Producer Gas: Another Fuel for Motor Transport

摘要

The purpose of this report is to introduce gas to researchers, agencies, and institutions engaged in assisting developing countries. The panel demonstrates to decision makers, administrators, and scientists that producer gas technology is worth investigating and hopes, by this report, to encourage increased testing and use of producer gas as an automotive fuel. Producer gas represents an alternative to petroleum for fueling motor transport. It also has important, potential uses to fuel pumps, driers, and electric generators. Used during the fuel shortages of World War II, producer gas is generated from solid fuels such as wood, charcoal, coal, peat, and agricultural residues. Producer gas is made when a thin stream of air passes through a bed of glowing coals. Most of the carbon dioxide and steam are reduced to carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which, when mixed with air, are combustible. This report discusses producer gas technology and its history. The economics, advantages and disadvantages are also given. A comprehensive bibliography on producer gas is available as a companion volume.