Solar steam engine #1 

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Precisely approximately more or less exactly.... you sir are a ledgend....

Had this idea 20 years ago my design was different in that it was a vacuum insulated pressure vessel with quartz sight glass and a carbon rod in the pressure tank there is a recessed cone shaped void in the carbon rod so that you would be hitting the center of the rod not just the surface and you can gravity feed the water to maintain your back pressure with a check valve. Furthermore don't forget the importance of mirrors you could drill a hole in the center of your dish and instead of having your pressure vessel in front of the dish it is behind the dish using parabolic mirrors

Love your work, but you had me laughing with the line, "Precisely, approximately, more or less exactly" ;) good video thanks

I appreciate a lot to see and hear all modifications on the way to the final set. Very good. Thanks for sharing.

The problem with that steam engine is it has a two-way valve so the forces balance or cancel each other until a major difference in pressure. You need to put a one way valve system on it so air can only flow in one direction

Just watched your video and found it quite inspirational to my own thought projects of combining various alternative energy production and storage methods. That system would be great for pumping water, say for a small water tower or for a even larger one in a tier pumping system. Thanks for the inspiration!

You're the one who will get these going,,,I like to see the process from one stage to the other,,,,thxs for sharing,,and keep at it,,,gb

Very useful demonstration of how to refine and combine ideas into a technology.

Awesome! This has been my fix solar for decades. Nice to see it in operation! Counter balance is key on trackers. #AP

"precisely, exactly ,more or less exactly" nice quote , very confidence inspiring.

Great video Sir !!! you certainly got me smiling ! run run RUN AWAY. Some other youtubers cut out the bad stuff and then cheat. You show it as it is. keep them coming ........

I love it: "the center of mass is precisely, approximately, more-or-less exactly..." So, you used to be a politician?

Really appreciate your hard work and dedication....

Nice Project carry on and then scale up after calculation of efficiency. Thanks for sharing.

This is an awesome channel! Great work.

Actually , your channel is so great and useful , thank you

Thank you very much for this video! Congrats from Argentina

This is fascinating! Great work

Thanks for sharing you save a lot of people a lot of time by your own experiments! Keep it up please!

I love this concept! And it's completely scalable! I'm going to build a full scale boiler that burns it's highest and hottest of a bright sunny day!

I’m so happy I found this I’ve been trying to figure out how to do exactly this. You’re a genius!

I am sure you will figure it out, this is the way great inventions come alive... all good..!!!

oh hey someone actually did this ^_^ I've been suggesting solar pumped steam engines for the better part of a decade.

Great seeing experimenters keep up the great work, be safe and have fun.

Kudos for the persistence....

Ik kijk al een tijdje naar jouw filmpjes, maar nu kom ik er pas achter dat je een landgenoot bent.. Hahaha. Je Engels is wat dat betreft perfect!

Precisely approximately more or less exactly. We went to the same engineering school, I see. Let everyone decide what can't be done, then go out and do it.

Precisely approximately more or less exactly...great description!

Awesome work :)

The first one was in 1866. Tesla tried it and failed.

lekker man! Heerlijk in je tuin je hobby uitvoeren! En op de echte doe het zelf manier. Met ijzerdraadjes enzo. Ga zo door!

I love it absolutely brilliant

Put a safety pressure regulator to vent the vessel if the pressure rises too high. The vent can always be used to preheat the water before it goes in.

The use of the glass container made me reflect oh so briefly about the lad who made a fission reactor in his bedroom.

Your videos inspire...so friken cool. From the Smoky mountains

This is what I needed, think I will need something to have back up power

carry on bro... u worked hard

5:09 WTF?!?!?! LOL Great video! I precisely, approximately, more-or-less, exactly love it!!!

Well done .you did your best

wood fired steam is probably the way to go on an industrial scale.

Thank you Sir I’m thinking of adding the pressure effect in a close bottle will heat up more and make it more efficient

Thank you sir very nice efforts and inspiring

Brilliant idea

Great video ❤️❤️

0:43 " the center of mass is precisely, approximately, more or less, exactly at the point of rotation " haha LMAO

What a fun episode...

Your steam is cooling before it hits the engine. Also might help to bring the cylinder and piston up to temperature so the steam stays steam as it passes through.

