On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:09:34 -0500, Greg wrote in message <C93DF5DAD19245B89B708EC129393648@a31new>: > > Jason Stewart > > Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 3:39 PM > > > > A thought occurred to me overnight as I contemplated building a > > gasifier for a car. > > > > I know of people that used waster Avtur to run their car by using > > a vapouriser, after first warming it up on petrol. Could this also > > be done with pyrolysis oil? > > > > Regard > > Jason > > IF, and ONLY IF, you where to clean the engine's intake and related > components on a VERY regular basis (every 2 to 3 days say), AND, if > you shutdown ON GASOLINE (eg: last 20 miles of driving). > Theoretically, it could be done. > > Pyrolysis oil IS the very thing we do NOT want a gasifier producing, > simply because it's "TAR" and that is what bends intake valves or > pushrods, OR worse, sends a stuck valve through the top of a > piston....... > > Greg Manning
..might work with new materials and lubricants, e.g. diamond composites replacing steel and graphite or molybdenum sulphide type lubes allowing 4 digit operational temperatures, such engines would also work with wood gas taken raw 'n hot right out of the gasifiers reduction zone. ;o) ..expensive, yes, like building a Boeing 787 787 years ago. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
