[TheForge] Wood Gassification heating?

[Bruce Freeman]

I don't know who posted that, nor have I done this myself.  The idea,
however, is a "retort".  A sealed box filled with wood.  Heat it till
the wood begins to carbonize and give off gases.  Now, recycle those
gases to heat the wood.  This would work batch-wise.  You'd have to
unload the charcoal and reload with wood between batches.  Use two
retorts (boxes of wood) and you could maybe go semi-continuous.

Now poison warning:  The gases coming off the wood are highly toxic,
including CO, methanol, and "smoke".  You must keep them out of your
shop.  A good flue might be all that that would take - keeping a
negative pressure on the retort.

Bruce
NJ

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Barnhart
<blakkpawss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I recently saw somebody say something about using a
>  wood gassification style heat setup for their shop.
>  If I remember right they said they could heat their
>  shop off the wood gas and use the charcoal made to
>  fire their forge.  I was just wondering if the guy/gal
>  that posted this could tell me more about how it's
>  setup and possibly point me in the direction of more
>  info, possibly some plans to build such a setup?
>
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Bruce
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