Another British CHP system.
The Brits seem to be way ahead of us with home CHP experimentation. More operational systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fql0hBkZWZg&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fql0hBkZWZg&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5M4QC_E47U&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5M4QC_E47U&feature=related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4t6uHKxlP8&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4t6uHKxlP8&feature=related)
veggie
What a lucky guy to live someone that would put up with that much noise.
I also covet his remote readout in the middle link. Where do I get one of those? How is the information transmitted?
So what am I to do with my heat here in Hawaii and it being 150 feet from an inhabited structure?
Casey
QuoteSo what am I to do with my heat here in Hawaii and it being 150 feet from an inhabited structure?
Could you use it to run a Stirling engine, to generate more electricity perhaps?
Hi Lowgear/Casey
2nd time I've heard you ponder engine waste heat usability in your not needing much space heat environment.
Just suggestions:
Dry something. Remember Liberty Orchards "Applets and Cottlets" out of Washingtion State? They have to evaporate reduce then dry their fruit juices. Same for kiln drying of woods and all nuts. Dried flowers, plants and herbs, etc.
Evaporate distill some thing: you probably don't need this but water purification comes to mind. Hmmm. Alcohols - motor fuel of course.
I am not joking or being off the wall.
Any process created energy or material crosses over from being a waste to a resource just but creatively coming up with a useable use for it.
My chainsaw and sawmill blade kerf "wastes" is the resource used for animal bedding. Used bedding and manures enrich our nutrient washed out rainforest garden soil.
My "waste" engine heats will now be the solar derived energy resource used to reduce my unusable 40-60% moisture gasifier woodfuel down to a gasifier useable 20%.
Only been 7 actual sunny solar drying days here in the last 40 here - all woods outdoors has fallen behind drying with the +30 inches of rain in the meantime.
You are a smart man - you'll think of somthing. Just think of that heat blowing away unused as $$$ blowing away in the wind.
Like your new engine picture.
Regards
Washington State Steveu.
QuoteEvaporate distill some thing: you probably don't need this but water purification comes to mind. Hmmm. Alcohols - motor fuel of course.
Hmmmm. You mean like methanol out of glycerin?
Thanks,
LowGear,
As I recall, you have a biodiesel (or at least a WVO) setup.
Biodiesel requires the batch to be heated to 130f prior to reaction.
You could use the waste heat to A] Heat you biodiesel reactor, or B] Help heat and dewater your WVO.
veggie
Yes to the bio-diesel program and WVO. I brought up this heating the WVO for the transesterification part of the process in a sister thread.
http://www.microcogen.info/index.php?topic=1085.msg12736#new (http://www.microcogen.info/index.php?topic=1085.msg12736#new)
Casey