Brig Gas Producers During WWII, Sidney Crawford and his team of 40 staff at Commercial Motor Vehicles created the Brig Gas Producers as a substitute to petrol due to rationing. In the Saturday 25 May 1940 edition, The Mail (Adelaide,… Continue Reading →
Allen Gas Producer Patents for Allen Gas Producer appeared in the USA and Australia; the USA patent date is 2 January 1918, and the latter is on 27 July 1914. George Hamilton Allen was an engineer from Collie, Western Australia, who died… Continue Reading →
Gasifier Books pre 1920s All the titles below are links to a range of books that are now quite dated but are of interest for research purposes. Some of the file sizes are quite large, so please look at the… Continue Reading →
Gasifier History Gasifier Origins Gasifier history can be dated back far earlier than usually stated. In 1609, the Belgian chemist Jan Baptista Van Helmon found that gas was produced from heating wood and coal. Sixty years later in 1669 Thomas… Continue Reading →
What is Gasification? Background As a technology, gasifier or gasification is more than a hundred years old. In terms of small-scale units, it peaked before and after WWII. This was due to the shortages experienced with liquid petroleum, but once… Continue Reading →
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