Solar steam engine #1

Solar steam engine #1
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[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Hi everyone! Please be aware that this is an older video and that I have new video's on this subject. Feel free to look around! kzbin.info/aero/PLTYlUGKLEk-E6MYragLDuytHid3MbX6xG

[@casenkeith5696]

instablaster

[@user-ef7wk6gb4k]

have you thought of using pyroceram?

[@davideg5947]

How about adding a Motive flow pump using Venturi effect with ejectors can be used to create ram?

[@storytimefarther4126]

Precisely approximately more or less exactly.... you sir are a ledgend....

[@richardstromquist1]

It is pretty epic...

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

My sentiments exactly!! You stole the words out my brain you legend! That's the best thing I've heard all year! Lmao but in a good not making fun way...not trying to be negative with how awesome this guy is

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

@M Detlef booooo to you sir

[@DreadX10]

Absoposifuckativalutely!

[@nomadfishermanak]

was coming to reply along those same lines lol

[@wynnjames2797]

Had this idea 20 years ago my design was different in that it was a vacuum insulated pressure vessel with quartz sight glass and a carbon rod in the pressure tank there is a recessed cone shaped void in the carbon rod so that you would be hitting the center of the rod not just the surface and you can gravity feed the water to maintain your back pressure with a check valve. Furthermore don't forget the importance of mirrors you could drill a hole in the center of your dish and instead of having your pressure vessel in front of the dish it is behind the dish using parabolic mirrors

[@devilforbadcorruptpersons5837]

MEE TO,,,15 YEARS AGO

[@mickbrumer]

Love your work, but you had me laughing with the line, "Precisely, approximately, more or less exactly" ;) good video thanks

[@huguesmassin8903]

I appreciate a lot to see and hear all modifications on the way to the final set. Very good. Thanks for sharing.

[@PigMine6]

The problem with that steam engine is it has a two-way valve so the forces balance or cancel each other until a major difference in pressure. You need to put a one way valve system on it so air can only flow in one direction

[@recklessroges]

Very useful demonstration of how to refine and combine ideas into a technology.

[@maddhatter3564]

"precisely, exactly ,more or less exactly" nice quote , very confidence inspiring.

[@ZenThruAnger]

Just watched your video and found it quite inspirational to my own thought projects of combining various alternative energy production and storage methods. That system would be great for pumping water, say for a small water tower or for a even larger one in a tier pumping system. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@glenbaker5311]

You're the one who will get these going,,,I like to see the process from one stage to the other,,,,thxs for sharing,,and keep at it,,,gb

[@rico00042]

Awesome! This has been my fix solar for decades. Nice to see it in operation! Counter balance is key on trackers. #AP

[@earthnhand]

This is an awesome channel! Great work.

[@vishwanathanb]

Really appreciate your hard work and dedication....

[@Backwater-wanderer]

This is fascinating! Great work

[@rashmiranjannayak3251]

Nice Project carry on and then scale up after calculation of efficiency. Thanks for sharing.

[@WhatAWondWorld]

It is interesting. Excellent! Thanks

[@profesorenlinearefrigeracionye]

Thank you very much for this video! Congrats from Argentina

[@TULRICK]

Great video Sir !!! you certainly got me smiling ! run run RUN AWAY. Some other youtubers cut out the bad stuff and then cheat. You show it as it is. keep them coming ........

[@williamwest6387]

Precisely approximately more or less exactly. We went to the same engineering school, I see. Let everyone decide what can't be done, then go out and do it.

[@donovandelaney3171]

The first one was in 1866. Tesla tried it and failed.

[@korycoleman8971]

I love it absolutely brilliant

[@ozakarisozacra6499]

I am sure you will figure it out, this is the way great inventions come alive... all good..!!!

[@andyellem]

Awesome work :)

[@9035]

Precisely approximately more or less exactly...great description!

[@shrirangtambe4360]

Kudos for the persistence....

[@abuhamza6817]

Actually , your channel is so great and useful , thank you

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

That's so nice!!! Thank you very much for the appreciation!

[@duelette]

Thanks for sharing you save a lot of people a lot of time by your own experiments! Keep it up please!

[@timmsmiithgm557]

I love it: "the center of mass is precisely, approximately, more-or-less exactly..." So, you used to be a politician?

[@akashsasidharan9747]

Brilliant !

[@ericg8854]

I love this concept! And it's completely scalable! I'm going to build a full scale boiler that burns it's highest and hottest of a bright sunny day!

[@thamerali9697]

Well done .you did your best

[@gordonfamilyforge134]

Great seeing experimenters keep up the great work, be safe and have fun.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! Yes experimentation is the best! ;)

[@mohammadsajib9677]

carry on bro... u worked hard

[@dragonfly3714]

Great video ❤️❤️

[@rapunzeleh546]

approximately precisely more or less exactly.... now THAT made me laugh! :)

[@rajinikanthsp]

Thank you sir very nice efforts and inspiring

[@Muhammadasif-yz6qj]

Brilliant idea

[@GreenPlanet30]

Awesome!!