Dude, all you really need is to talk with a knowledgeable thermal engineer and many of your bad guesses will no longer be necessary. You figured out the thermal coefficient of aluminum and water. Why did you stop there? The pressure/thermal properties of many materials are freely available online. Start there and find appropriate materials for your parts. By the way, when steam leaves your primary heating chamber (receiver), you must be sure to insulate your line all the way to your steam engine intake. A great deal of energy is lost by cooling if you fail to do this. Second, ditch that reciprocating leaky mess and go straight to a very efficient Tesla turbine. You won't regret it. You will need a small pressure tank between the receiver and the turbine to allow for pressure smoothing and volume adjustments. Remember, each stage of your system must be checked for energy losses. This goes all the way to your generator!. You can botch up the whole project by loosing a little here and a little there. Using steam can be a very interesting and enjoyable energy transfer medium. But, the main drawback is being diligent to reduce ALL losses in the whole system. If you choose to continue using glass, be absolutely sure you are using pyrex high temperature glass, like the type used in baking. NO more low-temp untempered crap. Steel works very well. Just blacken a small patch with soot from a flame to accept your solar energy . Keep it very thin. Use rock wool as the insulating blanket around your steel receiver. Use copper tubing from the steel receiver all the way to your Tesla turbine jet injector. Insulate this tubing with rock wool covered in aluminum foil. Remember to thermally insulate the part that holds your receiver or it will bleed off a huge amount of energy right at the receiver! Best to hold it with two hose clamps outside the insulation blanket. Do the same with the copper tubing going to the turbine. Follow this advice and you will have half of a good electric generating system. The other half is the generator and regulator and beyond.

Nice work

Solar steam engines are suitable in hill side villages. Thanx for show.

Nice i was looking for some thing like this video being run by the sun for electric

>Dinosaurs, Rockefeller Coniferous tree sap from when the entire earth was covered in one species of tree, you can refine sap straight from a live tree into E85

9:16 nice sound!

Nice ideaa. Steam Era is coming baack.

Brilliant !

Parece um cara honesto.(seems to me he is a honest guy.

It is interesting. Excellent! Thanks

approximately precisely more or less exactly.... now THAT made me laugh! :)

I love this person's work so much! I wish it had more attention. Not to mention that solar steam engines are what should be used more. Making a more intricate ride on rail or road while also eliminating gas, oil or coal. (unfortunately this design isn't what I had in mind :c )

great content thanks

At 0:42 ... the center of mass is precisely, approximately more or less exactly at the point of rotation ... :-) [funniest statement ever] it made my day :-)

really interesting , i'm subscribing

You have much money to spend for experiments but I don't have, even I am not much wealthy and rich in money but let me tell you one thing surprising here, I never seen any steam engine in my life but one day I decided to make one steam engine and I had asked to my friends about that but 100% people laugh on me but I said I will do that and I will complete it with my own knowledge and within three days I will complete my project. There was many expert mechanics around my shop and they had laugh on me but I had start work on my steam engine and the third day I invited all those mechanics to watch my engine running and then they was surprised and I had seen their face was smiling but they was ashamed on their attitudes that they was laughing but I prove them my spiritual skill. That was an antique design in steam engines still I have in my junk store.

ZETACON4: Since no one has yet thanked you for your expert thermal input I thought to myself, self...why don't you go ahead and thank the man ya damn-self! And you know what, I believe I will... THANK YOU ZETACON4!!!

One of the most underrated channels ever

Great bro .. i was thinking about something like that.. but i thought to use magnifying glass but it would b costly and less secure.. thank you

Photomontage fixing spray and Skylar sheet does it too for the parabolic mirror, under 5 min work. Try it. No critic, amazed by your work. ❤

Awesome!!

Very nice

This is a job for .... yes you guessed it, "Clean Coal" or is it Green Coal, any way Id insolate all the way to the engine, but I think first you need to find a disk twice the size and more polish. ... Great looking engine you have there. Super fantastico! my friend.

He pissed at that bottle 😂

Beautiful

Nice video. Although your thermal receiver needs work. Try a small propane tank, empty of course, with >> valves in and out. Cover the tank with clay cob made with that rock wool and char it up so it's black. It will boost your thermal capabilities a bit. You don't need to follow the sun if you use more than one reflector, 3 old satellite dishes will work, just get them to shine. Thanks for posting, keep up the experimental research.

pressure cooker painted black and exposed to the your heat ray should do the job.

I been planning something like this for a WHILE!! I was thinking focous about 4-6 dish, on about 1cubic foot box, with internal fins, to allow more surface area. I want to spin a small turbine, if I could generate 10-20 amps it would be great! For my 24v system, I want to use radiators inside, to heat my house, (somewhat!) And condense the steam i may use a wood stove to help this along! But 500-600 watts when there is NO sun would be awesome! Maybe have a multiple stage , compound system, where water is slowly pumped and heated in about 300-400cc chambers, in front of a dish, maybe a Fresnel lense on the opposite side, all tracking, surely by the end it will just be super heating the steam! And I just about bet money, a brass, or copper box would work much better, I tried all kinds of matereals with my soldering iron, the copper tip was the only one that worked! The aluminum cooled so fast it was useless!! Maybe you can find a large plumbing fitting, like a 2" tee, and some plugs, and drill and tap for smaller fittings, just thinking, my iron got hot enough the copper glowed in dim light, but wouldn't melt solder, with anything else, thermal dynamics, will always win!!

