Sneak Peak. Woody v. 3 - The Off Gridder

[ben]

A new year deserves a new gasifier. Next month will be Victory's one year anniversary and to celebrate we will be releasing the Off Gridder. It's the culmination of thousands of hours of work and it combines the best elements of the ESP & CHP into one unit. This is the platform we are going to use as we venture into fuels and semi-custom applications.

[John Brooks]

Ben,
When will this sucker be ready? Can you give us a list of stats and your ideas for application?
Thanks for your awesome work!!
John

[Klong]

Hi Ben, My Father and I are in the forests of Wa. and use solar. In the winter we have reduced capacity here and have been dancing around many diferent methods of winter power generation.
We belive you have taken the time to produce an awesome (read "awe inspiring") gasifier. So Im looking forward to the pleasure of solving our task at hand, plz advise us to which of the off grid units you think would be best for Wa. and a chiped wood fuel. Super vids BTW :]

[Ed Seal]

Wow! nice design work very inspirational thx

[Steve Unruh]

Having now seen and handled Bens Woody Off Gridder model first hand and listening in while he explained it and answered detailed questions about his design decisions to a very experienced/knowledgable designer in Mr Larry Dobson I would like to comment. This represents at least the seventh in a line of evolutionary designs he has explored. It is just as heavy as his video indicates not because he incorporated kilos of cast refractory in it like I had speculated, but because he IS building that much metal into it to establish the controlled air preheating and distribution, heating zones isolation and insulation, fuel flows and controlled transformation a system will need to be effective and efficient.
The fact he is now willing to commit to more expensive, difficult to weld but untimately more durable stainless steel says he now believes this will be his Imbert configuration of choice.

As a GEK owner, and small gasifier researcher, I can honestly say Bens WoodyOffGridder is a straight out of the books Imbert dementioned based unit, with a whole lot of named modern European features, and even more proprietory Ben detail major and subtle tweeks. I saw current pellet and chunked wood capability, and chipped fuel feed in development. I saw world class fabrication and welding. And especially important to me, an honest elegant simplicity in this design and the designer.
Steve Unruh, YACOLT Washington USA

[charles woody]

THANKS BTW, BEN START A MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION WEBSITE SO I CAN LEARN IN DETAIL AND RAPIDLY! LOL

[ben]

No I haven't tried storing the producer gas, but during the next year I want to shift the producer gas into natural gas and store it and try to use it in cars. There is more infrastructure for natural gas compression. The question is always how much does it cost.

Bladders or weather balloons as Charles mentioned above could be that cost effective solution for stationary. For cars they have a device called the "Phill" (not sure on spelling) that allows you to fill your car from your home natural gas line.

[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

[Lance Millar]

look good we in Fiji would like to try coconut hust and shell as a fuel.
Can't wait
Cheers

[charles woody]

QUESTION BEN, HAVE YOU TRIED TO STORE YOUR SYNGAS PRODUCER GAS INSIDE A WEATHER BALLOON LIKE STEVE HARRIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL "KNOWPUB"? IF NOT, TRY AND POST A VIDEO ONLINE MUCH APPRECIATED YOUR FRIEND -CHARLES

[ben]

I don't know. I haven't cooked anything yet. What can we cook with a 2000 degree flame?