Homemade Syngas Generator

In this video, I lay out the construction and function of my syngas generator. I also burn some gas!


Syngas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. It is a useful feed-stock in chemical manufacturing. I have considered making diesel fuel out of it, but I think that pressurized vessels are currently beyond my capability.



An interesting note is that the syngas produced here is a bio-fuel. I am simply taking water and carbon from wood and converting into gas. Even when burned, this is technically carbon-neutral because if I hadn't converted it to carbon dioxide, fungi and termites would have! (with the exception of the ignition sources.) While this is technically clean, I am fully aware that this is extremely inefficient and not practical. Just a tidbit!


Sometime soon I'll melt some table salt with the pyrolizer.


If you would like to see where I live, look up "Tranquilo Bay." It is in Panama, the country. The monkeys happened to be there when I was setting up.