Does the GEK produce clean tar free gas?
The GEK does not promise, nor does it guarantee, clean gas or turnkey hands off performance. There are too many variables of fuel size, shape and moisture content, in combination with too many variables of operator competence, for us to promise you specific results. However, we know through our extensive experience, and you can confirm through the community of GEK users, that the GEK can produce very clean syngas which can successfully run an internal combustion engine. In fact, the GEK comes default with a variety of elaborations and improvements on historic units that will greatly increase your access to success. Regular running of engine using the GEK is very possible. But you are going to have to invest yourself in the process and earn the success. Despite all the improvements offered with the standard GEK, at the end of the day, is still a fixed bed downdraft gasifier, and thus has all the fuel sensitivities and operator dependencies that we all know from our reading, as well as t
The GEK does not promise, nor does it guarantee, clean gas or turnkey hands off performance. There are too many variables of fuel size, shape and moisture content, in combination the variables of the operator to guarantee specific results. However, we know through our extensive experience, and you can confirm through the community of GEK users, that the GEK will produce very clean syngas and run an internal combustion engine, when the gasifier is properly operated. The basic GEK comes with a variety of improvements on historic Imbert gasifiers units that will increase the liklihood of your success. Add to these basics the Hot TOTTI waste heat recovery and recyling components, and range of success expands dramatically. This heat augmentation system makes it possible for us to run the GEK down to 3hp or 1kw continuous without tar. This is an impossibly low rate for a traditional non-heat augmented gasifier. We like to say there is a “Triangle of Dependencies” for successful gasification:
