[Vwdiesel] 'H' now youve dragged me into the coal mine...

[Harmon Seaver]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:12:57AM +0000, Mark Shepherd wrote:
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> I had a dream a few weeks ago about designing a car to run on flour...You know
> the corn stuff!
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> Weve all heard of the dangers of powders in the air in industry... why not
> build a car (a diesel  CI obviously) that runs on powders?...Powdered
> anything. I should post this on an AE site and I may yet...but AFAIK this is a
> world exclusive!
>
> In my youth I used to work for our Coal Board in the research dept; and
> actually worked on a fluidised bed that ran on pulverised coal...The research
> was meant to lead to the ability to burn pulverised domestic/industrial waste
> to produce low calorific gasses...So lets hit the coal with a hammer and throw
> it in the intake!

   Yes, there are industrial systems now that commercially gasify municipal
waste and make electricity out of it. But rather than go to all the hassle of
designing a special engine to run on dust, why not just build a simple gasifier
and run the diesel you already have on biomass? Woodchips, charcoal, wood
scraps, pine cones, you name it, even lump coal.



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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
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