if you can provide a flammable gas from your gasifier and get it into the intake stream
the diesel injection system and listeroid governor will do the rest up to a point.
as you start admitting another gaseous fuel you should see the fuel rack moving toward the
idle position while the engine is pulling a load, more gas will cause the engine to try and speed up
and the governor will taper back the diesel injected to control the rpm.
some engines can handle a fair percentage of gas before missfiring occurs, there needs to be some pilot fuel
injected to initiate the start of combustion.
what that percentage is on a particular engine, under a specific load, and with a specific quality of gas
will determine what the offset will be.
i am thinking that a IDI listeriod might reach as high a 70-80% woodgas before it starts to missfire, maybe a bit
more, maybe a bit less.
don't expect to get the same power on woodgas, woodgas does not have the same btu rating of diesel and
it displaces oxygen in the intake air, and
to optimise for woodgas will require adjustment of the timing to get max benefit, but
that is likely outside the ability of most diy'ers... me included
probably too much effort to get variable timing for the time, effort and dollars spent.
personally i would settle for a hit in efficiency just to have reliable power at any level of efficiency
as long as i could get maybe 2 of the 3 kwatts typical of a listeroid.
heck i might even settle for 1.5 kwatt if it worked out to be easily attained and reliable.
as the old adage states
"you get 90% of the result with 10% of the effort,and
conversely the last 10% will require 90% of the effort"
so maybe it follows that one could expect
1/2 the result with 1/2 the effort?
maybe that is enough result for most folks?
good enough for the girls i run with
bob g
