[TheForge] Wood Gassification heating?

[Bob Willman]

	We had a demonstration of charcoal making at our Hammer-In 2 years
ago using a method very similar to this. Two steel barrels were used. One
smaller one contained the wood and a larger one contained the fire. The
smaller one was placed inside the larger one and the fire lit. Holes in the
smaller one allowed the gas to escape into the fire in the larger barrel.
Pretty effective!  


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

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Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Wood Gassification heating?

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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