# Wood gasifier engines

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [September 5, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204 "2017-09-05T08:06:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maddremor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Maddremor](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Maddremor)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/1 "2017-09-05T08:06:45Z")

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During times of oil shortage (especially during WII) combustion engines were converted to run on wood or coal using wood gasifiers. This fits the apocalyptic aestethic, is feasable to make with existing combustion engines, and is more practical than steam engines (at least in the short term).

> **[Wood gas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas)**
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> Wood gas is a syngas fuel which can be used as a fuel for furnaces, stoves and vehicles in place of gasoline, diesel or other fuels. During the production process biomass or other carbon-containing materials are gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide. These gases can then be burnt as a fuel within an oxygen rich environment to produce carbon dioxide, water and heat. In some gasifiers this process is preceded by pyrolysis, whe...

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![DeWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/2 "2017-09-05T14:41:46Z")

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Interesting…

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**Author:** ![tarburst98](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tarburst98/32/1355_2.png) [@tarburst98](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/tarburst98)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/3 "2017-09-06T16:56:07Z")

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only problem i can think of is can a wood gasifier be built by a survivor? it looks like a complex chunk of machinery.

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**Author:** ![DeWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/4 "2017-09-06T17:13:24Z")

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> [@tarburst98](#):
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> only problem i can think of is can a wood gasifier be built by a survivor? it looks like a complex chunk of machinery.

Actually one idea I had for a mod is that you could take apart some of the factory equipment you could find either from vaults in vanilla or factories and military compounds from more locations and I think tall buildings mount them on a vehichle frame and use them to build items that require better tools and or more precision than what hand tools could provide such as better survivor made guns.

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**Author:** ![SpadeDraco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/spadedraco/32/564_2.png) [@SpadeDraco](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SpadeDraco)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/5 "2017-09-06T17:22:38Z")

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> [@tarburst98](#):
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> only problem i can think of is can a wood gasifier be built by a survivor? it looks like a complex chunk of machinery.

You can actually ghetto one together with nothing but propane tanks and piping. That being said, I don’t know if they’d be compatible with most modern cars…

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**Author:** ![DeWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/6 "2017-09-06T17:46:26Z")

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> [@SpadeDraco](#):
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> [quote=“tarburst98, post:3, topic:14204”]only problem i can think of is can a wood gasifier be built by a survivor? it looks like a complex chunk of machinery.

You can actually ghetto one together with nothing but propane tanks and piping. That being said, I don’t know if they’d be compatible with most modern cars…[/quote]  
I also don’t think its a wise idea to mix biodiesel with regular diesel.

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**Author:** ![vivat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vivat/32/98_2.png) [@vivat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vivat)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/wood-gasifier-engines/14204/7 "2017-09-18T11:23:48Z")

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> [@tarburst98](#):
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> only problem i can think of is can a wood gasifier be built by a survivor? it looks like a complex chunk of machinery.

if you can weld - you can craft jetstream furnace for produce pyrolysis gas