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Wood Gas Generator History

A wood gas generator often known as a gasifier, is a wood-fueled gasification reactor mounted on an internal combustion engine, to provide a wood gas, a form of syngas. These devices are also known as gas producers.
Gasification was an important and familiar 19th and early 20th century technology, and its potential and practical applicability to [...]

January 19, 2010 • Posted in: Gas Generator • No Comments

Gas-generator cycle

The gas generator cycle is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. Some of the propellant is burned in a gas generator and the resulting hot gas is used to power the engine’s pumps. The gas is then exhausted. Because something is “thrown away” this type of engine is also known as open cycle.
There [...]

December 30, 2009 • Posted in: Gas Generator • 2 Comments