Simple biochar making gasifier
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Hi! Is there a working drawing available for this? Would be nice to reproduce this right.
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very nice work!
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That is NOT a gasifier. THAT is an overly elaborate and inefficient wood burning stove.
Youtube search this:
MAKING BIOCHAR: with Peter Hirst of New England Biochar
THAT is a gasifier. THAT makes charcoal.
I built a retort stove based on the Hirst design that uses an old water heater tank for the INNER drum. This makes about enough charcoal to fill two 5 gallon buckets per burn. And the charcoal is insanely light and crumbly.
Don't youtube unless you have to.
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@evifj or you could just get the ratio of holes right so there is a natural draft and skip the blower.
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@WDW888 put a blower on the bottom to help push air thru the gasifier
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Thanks for sharing, I set my microwave on fire drying chips. It has been two years and my wife will still will not let me live it down!
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i am in the same situation as you, i can`t get flamable gas. can you help me? project it is in my videos
so you should wait until the flames go out by themselves? i built one just early and it worked sweet, but i put the flames out myself.
nden85 1 year ago
@nden85 You can put it out when the flames stop or slightly before.
theoriginalSkooby 1 year ago
@theoriginalSkooby thanks for the response. do you use water or suffocate it?
nden85 1 year ago
@nden85 I use water.
theoriginalSkooby 1 year ago
i made one from a 20 gallon oil drum and a 6'' stove pipe, but im getting a lot of smoke and i get no flame from the holes at the top of the stove pipe. do i need to vent more?
WDW888 2 years ago
Do you have a lot of ventilation at the bottom? It is hard to say without seeing it. My larger barrel also doesn't run right unless I power feed air at the bottom. Check out my Biochar 2 video and see if it is doing the same thing.
theoriginalSkooby 2 years ago