Post by socketcap on Sept 30, 2011 17:19:24 GMT -8
Greetings all,
I am really happy there is such a forum, I have been interested well er uhm obsessed actually with bio mass gasification, rocket stoves, etc since 2004 and have collected a
huge pdf library for my own amusment.
I have been procrastinating on actually building something until about a month ago.
My interests all along have been in the area of heating liquids for use in heating my house.
At one time I was contemplating creating my version of Richard Hill's design from the seventies however without a workshop to keep my experiments dry I settled on something
a bit smaller initially for now.
Several years ago I realized without a heat exchanger my experiments would have little value after lots of fabricating so...........through some senior moments recently I
forgot about a small natural gas fired residential boiler that I had stored at a friends house and brought it home and completely disassembled it for the cast iron 2
section heat exchanger in it.
With this cast iron heat exchanger and pressure relief valve and circulator pumps and lot and lots of fittings and all the original gauges and controls I hope to make a
modified rocket stove initially that will be the core of a forced hot water boiler that will initially spend time outside inside a small building.
Originally I was going to make my own fire tube heat exchanger, however I am a BIG fan of recycled engineering and industrial surplus equipment reborn in my projects.
so.........this recycled boiler has
the benefit of being free and also was meant for doing
what I have in mind like heat water in a safe manor and
has the original ASME tag.
Anyway I thought I would share these thoughts to folks
here. I am enclosing some pictures of my recent fabrication
made from 100% recycled steel waste from the place I work for.
The riser is made from a 6" diameter air tank cut at 45 degrees
and the ( forgive my lack of proper terminology ) normally horizontal fuel chamber
that is welded to the riser is made extra large (6"x6") for the purpose of refractory
lining experimentation and I will end up doing lots and lots of tuning to get the air flows
good.
I will be using wood ash as insulation around the modified rocket stove, I would imagine
over time that I will be changing it more and more and will keep the group posted if is such an
interest here.
I will be enclosing a CAD model along with some pictures that I resized to approx 50 to 70 kilobytes in another post
(this post started out as a text file that I composed outside of this forum and when I pasted here it lost its structure)
Sincerely
Socketcap
I am really happy there is such a forum, I have been interested well er uhm obsessed actually with bio mass gasification, rocket stoves, etc since 2004 and have collected a
huge pdf library for my own amusment.
I have been procrastinating on actually building something until about a month ago.
My interests all along have been in the area of heating liquids for use in heating my house.
At one time I was contemplating creating my version of Richard Hill's design from the seventies however without a workshop to keep my experiments dry I settled on something
a bit smaller initially for now.
Several years ago I realized without a heat exchanger my experiments would have little value after lots of fabricating so...........through some senior moments recently I
forgot about a small natural gas fired residential boiler that I had stored at a friends house and brought it home and completely disassembled it for the cast iron 2
section heat exchanger in it.
With this cast iron heat exchanger and pressure relief valve and circulator pumps and lot and lots of fittings and all the original gauges and controls I hope to make a
modified rocket stove initially that will be the core of a forced hot water boiler that will initially spend time outside inside a small building.
Originally I was going to make my own fire tube heat exchanger, however I am a BIG fan of recycled engineering and industrial surplus equipment reborn in my projects.
so.........this recycled boiler has
the benefit of being free and also was meant for doing
what I have in mind like heat water in a safe manor and
has the original ASME tag.
Anyway I thought I would share these thoughts to folks
here. I am enclosing some pictures of my recent fabrication
made from 100% recycled steel waste from the place I work for.
The riser is made from a 6" diameter air tank cut at 45 degrees
and the ( forgive my lack of proper terminology ) normally horizontal fuel chamber
that is welded to the riser is made extra large (6"x6") for the purpose of refractory
lining experimentation and I will end up doing lots and lots of tuning to get the air flows
good.
I will be using wood ash as insulation around the modified rocket stove, I would imagine
over time that I will be changing it more and more and will keep the group posted if is such an
interest here.
I will be enclosing a CAD model along with some pictures that I resized to approx 50 to 70 kilobytes in another post
(this post started out as a text file that I composed outside of this forum and when I pasted here it lost its structure)
Sincerely
Socketcap
