GEK

Gasification of Wood Chip Waste for Domestic Heat and Power - January 2009.
Ken Boak, January 30, 2009

Lister

This is my 1953 6hp Lister diesel Startomatic
generator set installed in the renewable energy
workshop. It supplies heated water and power
to my house. Currently it runs on waste veg oil.

The aim is to run this engine using wood gas
produced from woodchip waste from tree
surgery, plus about 20% veg oil in dual fuel
mode.

Engines have been powered on wood gas for
just over 100 years, with main developments in
Europe and Scandinavia occurring during
wartime fuel shortages in the 1940s.

These pages look at my wood gas project.

Video of Honda Accord with GEK driving
Jim Mason, All Power Labs, Berkeley, CA, January 8, 2009

Here's the video of the first drive of the honda with the modified GEK in the trunk. The drive was around oakland and Berkeley California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyazgRBtq8&eurl=http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert_your_Honda_Accord_to_run_on_trash/&feature=player_embedded

Again the point of this side hopper adaptation of the GEK is to get the gasifier into a more horizontal form factor, which better fits in cars, as well as eliminate the drying loads from the combustion zone.

The architecture here uses the waste heat in the output gas to do the drying. The goal is fuel entering the reactor at 0% moisture, then adding it back in as steam via the preheating "air inlets" to the degree the combustion temps allow.

We also entered the honda in a contest on the DIY site, www.Instructables.com, with a pile of craftsman tools as the award.

Tools are good. We all need more of them. So if you would like, please go vote for us, which is also generally a vote for more gasification in the public eye. the instructable is here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Convert_your_Honda_Accord_to_run_on_trash/

The instructable has a full copy of the GEK gasifier plans and
fabrication/assembly instructions. It also allows downloading them
as a single pdf, which our wiki can't do.

Jim

Frank Shields Demonstrates the Gasifier Experimenter's Kit (GEK)
Tom Miles, August 8, 2008

Frank with GEK at ETHOS Stove Camp 2008

GEK and Burner

Frank Shields demonstrated Jim Mason's Gasifier Experimenter's Kit (GEK) at the ETHOS 2008 Stoves Camp in Cottage Grove, Oregon, August 5-9, 2008. Frank gave the gasifier it's first trials at the Stoves Camp which is held annually at Aprovecho Research Center to train people in making improved cooking stoves for developing countries.(See Biomass Cooking Stoves http://www.bioenergylists.org)