boiler project is started

[pepa]

I have most of the design worked out now and have a good start on project  the burner is working great and most or the parts are in hand to put the home heating and hot water preheat parts of this project into operation. Still Waiting for my son to deliver the other fifty feet of ¾ soft copper tubing so I can close the unit and fire it up. The picture shows the converted hwh with air supply and hot air exit pipe in place. The ten inch lines will tie into the return and hot lines on my exterior heat pump unit and will be controlled by the thermostat and fan for the heat pump. The coiled copper pipe will tie into the cold water and the feed line to the hot water heater. The heat exchanger for the sterling engines is in place as well as the finished stack. A chamber will enclose the hwh boiler to make the outside of the burner heat area enclosed and this will be insulated and rapped in sheet metal to retain heat and protection from the weather. I still need the copper coils for the hot water to the pool and the ice maker. The water to cool the cold side of the sterling engine will be from the pool side of the heater coil before it inters the heat exchanger inside the boiler. The ice maker heat exchanger will be on the exit side of the boiler hot water lines with both hot water lines running through it. More later, pepa






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[windstuffnow]

  How large is the stirling engine going to be?  Are you going to actually boil the water or just heat it?

  Good start so far !

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[pepa]

hello Ed. thanks for the comment and i hope you will keep an eye on me with this project  to keep me from screwing up to much. i built your tin can stirling and had a lot of fun with it and i follow all of your post and your web site. the heat exchanger built into the stack should get super hot and with one third of the hot end of the displacement chamber installed inside the exchanger, i should get a very quick buildup of heat pressure in the chamber, to drive the rod. i am still studying the principle of the stirling and have researched everything i can find. i think the two-piston engine design from Anerican stirling will give me the best proformance for this setup and i would like to have multiple engines turning the same crankshaft. the design is something like a v6 auto block arrangement with three hot chambers (imbedded in the exchanger) on one side and three cooling chambers (encased in a water jacket, on the other side and a short pipe for air exchange connecting the hot and cold chambers. i have not desided on a size yet, but leaning toward six inch dia. because i have some thick wall six inch metal pipe that should hold the heat and give me about six inches of rod travel on the heat side. hope it works, pepa

[ghurd]

Looks like a microwave project is on the way?

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[pepa]

hi Ghurd, i have about twenty units ready to tear down at the moment. i have already processed about sixty micros so far and have buckets of good parts for projects and always bring them home when i find them. one day i want to build a generator with a stator about four foot in dia and turn it with a large merry-go-round type device. it will need a lot of magnets and wire which the micros furnish. i have a exercise device for working the horses that has four poles to make the horses walk in a circle of about twenty five foot dia. something like an old cane grinder. a large dia generator that is geared up and pulled by four horses should produce a lot of electricity and exercise the horses at the same time or use the horses one or two at the time and extend the production time to as long as needed. i have also seen these cane grinders turned with a self powered garden tractor, this is just an idea that i have though about. enjoying myself, pepa.

[windstuffnow]

  Wow !  Sounds like quite a machine!  Fun project.   I was hoping to get my stirling finished up enough to test run it but I'm running a little behind and I'm not sure it will be ready.  Pretty close though.  Next week for sure.  I'll post some pics when its running...

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[ghurd]

Wow!  60 + 20 = 80!

My wife would kill me.  Some more.  Again.

Please check for an email from me.

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