[TheForge] Wood Gassification heating?

[Jerry Frost]

Actually if the charcoal is in contact with the 
combustion air it'll burn just fine and you can feed 
the furnace like any other wood burner, it'll just be 
way more efficient.

The whole idea of using a wood gassifier for heat is to 
burn the volatiles, CO, etc. in secondary and tertiary 
burn zones before it leaves the stove. Below is the URL 
to a company making wood gassification boilers.

http://www.alternateheatingsystems.com/woodboilers.htm

Frosty
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>


>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
>