[@REDSLibrary]

Nice work

[@gregonit1]

Your videos inspire...so friken cool. From the Smoky mountains

[@hrevyaga82]

Put a safety pressure regulator to vent the vessel if the pressure rises too high. The vent can always be used to preheat the water before it goes in.

[@AA-gl1dr]

I’m so happy I found this I’ve been trying to figure out how to do exactly this. You’re a genius!

[@middleway1885]

What a fun episode...

[@romanhanajik3185]

9:16 nice sound!

[@user-vq4mt4zd4e]

great content thanks

[@sideswipe147]

Your steam is cooling before it hits the engine. Also might help to bring the cylinder and piston up to temperature so the steam stays steam as it passes through.

[@ana1alanani]

Thank you Sir I’m thinking of adding the pressure effect in a close bottle will heat up more and make it more efficient

[@yem.t.3930]

0:43 " the center of mass is precisely, approximately, more or less, exactly at the point of rotation " haha LMAO

[@stefan8818]

Awesome!

[@mattman3420]

Beautiful

[@Ademx33]

Nice ideaa. Steam Era is coming baack.

[@Acappellaokecom]

5:09 WTF?!?!?! LOL Great video! I precisely, approximately, more-or-less, exactly love it!!!

[@containerseightandnine9756]

really interesting , i'm subscribing

[@Chronicles-qf6dz]

Very cool

[@PinkProgram]

oh hey someone actually did this ^_^ I've been suggesting solar pumped steam engines for the better part of a decade.

[@davidwayschannel28]

ZETACON4: Since no one has yet thanked you for your expert thermal input I thought to myself, self...why don't you go ahead and thank the man ya damn-self! And you know what, I believe I will... THANK YOU ZETACON4!!!

[@OmidGipsy-vu1qu]

Very nice

[@robbietineke]

lekker man! Heerlijk in je tuin je hobby uitvoeren! En op de echte doe het zelf manier. Met ijzerdraadjes enzo. Ga zo door!

[@fabriglas]

This is what I needed, think I will need something to have back up power

[@JackMyhoff-wy5mc]

>Dinosaurs, Rockefeller Coniferous tree sap from when the entire earth was covered in one species of tree, you can refine sap straight from a live tree into E85

[@theotherJarvisx51]

wood fired steam is probably the way to go on an industrial scale.

[@PaDesactivarInquisidores]

Genial!

[@gasparcunha]

Parece um cara honesto.(seems to me he is a honest guy.

[@tas6967]

Good idea

[@zetacon4]

Dude, all you really need is to talk with a knowledgeable thermal engineer and many of your bad guesses will no longer be necessary. You figured out the thermal coefficient of aluminum and water. Why did you stop there? The pressure/thermal properties of many materials are freely available online. Start there and find appropriate materials for your parts. By the way, when steam leaves your primary heating chamber (receiver), you must be sure to insulate your line all the way to your steam engine intake. A great deal of energy is lost by cooling if you fail to do this. Second, ditch that reciprocating leaky mess and go straight to a very efficient Tesla turbine. You won't regret it. You will need a small pressure tank between the receiver and the turbine to allow for pressure smoothing and volume adjustments. Remember, each stage of your system must be checked for energy losses. This goes all the way to your generator!. You can botch up the whole project by loosing a little here and a little there. Using steam can be a very interesting and enjoyable energy transfer medium. But, the main drawback is being diligent to reduce ALL losses in the whole system. If you choose to continue using glass, be absolutely sure you are using pyrex high temperature glass, like the type used in baking. NO more low-temp untempered crap. Steel works very well. Just blacken a small patch with soot from a flame to accept your solar energy . Keep it very thin. Use rock wool as the insulating blanket around your steel receiver. Use copper tubing from the steel receiver all the way to your Tesla turbine jet injector. Insulate this tubing with rock wool covered in aluminum foil. Remember to thermally insulate the part that holds your receiver or it will bleed off a huge amount of energy right at the receiver! Best to hold it with two hose clamps outside the insulation blanket. Do the same with the copper tubing going to the turbine. Follow this advice and you will have half of a good electric generating system. The other half is the generator and regulator and beyond.

[@erikschiegg68]

But thermal engeneers do not make stuff for ordinary people with a small budget. If thermal engeneers do something, it's always megalomania. Just after the big money with big projects.

[@p38sheep]

Completely agree. This could be done cheaply and on a small scale with no problems.

