Re: GAS-L: Re: [biofuel] Re wood gas emissions

2001-10-06 Thread Harmon Seaver
Gavin Gulliver-Goodall wrote: Yes burning on stoves will be just as clean depending on the nozzle design to ensure optimum gas-air mixing. CV of woodgas varies according to fuel, gasifier etc but 4 Mj/kg seems a realistic number from memory Stoichiometric ration with air is about 1:1 where

[biofuel] Re wood gas emissions

2001-10-05 Thread glenne1949
No I don't have the specific info. I do know that Dept of Energy, or perhaps it was ERDA before DOE, did a study though one of their labs on the emissions from simply burning wood. There were, as I recollect, some 18 different toxic emissions, a number of them carcinogenic, in the

Re: [biofuel] Re wood gas emissions

2001-10-05 Thread Harmon Seaver
Thanx, but burning wood and making woodgas are quite a bit different. I guess I need to rephrase my question. I'm building a wood gasifier. Woodgas should be, if I understand it correctly, primarily CO and H2, along with N. And as I recall from reading years ago, the exhaust of an engine