

[@mikeguitar9769]

grass clippings make good activated carbon.

[@psychogat3]

that seems like a good idea to try but i feel like it would be really crumbly and dusty and hard to handle

[@mikeguitar9769]

Probably true, so it might need a binder to use for water filtration; however, for a supercapacitor, dust might be good. You could also use it as a filler for some engineered product. You can also make graphitized carbon at a "lower" temperature with a transition metal salt catalyst. Why, what do you want to make? Also why don't you like compost? You can grow anything with it! It's amazing stuff.

[@psychogat3]

i do like compost thats actually what i do with my grass clippings now but ive always wanted to find something else to do with them just out of curiosity. i dont have any specific ideas really.

[@madebyamaury]

Thank you very much for the content you are providing to us, I personally learned a lot of thing watching your videos. Your projects are just beautiful as well as your videos, keep it up ;)

[@flamby357]

it could be interesting to link the output to a spiral of copper tubing in nitrogen like did Cody to liquefy the gas and store it. Sorry for bad english

[@JustOneAsbesto]

You did better than most native English speakers in KZbin comments.

[@greenthizzle4]

JustOneAsbesto haha yeah close to flawless, it's funny how many non native English speakers think they write bad English when its fine

[@flamby357]

JustOneAsbesto thank's lol

[@matthewsolares9407]

i love the genuine excitement in this video!

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I really enjoy your projects! Have you seen the FEMA plans for wood gas powered vehicles? They have interesting notions for continuous feed.

[@Pauls-Welt]

Another great video - greetings from southern Germany 🇩🇪 I’m excited to see what you’ll do with the produced wood gas!

[@lemmonsinmyeyes]

Make it power a power tool like a saw or drill. That would be a very cool 'off the grid' ideas

[@nitt3rz]

This is a very interesting, & well presented video. Side note: it's not just wood you can use; any cellulose based materials will work, like old rags.

[@FunkFPV]

Now you have to make that gas do some kind work.

[@No-pm4ss]

How how I not seen all your bio-fuel videos?! Amazing channel overall!