Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Biomass Energy Foundation: Wood CookingBecome aMemberof theBiomassEnergyFoundation"WoodGas Stove." After 23years of research, testing, andfinding a manufacturer, we havea WoodGas Stove that you canbuy in our store. We hope tosee a billion of these stoves inuse in the next few decades.These stoves are NOT wood stoves. They are based ongasifying the wood in the lower section with a smallamount of air and then burning the gas with about 6 timesas much air for clean combustion. They generaterespectively 3 and 6 kW of clean heat,The new WoodGas XL stove was tested by theAprovecho Research Center and found to perform verywell. They reported “The WoodGas XL stove met orexceeded all performance benchmarks and is herebycertified as seen below.”While most wood stoves burn stick wood, the wood gasstove can work on any reasonably dense biomass, suchas sticks, twigs, woodchips, wood pellets, seeds, shells,and even coal. None of these are currently used for “woodcooking”.See what people using Woodgas Stoves have tosay about them.Wood Stoves:Alas, most wood cooking is not done with gas, so will behttp://www.woodgas.com/woodcooking.htm (2 of 3) [10/9/2008 08:22:56]