As stated on Windmeadow.com
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Wood gasification is the process of turning wood into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material (wood) at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen. Without oxygen, the wood can't burn so it transforms into gas. This gas can be used as fuel in an internal combustion engine.
What it requires is a high heat environment with little oxygen. What I propose is a machine that requires to be heated up to a temperature, through the use of coal/charcoal/electricity. Much like an induction furnace, the higher the heat, the faster the process. IRL the process can take up to 3 hrs, or 1/8 of a full minecraft day, which would equate to about 2.5 minutes at an average heat, or about 50% between the starting temperature and the max temp. A slot could be used to place any wood based product (technically any organic material can be burned down to carbon) with logs returning charcoal and wood gas, while others take several of themselves to make an equivalent amount. I propose a built in storage tank to fill up with the wood gas, and by placing cells inside they wood fill up with wood gas, which can be refined and canned into fuel cans. Or just place a fuel can inside the wood gasification unit to fill it with wood gas, then refine it for better combustibility. The machine would also produce charcoal as a by product. In WW2, wood gas was used to fuel automobiles in Europe, and was considered a suitable alternative to oil.
Recipes: (Subject to change)
=WGU Coal Powered=
=advanced alloy
Canning machine for holding and refining the wood, cell for containing the gas, iron furnace for heat and advanced alloys and iron for balance/structural integrity.
=WGU Electric Powered
About the same, except uses an induction furnace for heat which means electricity and circuits.
Hope this gets you thinking!