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First-Run Start-Up Instructuions for GEK v30

Page history last edited by jay 13 years, 11 months ago

return to How to Build and Run the GEK Gasifier 

Have the v2.0? Here are the Start Up Instructions for the GEK v2.0.

 

 

   

 

Start up Instructions 

 

These instructions assume you have completed the fabrication instructions here (if you welded your own) as well as the assembly instructions here (if you bought the kit complete).

 

With the preliminaries done, now come the fun part.  Here's what you need to do to start making gas.

Try starting up without the hopper first, this will be easier to manage preliminary runs.

 

 

Before you start, and whenever you run a gasifier, please remember the following . . . 

Warning:

-Review the health guidelines of carbon monoxide: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/carbonmonoxide/

A gasifier is a dangerous thermo-chemical device.  Like most useful tools, it will do damage if used incorrectly.   A gasifier purposely generates carbon monoxide and other dangerous volatile organic gases as an interim step before combustion of the gas in a flare or engine.   Carbon monoxide is colorless, odorless, and will quickly colonize your hemoglobin, leaving no sites left for oxygen to land.  Acute exposure to carbon monoxide can be harmful or fatal.  Exposure to other VOCs is similarly problematic.  (In short, it is somewhat like smoking cigarettes, just exponentially worse.)

 

Always use a gasifier outdoors, and with extensive ventilation.  Always stay out of the smoke and/or produced gas before it is combusted.  Know that this is NOT typical campfire smoke.  Do NOT treat it as if it were.  The carbon monoxide concentrations in gasifier gas are higher than in other "smokes".  You can get in trouble quickly, usually before you realize it. 

 

Always have a fast reacting carbon monoxide meter in the area where you are working.  Ideally, hang one on a tether around your neck.  Carbon monoxide meters are available at more hardware stores in the smoke detector section.

 

STAY OUT OF GASIFIER GAS AT ALL TIMES!!! 

Comments (1)

Opalyn Brenger said

at 4:51 pm on Mar 14, 2010

Thanks for the great info! It started right up and was flaring in under 5 minutes.

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