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General Category => D.I.Y. => Topic started by: gadget99 on March 19, 2016, 10:59:25 AM

Title: How to make fuel
Post by: gadget99 on March 19, 2016, 10:59:25 AM

OK All,

During WWII the Nazi regime had to rely upon synthetic fuel to power the war.

The technology was something the oil refineries use to this day.

They used the Fischer Topsch process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

So here is the deal. If you heat up something that has the ability to burn within a vessel you end up with a gas that is termed as syngas. Now you can run a petrol engine on syngas directly and you can also run it through a distillation tower and extract liquid. These fluids distill out at different temps. The lowest temp is something like petrol and the higher temps are diesel and motor oil.

Check it out and tell me what you think.

BTW... wood alchohol is made this way.

Title: Re: How to make fuel
Post by: Nemo on March 20, 2016, 10:00:19 AM

I have seen several demonstrations/usages of that method on TV  (Mountain Men and elsewhere) that they run a vehicle on the "smoke" from a sealed barrel of wood being heated on the outside by another wood fire.

The barrel is tied to pipes to feed into the carb and it runs the vehicle reasonably well.

Nemo

Title: Re: How to make fuel
Post by: special-k on March 20, 2016, 10:49:26 AM

It is called "wood gas."  Also search the terms "gasifier" and "gasification."

Prepping celeb and youtuber "engineer775 Practical Preppers" has a lot of in-depth videos on this.  He runs his truck and generator on wood gas.

https://www.youtube.com/user/engineer775/search?query=wood+gas (https://www.youtube.com/user/engineer775/search?query=wood+gas)

Title: Re: How to make fuel
Post by: Kbop on March 20, 2016, 03:20:08 PM

to add some more fuel to the fire (<3 my Wiki).  this also talks about making a type of diesel from coal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas)