Olli, Thanks for sharing a great clip.
It looks like "Shell" had a monpoly in Finland at that time! Would it just be the woodgas that is run through the compressor (I thinks its a Rootes blower supercharger shown rather than a turbo) or the woodgas and air mix? My limited experiments of running a spark ignition converted diesel engine on woodgas suggest that the output power of the engine improves at higher compression ratios. It the single cylinder Lister engine we converted ar Allpower Labs, we used a compression ratio of about 13.5:1 and intend to do tests at higher ratios right up to the 17:1 supported by the standard Lister CS engine. Compressing the gas/air mixture in the cylinder of a diesel engine to a higher compression ratio is similar in principle to using an external compressor. Hopefully we will have a stationary engine which can be started on diesel or biofuel, and then switch over to woodgas and spark ignition. Ken On 25 September 2010 11:15, Olli Tuovinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=121&t=321&a=2291 > > This clip is from 1938, when also in Finland it appeared that gas would not > be easily available in the future.Wood, however we did have and still have a > lot. > This test demonstrates that the truck motor could give the same motor power > with wood gas as with gas, if the wood gas is comressed with mechanical > turbochager. It is interesting to see, how simple intruments were used for > defining power, pressure difference etc, mostly based on natures of law > insted of comlicated electrical systems as it is today. > > Best regards, > > Olli Tuovinen > _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list [email protected] http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org http://info.bioenergylists.org UNSUBSCRIBE HERE; http://listserv.repp.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_listserv.repp.org