Stirling, dude. Stirling.

Very cool

If you do a compound parabolic reflector where the focal point reflector focuses a beam through a hole in the center just behind the dish you can use a TEG array and use a ground loop for your delta.

The line between a glass solar collector and a glass bomb is a remarkably fine line…Perhaps some sandbags between you and the jar might reduce explosive pressure relief!

My thinking is having a pressure vessel where there is a constant flow of water into the boiler where it flashes into steam constantly and flows out through the steam line powering your shoe polisher or foot scratcher.

Pool solar heaters can out out 120 F easily. Use one of those as or after a condenser so the fluid stays as hot as possible. Insulate everything.

Using a non-tracking solar water heater to preheat the water for the steam generator will greatly increase your steam production.

Also building a similar system, yours is awesome!

who said the back yard mechanics and inventors were dead. =+1 sub : )

Awesome!

FOUR commercials before it was even half over..... last time I come here.

Good idea

Great idea in general, but you are doing it the hard way. I have a circular tracking concentrating mirror, which weighs, including the boiler filled with water, less than 3 lb and concentrates 12 running feet by 8 in of sunlight down to a line. On a clear day, it makes more steam then I can use. I run the steam through a turbine and a reduction transmission, then to a generator, which makes enough electricity to run my air conditioner for free in the summer on clear days.

hey I had a similar idea but with a small Stirling engine instead of high pressure steam-driven engine

You could try using a fresnel lens instead of a parabolic reflector.

We put glas bottles into self made melting ovens and they mostly exploded, however They didn't have much force in it and couldn't get trough a thin layer of stone and clay.

I think I'll power a steam engine with a sawdust stove, but this is a cool CSP prototype.

Nice work, dude! Any ideas on the generation power of this solar collector?

Use aluminum single layer flask instead of glass to hold the water. They usually have a cap which you can make it air right to run the water vapor hose for the stream generator

I’ve been working with flash boiler and water injection to a solar flash boiler

0:44 "precisely approximately more or less exactly" LOL...

Please try with fresnel lens, even small will be more efficient than polished parabolic mirror.

might try a 2d parabolic reflector mirror. aka, a half pipe focusing on a water pipe as a boiler. this is how the solana thermal solar power station is setup.

It is easy to make some steam, even with solar heat. It is more complicated to make steam at sufficient power and volume to do work. To do that, you need some more components. First, the boiler should be constructed to withstand at least several bars of pressure. You need to proof test the boiler at twice the design pressure, at a minimum. You also need safeties, or pressure relief valves. They pop off at a set pressure to prevent dangerous overpressure of the boiler. You need a feed tank and feed pump. The feed pump must be able to pump a modest amount of feedwater to the boiler at the boiler's operating pressure.Then you need a recirc pump, which does not need to be able to pump against the boiler's pressure. Because this is not a typical watertube boiler fired with liquid petroleum fuel, maybe you can get by with no recirc pump, I don't know. So the boiler gets feedwater, converts it to steam. Steam needs to get to the engine, whether steam turbine or steam piston engine. There, the expanding steam can do work, and there it loses much of its heat. This is why steam under significant pressure and temperature at a significant volume are needed. After passing through the engine, the dead steam passes through a condenser. The condenser is a heat exchanger and some of this heat can be used for preheating feedwater or in the case of a conventionally fired system, heat the fuel oil. The drop in temperature pulls a slight vacuum, increasing flow through the engine and work performed. The condensate is then moved by a condensate pump to the feed tank. This is a closed system but inevitably there will be leaks. If care in maintaining water chemistry is not exercised, chloride levels can rise to unacceptable levels. Along the way there are other parisitic loads such as lube oil circulation pumps, lube oil purifiers and fuel oil purifiers which of course you do not need, and utility or hotel steam for running auxillary equipment. Even with all of these additional loads, efficiency is increased by increased pressure and volume of steam through optimization of the cycle. I almost forgot. You need either some way to maintain boiler water level in a set range so the boiler does not run dry but also water does not excape into the steam header, or else a steam separator of some sort to send the steam oward but return boiler water to the boiler.You do not want water in the steam outlet.