Mental exercises with wood gas...

[Aglifter]

OK, so, this will be very rough, but I'm too lazy to look up the right formulas, and try to remember all the stuff involved... (Been a very long time since thermodynamics and organic chem...)

Syn Gas is CO and H2. And gasoline is, fundamentally, octane.

So, for every mol of octane, we get 8 mol of CO2, and 9 mol H20, which requires 12.5 mol O2.

So, a 1:12.5 ratio.

I have to look up the ratio between CO and H2 in syn gas, but it should be a 2:1 mix of syngas to O2 for any ratio.

Ergo, the first situation would be to rework the gases being mixed in the engine.

The other problem is the vast difference in energy density...

Would a propane engine be a better choice - is there such a thing as an engine designed for methane?