Talk:Wood gas

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--Alex 08:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Alternativelly wood gas can be used to directly heat an external combustion engine such as an Stirling engine; one advantage would be to avoid the cleaning of the generated gas, hence, cooling down process and combust the gas avoiding any drop outs such as tar or water. Alltogether it would be one way to take advantage of the total biomass of forests and not leave 50% or more of the biomass unused or as waste. RockEnergy 10:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

It says in the begining of the article that wood gas is also known as producer gas, syngas and water gas. The latter two are definetively not wood gas. Water gas is made by an entirely different technique. Syngas is made at higher temp and under more controlled conditions than wood gas. Producer gas seems to be general term for gases that are mixed, i.e. both wood gas and syngas are producer gases. So have removed the mention in that sentence of syngas, producer gas and water gas. the other I do not know. (Holz gas is probably a German term, the Swedish term is gengas) Benkeboy 16:42, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change redirect for Producer Gas?

I believe that Producer Gas should get a mention in Manufactured Gas Plant and the redirect for Producer Gas go there instead of wood gas.

Producer gas is the production of mostly hydrogen gas through the heating of charcoal and the addition of steam.

Wood gas is destructive distillation and contains mostly carbon monoxide along with (to a lesser degree) hydrogen and many hydro-carbons to a lesser degree. Jm butler 17:17, 17 September 2006 (UTC)