WOOD GASIFIER OFFERS HIGH EFFICIENSY RATE
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Stage
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Gasoline powered car |
Diesel |
Electricity with batteries |
Hydrogen with piston engine |
Hydrogen |
Wood gas with piston engine |
| Refining of the crude oil | 90% | 95% | - | - | - | - |
| Power generation (condensing) | - | - | 40% | 40% | 40% | - |
| Hydrogen from electricity | - | - | - | 70% | 70% | - |
| Electricity from hydrogen | - | - | - | - | 70% | - |
| Charge and de-charge of battery | - | - | 60% | - | - | - |
| Electric motor | - | - | 90% | - | 90% | - |
| Internal combustion engine | 25% | 35% | - | 30% | - | 25% |
| Efficiency of gasifier | - | - | - | - | - | 75% |
| Total efficiency | 23% | 33% | 22% | 8% | 18% | 19% |
| Relative use of energy | 1,5 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 4,0 | 1,9 | 1,8 |
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Problems of the many alternative power technologies are the various energy converting processes. Typically energy is lost when converting it from chemical form to mechanical power or to electricity or vice verse. Main point is to keep this chain simple to reach high efficiency rate. Addition to this, hydrogen is only a means to carry energy produced by some other means into the automobile. Energy has to be produced somehow and wood gas technology solves also this fundamental problem at a very decent efficiency rate, which can be compared to current use of petrol powered internal combustion engines. Efficiency rate of diesel is high, but this doesn’t help us the day there is no oil. |
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