Arnt,
It looks like "Shell" had a monpoly in Finland at that time!
They still are here, but not for long.... I think ST1 as buying their
business in Finland...
Would it just be the woodgas that is run through the compressor (I think
its a Rootes blower supercharger shown rather than a turbo) or
the woodgas and air mix?
Air is mixed before the mechanical charger.
.must be the air and gas mix, to match gasoline power, these Finns
supercharge that truck by at least 1/3 of ambient air pressure to
about 4/3 of ambient air pressure.
I think you oare right !
Olli, the sigar smoking professor is professor Kyrklund?
I beleive so....
Olli
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Turbocharged wood power from 1938
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:57:16 +0100, Ken wrote in message
<[email protected]>:
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?
..must be the air and gas mix, to match gasoline power, these Finns
supercharge that truck by at least 1/3 of ambient air pressure to
about 4/3 of ambient air pressure.
..Olli, the sigar smoking professor is professor Kyrklund?
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.
..try a turbocharger on it:
http://www.utterpower.com/Andree.htm
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
>
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