running engines off of smoke
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Originally Posted by 4.9inline6
if anyone knows what to do to make this work...i want one
chris
chris
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Go to the next page of this forum and see the thread "smoke technology???". There's some good websites in there. It's actually not smoke as much as what comes off of a controlled burn of biomass. The trick is to burn wood in a low oxygen atmosphere. This releases hydrogen and methanol that, if you get it right, can plumb right up to a gasoline engine and run it. One day I want to try to build one to hook up to a generator.
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Running engine off of smoke
If I remember right I heard storiesthat the Germans had military vehicles which ran on smoke at the end of the war,their oil supply had been cut off. I seem to remember something about some runing on coal dust. That must have been great for the cylinder walls. Later, Emmett
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Originally Posted by ercaraker
If I remember right I heard storiesthat the Germans had military vehicles which ran on smoke at the end of the war,their oil supply had been cut off. I seem to remember something about some runing on coal dust. That must have been great for the cylinder walls. Later, Emmett
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I was expirementing around a while back and got a 2.5 hp briggs to run off of smoke. The way it is possible is using green wood to create as much smoke as possible you need to use a damper and a valve to controle the arflow into the fire and into the engine. the engines do not put out very much power at all but it is possible end of wwII the germans were running a few of their engines off of smoke when they were on flat ground and would convert back over whent they were fighting or pulling hills they pretty much had a manual valve on teh fuel line to shut he fuel flow off.
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http://www.inetlink.ca/a31ford/cgcmb/
Here's a book on the subject:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/producer/index.html
It seems they were popular anywhere that had gas rationing during WW2.
Here's a book on the subject:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks/producer/index.html
It seems they were popular anywhere that had gas rationing during WW2.
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Originally Posted by ercaraker
If I remember right I heard storiesthat the Germans had military vehicles which ran on smoke at the end of the war,their oil supply had been cut off. I seem to remember something about some runing on coal dust. That must have been great for the cylinder walls. Later, Emmett