[@davidwayschannel28]

ZETACON4: Since no one has yet thanked you for your expert thermal input I thought to myself, self...why don't you go ahead and thank the man ya damn-self! And you know what, I believe I will... THANK YOU ZETACON4!!!

[@LFTRnow]

I'd like to watch zetacon4's vids on this instead. That isn't a sarcastic dig - he clearly knows what he is doing and would be interesting to watch.

[@teletien2477]

Am looking for a solar steam system for poolheating. Is that for sale?

[@poweredbysergey]

Cool!

[@69NOMAN69]

who said the back yard mechanics and inventors were dead. =+1 sub : )

[@RonaldRaiden]

It is the best form of innovation because it can be done on a small scale for lower cost prototypes

[@saeed6811]

Take a garden funny pipe or copper pioe if you can work it out then put it as a coil all over the TV dish. No need to polish the dish. Let the sun hit the whole dish with its area coiled. You will get immense ammount of heat without making a receiver. The whole dish will be the reciever.

[@srfrg9707]

Stirling, dude. Stirling.

[@lilpmac260]

I love this person's work so much! I wish it had more attention. Not to mention that solar steam engines are what should be used more. Making a more intricate ride on rail or road while also eliminating gas, oil or coal. (unfortunately this design isn't what I had in mind :c )

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks so much! Maybe you like the concept for my solar steam engine 2.0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWa4lWB8eZhmqqs

[@JohnSmith-tw3rw]

Well if we can have a solar steam engine then back to a solar car. Its simple technology to make a stam engine as its very similar to piston driven by a hydraulic system except solar thermal power is free.

[@CountryBoyMakinNoise]

It would be a great idea for power. But what are we going to do it night? Lol it’s not gonna be sunny all the time everyday either.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Did you already see this video of mine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWa4lWB8eZhmqqs

[@lilpmac260]

@@CountryBoyMakinNoise Well caleb the design is more or less for day time consumption. Most of your household electronics (depending on what they are consumption wise) don't always have the need to be on, either you'll be at work or at some other location at a certain time, leaving your items around the house to be in an idle charge, the kinetic energy created by your generator unit(s) provide a collective source of energy that should be stored in a battery terminal that will more than likely provide in home reserve for events like black out or constant use with some sell back to the city power system if you really wanted.

[@briangingras5886]

Nice i was looking for some thing like this video being run by the sun for electric

[@jeebangurung7014]

Solar steam engines are suitable in hill side villages. Thanx for show.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

In this video I explain the why and how: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWa4lWB8eZhmqqs

[@MrCountrycuz]

pressure cooker painted black and exposed to the your heat ray should do the job.

[@mba2ceo]

exactly !!!

[@forcesightknight]

A clay coated Fire extinguisher, it will take pressure and heat, it also has a threaded collar.

[@mohannadmalik5373]

10:20 there is a special thermal paste you can apply

[@erickim8934]

One of the most underrated channels ever

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thank you so much for the appreciation! And pleas spread the word! ;)

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

Lose the insulation and add a thermostat from a car in the line.when the water reaches a temp to high for glass it will release pressure . Update video after.

[@7lovefreedom]

@@TheDIYScienceGuy The idea is interesting but made of shit, you need to take other materials.

[@cristangratzianfarkas9582]

Bleah..

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[@moonolyth]

This is a job for .... yes you guessed it, "Clean Coal" or is it Green Coal, any way Id insolate all the way to the engine, but I think first you need to find a disk twice the size and more polish. ... Great looking engine you have there. Super fantastico! my friend.

[@fakharraza9557]

He pissed at that bottle 😂

[@JG-mp5nb]

The use of the glass container made me reflect oh so briefly about the lad who made a fission reactor in his bedroom.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Potato tomato!

[@balmoralwatersportscentere909]

Thanks

[@calvingreene90]

Using a non-tracking solar water heater to preheat the water for the steam generator will greatly increase your steam production.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Yes good idea thanks!

[@forcesightknight]

Nice video. Although your thermal receiver needs work. Try a small propane tank, empty of course, with >> valves in and out. Cover the tank with clay cob made with that rock wool and char it up so it's black. It will boost your thermal capabilities a bit. You don't need to follow the sun if you use more than one reflector, 3 old satellite dishes will work, just get them to shine. Thanks for posting, keep up the experimental research.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! 👍

[@september1683]

At 0:42 ... the center of mass is precisely, approximately more or less exactly at the point of rotation ... :-) [funniest statement ever] it made my day :-)

[@blackadder4590]

Ik kijk al een tijdje naar jouw filmpjes, maar nu kom ik er pas achter dat je een landgenoot bent.. Hahaha. Je Engels is wat dat betreft perfect!

[@1943L]

I am English but, ik hoorde direkt dat Nederlands uitspraak. Geweldig video :-)

[@luciusirving5926]

I think I'll power a steam engine with a sawdust stove, but this is a cool CSP prototype.

