Mmm I doubt you could even run an engine. If you could it would not be very long. It is a learning tool and not intended to run an engine.
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Yes you need a lid, the air needs to be metered. You dont need a complicated lid to seal this. The hopper will not get hot requiring complicated sealing systems.
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All you need is press on bulb seal with a flat plate. You could hold it down with a rock! lol
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Post 741 is the scale of machine you need to run a small engine.
Its reactor core is a 1 1/2" X 4" reducer and its top (carb) is a 2" x 4" reducer.
You are going to find you will need to automate the machine, there is no way around it at this smaller scale. I dont care what type of gasifier or what its build architecture is. Dont get fooled by youtube videos of machines running for 2 minutes on camera. This is not how it is in real world senerios at this small scale. A static grate will not clean itself and raw fuel flows are reliant on gravity. The machine may run fine for a while but eventually it will need intervention to overcome fuel bridging and grate clogging. If automation is used to maintain flows the machine will run very reliable. If you use automation as a corrective measures its already too late and the machine will need to re establish its flows.
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that long reactor tube is 1.5 inches so the reduction is 4 to 1.5 and the top one is 4 to 2 inches i made a mistake i had the tube as 3 inches or 6 to 3 and the top 6to2 thanks for the corection what is the size of the harbour freight tank width and length.
The reduction tube is 6" diameter. The restriction is the small end of the weld reducer and is 1.5"
Do not follow the kit, it was experimental and was prone to clogging. This was due to driving the geometry to allow it to be built with hole saw and hand tools. The reduction was 3" this is too small.
the tube is 6 inch you say the restriction at the top inlet stage is reduced to 1.5 ok then what is the inside diameter of the air inlet rings I figured 6 inches am i correct or was it bigger. if it was 6 inches the out side would be 8 inches. it was hard to get good measures from the pictures I drew up the model so i could figure out how it would run??? thanks oh was the diameter of the bottom charcoal reduction 3 inches and the tube 6 inches
The pipe reducers are 1.5" to 4" the actual dimension of the larger opening is 4.5" so the jet rings are 4.5" ID. X 6.5 OD"
You do not necessarily need the rings. You can simply space the sections apart. The rings are there to simply contain it.
For the lower charcoal, look at Gary’s simplefire build and simply integrate it into the unit.
I should also mention, this reactor technology has already evolved into next gen versions. So I am more able to offer version one spec’s however, I am going to keep the new revision under wraps.
thanks matt i thought those were the deminsions but i second guessed my self and ended in a bigger size so those air pigs are smaller than they are here in canada.
It dont matter what tanks you use. You could use LP tanks, those portable tanks. what ever you can make work.
The tanks I used for the kit are the 5 gal tanks and they have a 10" diameter. But like I said do not follow the kit build it did not work and was experimental.
ok thanks it will save me time i was more intested in your feeding design.
ha matt do you move every few month or every year i thought you were set up then i just notice you say you were setting up???
No I had moved here to the new facility and have been here for almost two years now. I had started this company in my home garage and with in the first year had moved into a 4500 sq ft commercial building, with full time accounting and 6 employees at the peak. Then the market support fell away until I could no longer sustain that building. So I had moved summer 2017 and was idle for two months until I could get into a temporary building and then moved here March of 2018.
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hope everything goes well some times when i read somthing i glance at it and read the wrong message sorry
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If you guys remember I was tinkering with a printable TEG / Heat battery over the summer. I did contact Robert Murrey Smith to ask for some help. Well here is doing something similar. Not saying he is stealing my idea, I be happy if he did take it on and at least experiment. But here here he is not but it is somewhat similar. I left in the comments exactly how I did and my results so hopefully he at least does a small experiment to see what Im talking about
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It did pretty well for the small temperature difference especially with it being about room temp.
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Yeah here in this video I am producing 2 volts with a single cell. Note after I take the heat away the LED continues to brighten.
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so you are saying that once started your unit will work as a battery and keep working without heat
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