I’m disappointed - you guys went to MIT & went to a couple of teacher colleges. It’s wood gasification!
I remember hearing about these back in the gas crisis of the 70’s when we were wood gathering hippies. I looked it up and sure enough the technology goes back to the 1830’s at least. Anyway, we got side tracked and didn’t go any further with converting our woods trucks but the info is out there as the guy above said “Google It” ( I had to look it up in the 70’s you can get more information now in less time that it took me to get to the library) 