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Dodge V10 hauling hay with woodgas.Keith gasifier system Santa-Go, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd.. A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion ...
Trucks, buses, tractors, motorcycles, ships, and trains were equipped with a wood gasification unit. In 1942, when wood gas had not yet reached the height of its popularity, there were about 73,000 wood gas vehicles in Sweden, [3] 65,000 in France, 10,000 in Denmark, and almost 8,000 in Switzerland. In 1944, Finland had 43,000 "woodmobiles", of ...
A 1953 Opel Blitz chassis cab truck. The first post-war designed Blitz in 1952 had the same cabin as the Chevrolet Advance Design, albeit with a different front end and coupled with the pre-war chassis, alongside a more economical Opel engine. The new 1.75 ton truck was offered with a van and pickup body. The new model retained the pre-war ...
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By 1945 there were trucks, buses and agricultural machines that were powered by gasification. It is estimated that there were close to 9,000,000 vehicles running on producer gas all over the world. Another example, the Xe than (literally, "coal car" in Vietnamese) was a minibus that has been converted to run on coal instead of gasoline.
The chemical composition of syngas varies based on the raw materials and the processes. Syngas produced by coal gasification generally is a mixture of 30 to 60% carbon monoxide, 25 to 30% hydrogen, 5 to 15% carbon dioxide, and 0 to 5% methane. It also contains lesser amount of other gases. [10]
Outdoor wood gasification boilers can burn between 30% - 50% less fuel than its traditional counterpart. Outdoor wood boilers are a topic of environmental controversy. [ 5 ] An improperly used or built outdoor wood boiler can produce wood smoke with excessive unburned particulate matter , but when properly burned, studies show that burning wood ...
An increasingly popular alternative is the wood gasification boiler, which burns wood at very high efficiencies (85-91%) and can be placed indoors or in an outbuilding. There are numerous ways to process wood fuel, and wood is still used today for cooking in many places, either in a stove or an open fire.