It may shock you to learn this but water boils at 30c in a vacuum and returns to liquid at 29c the expansion rates are the same no matter how the water boils. This means in a closed system you can run a steam engine off heat from the sun and endothermic from water sources you could even run an air conditioner use the heat to boil water and the cold to return it to liquid.
Old Briggs & Stratton engines don't die, they go STEAM!!! Nice set-up, I think you could go bigger and better though, less than 7 amps for all that available power is very cheesy, my guess is that you've only got induction from the motor windings feeding itself. Put permanent magnets on or into the armature and you'll get some more power from this.
Es la manera más simple, clara, viable, durable, fiable, versátil y potente de convertir combustible en electricidad que he visto en la red. Muchas gracias, caballero, por éste esclarecedor video que puede orientarnos muy acertadamente al aprovechamiento de la energía barata
For a brutally simple steam engine design look into the Bash / Bump valve Steam Engine. Lots of youtubes to be seen on this idea. ( I'd still go with the Tesla Turbine, Been a fan of it for years.)
Very nice. I am from Pakistan, I need such small turbine unit for 2kw. My question Is that, how can you reverse steam to boiler??? Tell me your generator capacity
I think it's a great idea and we tried many different ways to do it but the problem is that every internal combustion engine has blow by on the rings and when you use steam the water mixes with the oil and washes out the bearings the next thing we are going to try is an oil cooler that also has a water & oil seperator Best of luck
We have abandoned the conversion of the internal combustion engine. Now we are working with a version of the tesla turbine. This will allow us to reclaim almost all of the steam and send it back into a condensate tank without any oil contamination.
I was wondering the same thing! My thought was to run exhaust to a primary buffer tank with a "bladder" to hold pressure then add lightweight (veggie or similar oil) to the system (closed)....any thoughts?
@@ourhouseisfull11 hello Dan. I am based in Nairobi Kenya and would like to know how could we use your used tire fire burning boiler idea here to support the community to use used tire and reduce waste. I would highly appreciate if you could kindly write back to me at kotharyabbas@gmail.com or whatsapp me at +254731844233.
The noise level in a residential area appears to be at a level that would be quite annoying to neighbors. You say, "Then the electrical is connected to the grid and the steam motor is slowed and labors to turn the electric motor faster than the grid speed of 60 hrtz. This effectively make the motor into a grid tied generator." If you tie the motor to the grid, is the electric motor, which is "faster than the grid speed of 60 hrtz" feeding out of phase current into the grid? How about a schematic of the circuit? I didn't read all the comment, but in the ones I did read, I didn't see a response to the questions of feeding oil into the steam. Also, the whole thing starts off with an incinerator with a noisy blower referring to a gasification process. How is this gas collected and used? The incinerator, used to heat the boiler, is shown producing no smoke at the start. Later, all shots carefully avoid showing the smokestack, why?
It is only a generator if the speed at which the motor is spinning is greater than its syncrhonous speed. Otherwise, it is just a motor with a load on its shaft.
You could try to lower to pressure where your water is boiling. The thing is that by lowering the pressure, you can change the boiling point of water. And you could also recycle the used steam to pump it back it the piston.
Why not just run the gassified wood as the fuel into a standard ICE to run a generator. You're losing efficiency by making so many conversions, especially into a motor that doesn't take steam very well. Is this just a proof of concept rig?
Wood gasification produces both liquid fuel and a vaporized synth gas so yeah you have both options..... As a third way to increase efficiency, could you also coil some pipe around to also heat water for hot water production for the home???
The great thing using an ice is you can oversize the engine and generator to utilize the full gas production potential of the gasifier if it is well engineered. Alternatively use the heat for alcohol production and end up with a product that will run many ice engines including diesel. If you use a vaporization system to run the engine it will provide substantially more horsepower per liter used but must be 190 or higher proof to near fully vaporize. Refer to the pougue carburetor for inspiration. As a bonus if you have cattle or pigs, the mash is a great high protein feed.
@@tripplefives1402 When I've dealt with steam powering a piston engine with a crankcase, you have to separate lubricating oil from the condensate. This occurs through piston ring slop in the cylinder. Allowing oil to enter, a minute amount but over time it adds up. Place the condensate in a drum first in which you draw off from the drum bottom. Don't put it in a pond, it will contaminate.
Hey Don, I'm curious at the efficiency of this. I understand you are doing it for other reasons, but purely from a monetary point of view, would you say using the cities power charges you more money or if you were to use this set up? Let's ignore start up costs.
Ah I see, thanks for your response, and I've definitely seen most of your videos! I'm a subscriber. It's very cool stuff. I'm definitely going to play around with these, as a hobbyist, once I finish my engineering degree.
This happens automotically my friend. If you are at zero and you plug it in, it runs as a motor and starts from 0 hertz. The difference is 3600 rpm. If you are running the electric motor with a steam powered primary mover and you are above 3600 rpm on the electric motor, when you plug it into the grid, the motor is above 60 hertz and it acts like a generator, the grid phase is matched automatically and the difference in speed is minimal compared to a hard start when using the induction motor as a generator.
why not pipe the exhaust to a cooling unit like a evaporator or radiator, than pump the steam that will get turned back into water back into tank, that way you don't have all that steam and don't need to add water as much
If this is real, this man needs a dump truck to carry around his massive balls to just plug a generator into a live ac electrical system without synchronizing the two first. That same dump truck can be used to clean up the mess he'll make in his pants if he ever gets that generator too far out of phase.
It is an induction motor. And all induction motors act like generators if they are driven by a prime mover faster than the grid and only when they are driven faster than the grid. In fact, all electric motors start at 0 hertz when the grid is at 60 herts. All i am doing is plugging in a motor already spinning around 65 to 80 hertz into a grid that is at 60 hertz. So actually it is far more out of phase when you start an induction motor from zero than turn it into a generator with a 5 to 20 hertz differential.
not combustion (ELECTRICITY) to produce steam -> the steam runs an electric generator & for on-the-go an electric or steam motor & electric steam to water condenser --- it's called perpetual feedback
Hey admin...kindly reply me..i want to discuss things related to the design of this project..kindly reply as soon as possible so that i can contact you....
