hmmm im trying to imagine what your suggesting, a magnetic drive would transfer the spinning of the turbine shaft to the generator via a magnetic field?
yeah i never really thought about the belt not being able to handle those types of speeds, there could be lots of stretching and too many inertial loads. thanks for helping through that.
so i guess i need to research steam generation more using diesel exhaust to turn at a lower speed.
yeah your right, i was kind of vague with my description, and that's something need to work on. i was thinking about using the a stripped down turbocharger, but i would have to go through at least a 10:1 gear ratio reduction being that the turbo charger will spool to RPM's of 100,000 and the...
thank you for calculating that out, but not really looking to save anytype of money. the 1L diesel engine is strictly a APU for our experimental hybrid, and we are just trying to suck as much electricity from anywhere that we can. and so far we have utilized almost every system in the car to...
yeah and the preheated water can just come from the coolant system as long as its pure h20. then a condenser will needed to be added it line after the steam turbine, but that idea is definitely achievable. I'd still like to explore the options of using a exhaust driven generator. i've herd of a...
I'm looking to capture waste heat to generate electricity. my first idea was to use a centrifugal supercharger but in effect use it in reverse, by changing out the compressor blade for a turbine blade and using the pulley to drive a generator.
One of my concerns is that the centrifugal...
