Thanks for the pictures. Nice machine!
Bernhard

I think it is fuel maybe because running a cold engine. Or just blowby.
Vegitable oil can give nice gunk.
Regards bernhard.

Interesting to follow,

Once I had ideas about trying to use a clothes dryer/spinner. They are out of fashion and you can pick them up for cheap. Should give some G's and they should keep the mess in the enclosure.

regards bernhard

To be honest I don't get the question completely I am lost with fahrenheit en BTU's.

A lister 6-1 running 3 kw load, has maybe 30% efficiency(probleby less) the rest is heat losses, exhaust most and cooling water. so 7kw of heat.

There is a formula Q= m*c*deltaT  m is mass the amount of liters c is constant of water times the temp difference. Just google it.

You can roughly calculate how many hours it takes to heat up a boiler.

I used a 800 liter boiler and in mild weather say 10 degr celsius, I produced more then I used so had to stop the lister.

hope it helps

Bernhard


   

Took a picture with my phone from paper now it all looks bent. Other picture is showing part of the box and my exhaust cooler. It's all black because of the cleaning of the clogged up cooler each time. A job to look forward to.
Pipe going in the box is pvc sewer pipe 110mm I guess. Exhaust gas is below 90degr celcius so After the cooler its all plastic.
You can see my olive green ceiling tiles every where these also in the box.

So I made 4 chambers, really overkill it's absurd silent.

I have a small alley in between my house and the nabours where the exhaust exits, with a previous version I had it all silent but the thump of the exhaust you felt in your stomach the moment you entered the alley.

For the design improvements, inside it looks like a black hole combined with chernobyl. I experimented with fuels and had a stuck injector once.....
Lister cs does not run on HFO380 even when it's hot and mixed with a lot of diesel.....

I need to take it out but the mess it will give is keeping me from it.

Hope it helps for your project

regards Bernhard

I do not comment a lot on your posts but I am always following. I still have one and a half of these to finish I am jealous of your progress. Looks fantastic can't wait for the video and soundtrack of the first start.

Regards Bernhard

Hey glort, I think electromotor is approx 8kw, it's two speed dahlander. I always started the lister with it so this should be a lot easier.

On paper it should be profitable, electricity I generate pays for the fuel and then the generated heat is the profit.

But it's a hobby gives you an excuse to play with engines, and gives you something to show people if some birthday visitors come over.

It doesn't matter if hobbies cost money, if you leave out all the costs apart from fuel you make money just don't count the rest...

Bernhard

Ok for this reason I got a three fase connection at home, here in holland every house has 3 fases but mostly only one fase is connected. If you connect a 3 fase motor to the grid it wil run with slip so the more power you take off the motor the more slip you have.

If you run the motor without load it will run at 1497 rpm (guess), the more load the more slip rpm drops. But if you 'overspeed' the motor you start generating.
The stator with all the windings creates the rotating field and pulls along the simple steel rotor but if you drive the rotor you will push the field in the stator.

I spend a lot of time on this and to my recollection it was my own invention to find out later loads of guys were doing the same.

I used up more then a 1000 liters of fuel so I hope it worked......

Nice thing is you can start your engine with your generator...

Regards Bernhard