Online Catalogue last updated 15th of September 2008
If you want to burn wood to make rotary motion for driving a pump or generating electricity or driving vehicles or machinery, the conventional way would be with a steam boiler, and steam engine. The problem is that steam can be dangerous, and requires special licence to operate. This book shows a simple alternative.
This book shows how to burn wood to produce combustible gases that can be used as a fuel for internal combustion engines.
In 1905 the author showed people how to use use wood, charcoal or coal to power the early internal combustion engines of the time.
Selection of an engine, installation, foundation and exhaust, water circulation, lubrication, perfect operation, how to start the engine, perturbations in the operation, producer gas engine, producer gas, pressure gas-producers, suction gas-producers, oil and volatile hydrocarbon engines, and selection of an engine.
The beauty of this book is in details provided for many different gas generators. You get drawings of a Simplex generator, a Dowson unit, a Fichet-Heurtey producer with rotating bed-plate, a Gardie unit, a sawdust purifier, a gas holder and washer, a Fange-Chavanon inverted-combustion producer and many more.
This book would also be of interest to old engine enthusiasts who want details on early engines, ignition systems and more.
Code No. 009442, 314 pages, $36.50