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[PresentTeck]

I was planning on doing some tests and entering my gasifier into an agricultural science fair, but to do that i would need to measure the output... thats where it gets trickey.

1) I have no motor to test with. so a direct measure of HP is out

2) I Assume with the venturi vaccume system (gek issue) lowers the temp of the flames due to the compressed air being cold, so i think that measuring BTU wouldnt work

3) I can do loads of math-> volume of gas output, velocity, & ammount burnable fuel in there... I can get access to a CO2 meter, but i dont know the levels it is good to. and that means going back through the chemicle process. you get where im going here...


So what should I do for the best results? If there is anything that can be done.
Thanks

[PresentTeck]

never mind, i figured out that i could get a good result by boiling water to get BTU's. make it a somewhat controled environment by sheilding it from the wind. I'll post results of this after it's compleated.

[fuel spiller]

I couldn't find it, but there are pics of a swirl burner plumbed to fit down inside a 55 gal barrel (swirl burner stack is taller than water level). They wrapped the ouside to insulate. I think they said the GEK puts out 40 K  thermal.