[@inaampakistan]

Great bro .. i was thinking about something like that.. but i thought to use magnifying glass but it would b costly and less secure.. thank you

[@empathyisonlyhuman7816]

Aside from leaks, I can see one additional issue for your project. Your incoming water supply may be at too low a pressure to counter that being produced by the steam. A simple solution is to run the copper tubing into the bottle and allowing it to fill the bottle from the bottom instead of from the top. Once you also increase your water pressure to sufficient levels and address all the leaks you should see some limited success with this design. Just remember that your incoming water pressure must counter the outgoing steam pressure or you will get reverse water flow into your water source. The most efficient way to generate the needed water pressure is via a water tower that is sufficiently high above the boiling chamber and that is maintained at a sufficient volume of water so that it's weight/height differential can be balanced via valves to your steam pressure output. Finally by running your steam exhaust back up to your tower, at least part of that exhaust steam can be cooled to reclaim and reuse water. This will help to minimize the energy cost of running water up to the tower.

[@RadiantCandyEye]

Photomontage fixing spray and Skylar sheet does it too for the parabolic mirror, under 5 min work. Try it. No critic, amazed by your work. ❤

[@WhatDadIsUpTo]

Great idea in general, but you are doing it the hard way. I have a circular tracking concentrating mirror, which weighs, including the boiler filled with water, less than 3 lb and concentrates 12 running feet by 8 in of sunlight down to a line. On a clear day, it makes more steam then I can use. I run the steam through a turbine and a reduction transmission, then to a generator, which makes enough electricity to run my air conditioner for free in the summer on clear days.

[@AJRestoration]

copper, brazing and solder.

[@technicaladviser8356]

You have much money to spend for experiments but I don't have, even I am not much wealthy and rich in money but let me tell you one thing surprising here, I never seen any steam engine in my life but one day I decided to make one steam engine and I had asked to my friends about that but 100% people laugh on me but I said I will do that and I will complete it with my own knowledge and within three days I will complete my project. There was many expert mechanics around my shop and they had laugh on me but I had start work on my steam engine and the third day I invited all those mechanics to watch my engine running and then they was surprised and I had seen their face was smiling but they was ashamed on their attitudes that they was laughing but I prove them my spiritual skill. That was an antique design in steam engines still I have in my junk store.

[@stevenfeil7079]

FOUR commercials before it was even half over..... last time I come here.

[@WojciechP915]

Pool solar heaters can out out 120 F easily. Use one of those as or after a condenser so the fluid stays as hot as possible. Insulate everything.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks! 👍

[@jamest.5001]

I been planning something like this for a WHILE!! I was thinking focous about 4-6 dish, on about 1cubic foot box, with internal fins, to allow more surface area. I want to spin a small turbine, if I could generate 10-20 amps it would be great! For my 24v system, I want to use radiators inside, to heat my house, (somewhat!) And condense the steam i may use a wood stove to help this along! But 500-600 watts when there is NO sun would be awesome! Maybe have a multiple stage , compound system, where water is slowly pumped and heated in about 300-400cc chambers, in front of a dish, maybe a Fresnel lense on the opposite side, all tracking, surely by the end it will just be super heating the steam! And I just about bet money, a brass, or copper box would work much better, I tried all kinds of matereals with my soldering iron, the copper tip was the only one that worked! The aluminum cooled so fast it was useless!! Maybe you can find a large plumbing fitting, like a 2" tee, and some plugs, and drill and tap for smaller fittings, just thinking, my iron got hot enough the copper glowed in dim light, but wouldn't melt solder, with anything else, thermal dynamics, will always win!!

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Ok so ideas enough! 😉 have fun with the experiments!

[@ChristopherPetersonR2d2]

If you do a compound parabolic reflector where the focal point reflector focuses a beam through a hole in the center just behind the dish you can use a TEG array and use a ground loop for your delta.

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

Thanks for the tip, however, I first want the steam engine to run on solar energy 😉

[@jameselliott9397]

Would it be a good idea to run steam engine exhaust through a coil around your boiler as insulator or through it to recycle some energy?

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

In my new steam engine setup I definitely going to implement an energy recovery system.

[@tritile]

"precisely, approximately, more less exactly"

[@TheDIYScienceGuy]

😜

[@Gribbo9999]

That's the difference between engineering and science.

[@MrCountrycuz]

You need a constant trickle water supply flowing into the bottle as steam blows off the exit line.

[@Barskor1]

WATER BOILS AT ROOM TEMP IN A VACUUM just have to chambers and a condenser wit one way valves in the system.

[@bledlbledlbledl]

6:03 it's Bender's head ! (from Futurama)

[@chrislord2469]

Good wishes