Producer Gas Storage

[William Michael Futch]

Have you tried storing the producer gas in a steel tank? Something in the way of storing Natural Gas. I think if you can store the producer gas and run it in a car that has been converted much like a natural gas conversion this could really catch on. Not only can you be off grid but you can be off petroleum without having the gasifier attached to the vehicle. Would love to see something in the way of storage.
Thanks
Mike

[WILL QUANE]

A novel way of storing gas could be to link up tubes from tractor tyres with a t peace cheap and safe storage easy to pressure coz their designed to and easy to empty

[William Michael Futch]

Good information thank you for the response

[Radam]

Storing hot combustible gas is not a very good solution here, it might be better to just optimize the gasifier for different output levels. Also the gas has high concentration of hydrogen which is so small that is simply leaks trough the metal. Which also makes it very brittle, just ask NASA. Or check hydrogen enbrittlement on Wikipedia.

Specific energy is also somewhat low and its comparable to wood itself at 10 to 20 MJ/kg, Natural gas is at 55 MJ/kg. So if at best it has three times lower energy, a composite 100 liter tank at 250 bars would store about 300MJ, thats like about 2 gallons of gasoline. Note that you would also have to compress it...