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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>Long time reader, first time poster.</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I am planning on building a small gasifier to run an IC engine for electricity and heat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">About 3/4 of my available energy is in the form of chipped forest waste and the balance is waste oil.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">If possible I would like to add the waste oil to a downdraft gasifier for drying and cracking.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Has this been tried and were the results favorable or would I be wasting my time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">My thought was to control oil flow by utilizing a vacuum pump from the engine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Obviously I could use the waste oil in a separate burner, but that would seem to be unnecessary, perhaps not.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">edge</span></p></div></span></font> </div></body>
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