Convert your Honda Accord to run on trash

Step 3 Safety

There are a lot of potential dangers with this project.

We recommend you always have a responsible adult present when building your Trash Powered Honda.

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• Cars are big! Heavy! And have lots of moving parts that can squash or grind you up!
• Gasifiers produce gases which are very good for engines, but very bad for humans. Thus please remember the following whenever you run a gasifer

Warning: 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 complete combustion of the gas in a flare or engine. Acute exposure to carbon monoxide can be harmful or fatal. It is colorless, odorless, and will quickly colonize your hemoglobin, leaving no sites left for oxygen to land. Exposure to other VOCs is similarly problematic. In short, it is somewhat like smoking cigarettes, just exponentially worse. In fact, a cigarette is an updraft gasifier, a close cousin to what you are building in steel with the GEK

So dont be an idiot. Don't smoke. And certainly don't smoke the equivalent of 100 cigarettes simultaneously by breathing in any leaking gas from your GEK. 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. SO STAY OUT OF GASIFIER GAS AT ALL TIMES.

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.

And remember that with just one extra oxygen, CO becomes CO2. It is a very easy oxidation pathway, thus why syngas burns so cleanly.

Anyone have a Prius we can challenge at the smog shop?

Comments

[phantom444e]

Great instructable,I have seen photos of cars and trucks in Europe during wwII using something similar to this.

[randomray]

I work at a refinery and your disclaimer is really the same for any car " don't suck on the tail pipe fool " chuckle ... example gasoline is an explosive , flamable , toxic and a known carcinogen . Very interesting .