Wood Gas Generator
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Jeff,
I have a lot of acreage we are clearing and hate just piling up the wood to be burnt as waste.
I have a large chipper and would like to instead chip the wood and store it for use in a wood gas setup to power a gas generator (25KW) to power the main home and out buildings. Everywhere I look there is a lot of information on wood gas but nothing much on using it with a gas generator. We really only need 8KW but with peak draws and lower output from the wood gas vs real gas I would prefer to be a little oversized.
Any info you can throw my way would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Bart Young
Kentucky
Bart,
The reason you are having problems finding information is this is a very complex process to setup and very costly to oeprate and maintain. Most successful systems are large scale with large gasifiers and generators.
Here are a few links to help you get started:
Hope this helps,
Jeff Yago
