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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Yeah ..sawing your own legs out from under you for gain just doesn't make a whole lot of sense ..but no one wants to "float" someone else on their nickle either. So we are where we are.
Q: Do any of you water cooled diesel owners co-gen with the coolant and/or exchanging (or outright using) the exhaust?
On my long range (never probably ever to be completed) plans was to get a smaller water cooled diesel that I would vent the exhaust through my steam boiler ..recirc the coolant too. It's a low pressure system so it remains just above boiling. I just don't know if I can balance the thermal output with the heat demands ..or if I'll be way mismatched on the size of the diesel and therefore the gen set capacity.
If you can see what I'm struggling to communicate.
I'd hate to waste all that heat when I have a place to soak it up.
I didn't know tecumseh folded, wonder if I can get parts for my snowblower now. Am I dreaming, or did walmart once embrace a "made in the USA" theme on the products they carried? I also buy from the little guy for a few more bucks when possible. As for recovering waste heat from a genset, I think the most practical approach would be to harness exhaust heat into some form of liquid-based heat exchanger for room/garage heating, or maybe water heating, but I would think a boiler setup is asking too much from a residential unit. Commercial might be another story. Another approach might be to apply the otherwise wasted exhaust heat to a fabricated system for heating svo/wvo for fueling, as opposed to wasting generated power to heat and burn the stuff. Anyone have any input on the three cylinder mitsubishi/perkins/isuzu generators, before I drop a bunch of coin?
Yeah ..sawing your own legs out from under you for gain just doesn't make a whole lot of sense ..but no one wants to "float" someone else on their nickle either. So we are where we are.
Q: Do any of you water cooled diesel owners co-gen with the coolant and/or exchanging (or outright using) the exhaust?
On my long range (never probably ever to be completed) plans was to get a smaller water cooled diesel that I would vent the exhaust through my steam boiler ..recirc the coolant too. It's a low pressure system so it remains just above boiling. I just don't know if I can balance the thermal output with the heat demands ..or if I'll be way mismatched on the size of the diesel and therefore the gen set capacity.
If you can see what I'm struggling to communicate.
I'd hate to waste all that heat when I have a place to soak it up.
I didn't know tecumseh folded, wonder if I can get parts for my snowblower now. Am I dreaming, or did walmart once embrace a "made in the USA" theme on the products they carried? I also buy from the little guy for a few more bucks when possible. As for recovering waste heat from a genset, I think the most practical approach would be to harness exhaust heat into some form of liquid-based heat exchanger for room/garage heating, or maybe water heating, but I would think a boiler setup is asking too much from a residential unit. Commercial might be another story. Another approach might be to apply the otherwise wasted exhaust heat to a fabricated system for heating svo/wvo for fueling, as opposed to wasting generated power to heat and burn the stuff. Anyone have any input on the three cylinder mitsubishi/perkins/isuzu generators, before I drop a bunch of coin?