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Hi guys I have been quite busy these past few months but decided to put up some pics of a little project I threw together one day. It's made out of a large stewed tomato can, a V8 juice can, a soup can and a small computer cooling fan.

If you look up Woodgas or Gasifier in Google you will find a lot of information on these devices. They are truly amazing... You can take pretty much anything organic: wood, leaves, sticks, pine needles, cherry pits, pinecones; just about anything that you'd find in the woods and burn it. The beauty of this little device is that it's burning the woodgas (smoke) at the top of the smoldering fire. Therefore you get far fewer emissions from the unit and far greater heat output.


Lighting it is as simple as lighting some twigs or a match and throwing it into a loose set of combustible material in the inner can. I don't recommend paper as that makes a lot of little ash. You could do it without problem outside if you wanted. The real beauty of this thing is just how cleanly it burned indoors. I used it in my shop for 30 or more minutes and had pretty much no smoke accept when lighting it before the gasses started combusting properly.


Once the gasses catch the thing starts to literally ROAR. It's just a tiny little test unit but I could easily boil water on it in very short order.


Another huge advantage of this unit is that it burns over 99% of the material. This means less mess, more heat delivered per ounce of fuel, more consistent heating throughout the entire burn. There is really no stage where it just starts to smoke and smoulder. It catches and continues to burn very hot and hard, the entire way through.


Because I knew you would like to see the bottom, this is the underside with the bottom of the large can removed. It creates an air chamber that allows air from the fan to be delivered evenly to the upper and lower holes in the inner can. Thus the bottom of the fuel is fed with fresh oxygen and the top where the smoke is, receives another charge of fresh oxygen to ignite the woodgas.

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This Website is Created and Maintained by chris--at--OUPower--dot--com (Fix the address for it to work!)
This Project was last updated on: May 13, 2008 10:45am
v7.01

WARNING! Many, if not all of the projects described within these pages, contain dangerous and potentially fatal consequences if you do not exercise proper precautions and follow standard safety procedures. The owner of this site takes no responsibility for injury sustained by anyone attempting to duplicate or utilize any of the information on this site. The information here is strictly for Educational Purposes! -USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

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