Re: [RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

2014-09-21 Thread RE Ellison
The inverter portion of the process at this point in time would be relatively east to do. That's not saying that the inverter will like the power quality. Most generators will not put out smooth enough power to allow an inverter to connect. The engines that I have seen running on wood gas were

Re: [RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

2014-09-21 Thread toddcory
i saw a commercial unit doing this here in mountshasta about 12 years ago. the gas (from gasified wood) was fed into a ford engine, which turned a dc generator charging a small buffer bank of batteries. a standard trace sw4024 did the selling to the grid. the grid interface was the easy part.

Re: [RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

2014-09-21 Thread Ron Young
The comments are interesting and helpful. This is a proposed college research project that will be sponsored by a grant and all these bridges would have to be crossed. Ron On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:08 AM, RE Ellison reelli...@gmail.com wrote: The inverter portion of the process at this point in

Re: [RE-wrenches] wood gasification to grid

2014-09-21 Thread jay peltz
Why not do this system like a AC hydro system. They drive an AC motor, through some control mechanisms, but no inverter, batteries etc. I think that Thompson and Howe is one company that provides such equipment. In working this through a standard inverter, you would have to rectify it, easy.