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Comment by chris seymour on November 8, 2009 at 2:51pm

This thing makes 1 gallon at a time - it will take 15 minutes for the reaction to complete.

Comment by chris seymour on November 6, 2009 at 9:42pm

I am going to put together a new blog tonight about homemade fuels from Producer Gas. A complete guide on how this can be done on the cheap! This can be one of the most valuable things that can be done with this gas. Maybe start a group on the topic of Syn-Fuels as well.

There is more than one way to skin a cat, and there's a few ways (new and old)of making quality fuels from Wood Gas too. It will be a lot to go over, but it will also be informative, fun and valuable!

To get an early start I found this how too on making your own simple fischer tropsch reactor!!!

Check it out,

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Gasoline

1. Cap a 5' length of 8" flanged stainless steel pipe at both ends. Ensure the top cap is removable.
2. Insert 2 1/4" taps in the side for temperature and pressure gauges, and a 1/2" tap in the bottom.
3. Run for 3" and then through a 1/32" restriction (1/2" pipe).
4. Make a steam tank from 1' of the 8" pipe that sits directly below the gasifier.
5. Include a 45-degree t-section in the line to add first 2 and then 1 liter of water per operation. Cap it up.
6. Attach the main line (1/2") to the side of the gasifier near the top, then goes to for 12" and then down into the ash filtration unit.
7. Put a 1/2" in the side for a 450 psi relief valve. This unit should run at 800-1000 degrees Celsius and around 30 atmospheres.
8. Make the ash filtration unit out of 1' of the 8" pipe.
9. Put the 1/2" inlet pipe down through the 200-mesh screen placed 9" into the filter.
10. Fill the top with 1 kg of lime.
11. Put a 200-mesh screen in the 1/2" outlet in the top.
12. Run a 12" loop of the 1/2" water pipe (Schedule 80) through here too.
13. Make everything after this of standard steel - it's much cheaper.
14. Run a 1/2" pipe to the 4-way junction.
15. Install a valve and a gas regulator (1.9mm venturi expanding to 6" with a 3/4" outlet)on one outlet to reduce the pressure to near normal before going back to the gasifier to heat the reaction from the outside of the unit.
16. Build rings of gas nozzles, one column each on 4 sides of the unit, with 6 nozzles each.
17. Make a heat shield. Constructing a heat shield (bricks, etc) over this will work well.
18. Put a valve on the next pipe that goes to a catalyst maker where the gas flows through a 6" x 24" pipe, through a screen out to a regulator (the same sort from earlier), and is burned on the outside of the unit.
19. Place a valve on the pipe going through to the main reactor.
* To make catalyst, shut off this valve.
* To make fuel, shut off the catalyst maker valve for 4 hours.
* To test the relief valve, close all valves...
20. Build the main reactor. Start with 8" by 5' Schedule 80 pipe (anything in this part should be made of S80).
21. Cap it off at both ends.
22. Make a ring of 1/2" coolant pipes around the inside surface of this, plus a 1/2" in top and bottom for the gas and another 1" in the top for catalyst loading.
23. Put a screen about 6" from the bottom, and make it slope downward towards the inlet pipe.The catalyst outlet is at the bottom of the unit through the inlet (t-section with cap).
24. Make an outer shell of 10" pipe with enough clearance to put caps on this pipe as well with the main reactor inside.
25. Interconnect the coolant pipes in every possible way, with a main outlet on both top and bottom manifolds.
26. Fill the coolant system with distilled water.
27. Make a sizable square radiator, with a steam-powered fan and return pump and a steam relief valve set for 100 atmospheres. 2 hp should be enough for both.
28. Load with 6 liters by volume of 100-mesh reduced iron or magnetite (Fe3O4).This unit should run about 350 degrees Celsius and about 25 atmospheres. Steam at 1300-1400 PSI.
29. Begin building the final processing units. A 3/8" venturi expanding to 6" and then capped will expand and cool the gase

Comment by chris seymour on November 6, 2009 at 9:40pm

also check out How to Make Your Own Synthetic Oil too!

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Synthetic-Oil