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[evolvingape]

Hi Chet,

I am glad you think the information flows as that tells me I have done a good job in communicating my thoughts.

Hopefully turbines are not so difficult now for people to begin playing with at home, it is the way forward and so a way needed to be found to make that happen.

Your all quite lucky that I have never had much money, this forced me to improvise and work as cheap as possible without compromising safety, in the hope I could afford to build some of my stuff one day. If I had the resources to build whatever I wanted it would all have been custom one off components designed for a specific prototype.

It appears there is method in the universe's madness...

Anyway, I had one of those “how could you be so stupid” moments earlier which has moved things forward quite substantially.

The issue was sealing. When I first started working on the sealing problem for the HHO PCT it was purely a hot rotor running from the LFV. This meant that temperatures were very high and was why I gravitated towards ceramic gaskets.

It was not until after I had done the thinking on the hot rotor sealing that I decided to use the K Valve system to cool the rotor. So when I came to write it all up for you I simply pulled it out of my mind in the order I had worked on it.

The problem was I never went back and looked at sealing again even though I had added water cooling to the engine.

I have now gone back and looked at the issue again while I was working on the Mini Turbine and realised my error.

Syngas is not going to run as hot as HHO, and now the rotor is water cooled as part of the pressure wave buffering concept of the two different working fluids within the rotor. This means we could probably use cork gasket material in exactly the same way as a cork head gasket on an ICE.

http://www.rhnuttall.co.uk/Materials/Cork.html

The beauty of this is that cork provides excellent water tight and air tight capabilities and there is already a massive industry around to provide custom cut gaskets. You can order gaskets in the same way as you order the waterjet cut disks.

I have put up a modified prototype diagram to show you only need two gaskets that seal the ring plates to the side plates when the rotor is compressed.

RM

[ElectricGoose]

OK lads, you ready for the next step in your educative evolution?  No puns intended Mr Ape.   

So, you are beginning to see that the Catalytic process is the way to go and that one can EASILY achieve beyond 80% fuel efficiency with this method.  However, is this as good as it gets?  Hell no!  There are ways hybridize this proccess so that you dont need to mess with heaters, preheaters, huge gasifying tanks and the like.  You just have to SEE what is going on.  These devices can get so small they fit in the palm of your hand.

Related to Gasifiers are Reformers which produce Hydrogen for use in PEMFC's or (Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells).  There are many ways to 'reform' fuel (cold and hot) with marked differences in efficiency and energy output.

DONT LET THE WORD 'FUEL CELL' AND THOUGHTS OF PLATINUM PLATES ETC SCARE YOU.  For now, we are not focussing on the PEMFC part (where the hydrogen is pushed through fuel cell membrane to produce electrical current) but rather examining the plasma gas reformer which produces the hydrogen efficiently.  If you understand the energy process and how to interface the keys, it is not necessary to buy expensive materials in order to 'produce' energy.

Here is a paper that is VERY EASY reading.  The plasma reformer you can make at home produces Hydrogen and other gases if utilizing ethanol and water.  This is very easy to construct and makes the HHO booster look like a caveman joke (which it is).  Properly tuned, this cell will EASILY run your vehicle at the 60% efficiency stakes.  Build a sizeable one and you are off petroleum entirely and burning only small amounts of ethanol with mainly water.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:huD6vn6QSa8J:pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2005/cc10.1039/b412552e+miniature+pemfc+hydrogen+reformer&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjSFqUgfGmnFSbPaNquyz_UhTaq20BGMmIR_-10TBcddL-bEVZ_N0YVcFOBCKzLP_7mxM4s8t34b4P4nE-sKgKO4508He48ybDFPvWJ16ZR2wUOEKAm0ihhcuGJna7tl8cSMu81&sig=AHIEtbRWqYCp_mWkfHA5KKKKeg8Vb8VSWg

Open your minds people.  Youre still not thinking big enough.

[evolvingape]

It's ok Mr Goose, you can poke fun at me, I don't mind

The more you learn the less you know...

Very interesting article you put up there, certainly got my attention!

I did a little digging and it appears tow is the keyword we need for finding carbon fibres:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tow

"In the composites industry, a tow is an untwisted bundle of continuous filaments, and it refers to man-made fibres, particularly carbon fibres (also called graphite)."

So now we know what we are looking for we can find this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Carbon-Fibre-24K-Tow-20-Metres-Ultra-High-Modulus-/330565005324?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item4cf735b00c

and there is lot's more available on the web:

http://www.microflight.com/Carbon-Tow-6K-6000-strand

http://www.easycomposites.co.uk/Departments/carbon-fibre-tow-tape-unidrectional.aspx

http://www.fibreglast.com/product/24K_Carbon_Tow_2293/156

I was thinking perhaps we could use some heat shrink tubing to compress multiple bundles into a tube:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=heat+shrink+tube&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Seems like I now have an excuse to dust off my 5000V DC power supply for a new application, but not sure yet if it will be appropiate as the Amps are very low. Something for me to think about anyway

RM

[ElectricGoose]

RM

Certainly not making fun of you mate 

Regarding your HV DC power supply, the 5000VDC should be more than enough to start some testing.  If you have some inductors, and HV caps and a Ignition Coil you can make a spark gap oscillator and beef up the output.

[evolvingape]

Good advice Mr Goose, Thanks

I will have to read up on spark gap oscillators before I can make one, I am not an EE and all my limited knowledge is self taught.

This certainly looks like an experiment that I can do within my budget, with the equipment I already have, so interested in this

Things are moving so fast at the moment it is hard to focus.

RM