Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
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I have been looking at ways to process waste streams into a usable fuel source for quite some time. There are many ways to do this, but nothing Low Cost, clean, and efficient. From all my research I have extrapolated a potential solution but I am an infant in the microwave realm and need help to see if it is feasable.
I have focused on rubber because it is hard to process, so if we can process that then everything else should also work.
Some research that I followed:
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I am including a sketch that I drew up of my vision of a microwave sonic reaction chamber. Please let me know what you think and if it looks doable then I would like to see this technology in the public domain to reduce the worlds reliance on petroleum.
I have focused on rubber because it is hard to process, so if we can process that then everything else should also work.
Some research that I followed:
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I am including a sketch that I drew up of my vision of a microwave sonic reaction chamber. Please let me know what you think and if it looks doable then I would like to see this technology in the public domain to reduce the worlds reliance on petroleum.





RE: Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
you could setup antenna feeds and elliptical reflector shapes on your walls to greatly heat your material in the center of your vessel. But phase control would probably not be useful based on your diagram. Microwaves heat from the outside in. You can focus them, but not to super heat material quickly.
MRI machines at Duke University use focusing for slight heating of cancerous tumors inside a body, but the key part is "slight" heating.
Are you proposing this to someone who has funding?
kch
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The shell and ceramic lining can be modified to make a thinner cavity if needed.
Funding: Currently I have no direct project to put this against, but I do work with an automotive recycler that is paying to remove auto fluff.
RE: Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
Microwaves move electrons creating friction and thereby heating. You can only heat material. It's essentially a microwave oven that's concentrated.
If you need to super heat a tube of material, you can do that with microwaves.
Ultrasonics use 10,000 to 100,000 cycles per second sound waves and are used to create friction for heating (human cancer heating).
Microwave ovens use 2,450,000,000 cycles per second.
This is a million dollar development job minumum.
kch
RE: Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
So you say it's possible!
It is not just to super heat the material, you only need to get above 475 F, the ultrasonic creates a shearing effect to the hydrocabon chains, the heat makes them more volatile.
RE: Open Source Microwave Sonic Biofuel reaction chamber
So will you propose both ultrasonic and microwave in the same chamber?
kch
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kch
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As the water molecules rotate, they bump other molecules causing them to begin moving randomly. The process is like frictional heating. Microwave energy converts to heat energy by causing the molecules in food to increase the speed of their random motions.
Read more: "How Do Microwave Ovens Work? Heating Water Molecules in Food with Electromagnetic Waves |
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The mixing medium is going to be the process material, recycled waste (plastic, rubber, and misc. stuff). Do you know of any examples or literature on combining two MW signals to produce sonic waves?
PS: To be clear all information in this thread is intended for public knowledge, not locked up and restricted to licensed commercial use.
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I am talking about moving the air without the use of a loudspeaker.
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