If the 556 kw is the exhaust rejection you're forgetting and equal amount from the cooling system.
Rule of thumb for internal combustion engine is that only about 1/3 of the power generated from the combustion goes to the driven load. Maybe 10% to friction and the rest disappears as heat. Ethan -----Original Message----- From: A Wilkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 11:50 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Brain fart. Any comments Hello, first of all this is just a brain fart. I was toying with the idea of community supplied power from a diesel generator running on WVO. I have located several large generators. The one I was toying with was a 650Kw that uses 174 L/h at 100% load. @ $.20 a litre for WVO the electricity price would have to be .08 Kw/h with a 20.00 month service fee like we have now. This is unlikely to work since Ontario has capped the electricity at .043 Kw/h. But now for the brain fart. With an exhaust temperature of 932 deg Fahrenheit and an engine heat rejection of 556 kw (31614 Btu/mn) and an Alternator heat rejection of 27.7 Kw would it be possible to utilize this heat to generate power in a turbine? This would make the overall efficiency of the generator much higher and the whole idea a lot more feasible. I realize that some of the heat would have to be used to heat the WVO, but I am sure there would still be a lot of heat left over. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Here is the .pdf page with the generator specs. http://www.gensetcentral.com/XS650U.PDF Aidan Wilkins Co-Owner MotorKote of Canada (519)-768-0948 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
