I have had a reply from Harmon Seaver which was meant for the list: On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:12:17PM +0100, AJH wrote: > melt. An axial steam turbine coupled to a centrifugal fan could well > work and be formed from tincanium, bearings would be a problem. There > would be no need for a common shaft as such as they could be formed on > the same "propeller", like the bypass fan on a jet. > If a simple (cheap) bearing solution could be found, I think this is by far the most excellent idea yet put forth. Think of the fans at the bottom of the stove with the flash steam tube in the upper secondary burn area -- designed right it would also avail a control via the amount of water put in, i.e., the stove would self-reduce to a simmer when the water ran out. Or a dab more water added later to burn up the charcoal. Perhaps even better, wouldn't the steam from the fans come up into the coals and break down, adding H to the woodgas, as is done with bigger gasifiers? Or would it dampen the fuel too much? -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com - Stoves List Archives and Website: http://www.crest.org/discussion/stoves/200204/ http://crest.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/ > Stoves List Moderators: Ron Larson, ronallarson@qwest.net Elsen L. Karstad, elk@wananchi.com www.chardust.com > List-Post: <mailto:stoves@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:stoves-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:stoves-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:stoves-subscribe@crest.org> > Sponsor the Stoves List: http://www.crest.org/discuss3.html - Other Biomass Stoves Events and Information: http://www.bioenergy2002.org http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1010424940_7.html Bioenergy http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975339_7.html Gasification http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1011975672_7.html Carbon > For information about CHAMBERS STOVES >http://www.repp.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/Chambers/Chambers.htm
