Hi Dana, Check out these websites for "steam" stuff. www.claytonindustries.com (compact steam boilers) www.trigenewingpower.com www.coppus.com (steam turbines) www.tuthill.com (coppus corporate home) www.ttboilers.com One of these has a 10hp unit . I`m very interested in using biosiesel to fire a boiler, and turn a steam turbine for power generation. I also like the idea of using a back pressure steam turbine in that situation. I was wondering if you could use the low pressure steam exiting the back pressure turbine to turn a steam turbine that operated on low pressure steam, If so that would be a nice combined cycle set up! If not you could use that low pressure steam to heat some of your biodiesel tanks. Anyway those are some good websites to look at, and if I see any others I`ll let you know.
David Cruse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dana Linscott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] glycerol/steam production > It seems to me that since the biodiesel process > requires heat and in many climes home heating is a > major cost of living the prime use of "waste" glycerol > would be energy production/heat. > > Our initial attempts at modifying the "flame guns" > used in fuel oil furnaces to burn glycerol are showing > (as an earlier post from a member of this group > warned) a build up on the guns and in the combustion > chambers. We are also noting some corrosive effects on > the unit pumps which may be due to the glycerol > quality. Strait WVO seems to work better (as we > suspected it would) and so would seem to be the prime > candidate for home heating oil substitution since it > requires minimal processing. > > Accordingly glycerol would seem to be most useful as a > heat source for biodiesel production. > > Has anyone accumulated some hours using glycerol in a > non-injected type fuel oil furnace? > Some of our older members (myself included) recall a > "drip type" fuel oil furnace that was simplicity > itself but cannot find a source for them. They were > not thermostatically controlled. The maintenance > consisted of an annual cleaning of accumulated > "clinker" from the combustion chamber. > In cold climates such as ours in MN a primary furnace > of this type could be used to provide for a constant > heat input to a home and the existing furnace could be > used to provide supplementary heat when the primary > units capacity is not sufficient. > > I also recall seeing a fuel oil domestic hot water > heater (several decades ago) which worked on the same > principal and would adapt beautifully to heating WVO > for biodiesel production. > > Is anyone aware of a source for either one of these > products? > > A third, more complicated use for glycerol might be > electrical production using a steam powered generator. > In my younger days I was involved in fluid bed reactor > research and some of our bench test units would > cleanly combust nearly anything. Combined with a steam > generator they were actually quite efficient and > simpler to build than a Biodiesel production unit. > > > Is anyone aware of a simple to build steam engine > design or a source for inexpensive steam > engines/turbines in the 10 HP range? > > Efficiency would be raised substantially if the > glycerol could be combusted and used for electrical > production and the cogenerated heat could be harnessed > for Biodiesel production use or even home heating. > > Dana Linscott > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
