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Other WVO Projects

I have been playing with Waste Vegetable Oil for a while now, and here are some of my other experiments.

My WVO Mercedes 350 SDL 
My WVO Listeroid Generator Project 

Jonah, pretending to be firewood, before we light
the waste wood / WVO boiler for the first time.
The New "ASSMFCGU"

Adler Simultaneous Symbiotic Multi Fuel Co-Generator Unit
working title
 

No, I am not burning greasy kids stuff, this Co-Gen project is a complex one that is almost finished.  I will have pictures and probably a bunch of pages on it coming soon. For you smarty pants who like gadgets, Here is how it works!

I installed an outdoor, waste wood / waste vegetable oil burner and plumed it to three different places on the property using highly insulated, underground tubing to connect the main house, the guest house and the pool court.

My low speed Listeroid engine is installed in the basement of the guest house and plumbed into the same heating system.  I converted it to run only on WVO, and not start on diesel.  I can do this safely because when the engine is not running, it, and the WVO are both constantly kept at full operating temperature by the furnace and are ready to start right up on WVO.  When I run the engine, it will power either a standalone generator that will function as a power back up in the case of a black out, or power another generator that is actually a grid tied unit. 

When the engine is running, it will produce about 8Kw of WVO produced electricity for use anywhere on  the entire compound.  Electricity that is not being consumed on the compound is sent back to the electric grid and will turn the electric meter backwards. A the same time, the waste heat from the engine which everyone else vents to the heavens by a radiator, is instead pumped directly back into the central furnace, providing heat for all buildings, domestic hot water, and even the pool and hut tub.  Talk about eating every part of the proverbial animal!

When lounging naked in the hot tub, with an umbrella drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, with a few beautiful people with trendy names, and whom you don't really know, all around you   -- no more guilty feelings about the glutinous carbon footprint hot tubs and heated pools produce.   hmmm, I wonder how well baby seals burn?

I hope to post pictures of the "ASSMFCGU" by late spring.  

PS Beautiful  people wanted.

Stupid mpg file A silly video of me playing with bio-diesel in a burner gun

I have since stopped trying to atomize WVO with a traditional nozzle.  My tests indicated that the heat and pressure required to properly atomize WVO were impractical.  Another, much better method had to be employed.  See below.
 


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Waste Vegetable Oil Home Heater:

Here is my first, proof of concept. this is about a 40KBTU concept testing construction.

I was able to atomize cold veggie oil and ignite it with 10,000 volts! 

I actually don't put the feed coil directly into the flame as seen here - this was just a test that was photographed.

I like playing with fire.  Fire Good.

I am now automating the prototype system and building a micro controller to adjust all settings dynamically.  The gun will burn any oil based fluid!

My micro controller senses all applicable parameters, and will adjust them in real-time such that you could change the feed fuel back and forth between anything, and the burner would not skip a beat - adjusting all required parameters for the most efficient combustion.

I have been on Ebay for weeks, buying up the most obscure micro sensors, pneumatic controls  and transducers.  My wife thinks I am crazy, so I just tell her that all the packages coming to me every day are just internet porno.

 

 

Hydrogen!

Yeah baby, Hindenburg was framed!

As much as I love WVO, I know it is not the final answer.  I think Hydrogen is awfully neat, considering it lives inside the world's most abundant resource - water.  How cool would it be if electrolysis were improved to make hydrogen more practical to farm? (Answer: VERY)

While there are a lot of major quacks out on the web talking about Zero Point Energy, I am profoundly skeptical and do not believe in magic. 

I have just finished my first draft of the Adler HydrOlar Generator.  It created Hydrogen from plain tap water and sunlight.  I use a patent pending, computer based, dynamic and intelligent system to produce hydrogen with amazing efficiency from very low voltage and low amperage.

 

Check out my new site:

www.HydrOlar.com

Anyone got a match?