Vortex barrel incinerator - Overview

Forced air, vortex barrel incinerator I built last weekend.
Two barrels, some steel and aluminum sheet, bench grinder motor, hand made/balanced blower and housing. Better spark arrestor.
Project home: hackaday.io/project/162125

[@yourarborist5270]

Did anybody just start looking at my guys BEAUTIFUL VEIW🤯🤯😍😍

[@kirkstenske9526]

I just finished test runs on the incinerator I'm building currently. I used a 32" diameter, 3/8 wall pipe, 40" tall for the burn chamber, and a 6" tall cut off from a drum for the air chamber. 2- 3" pipes inside the air chamber direct 1200 cfm of air around the drum and into the burn chamber. Burns really clean. Need to layer the garbage with wood to keep an efficient burn going. I still need to make a good lid seal and finish welding up the seams. However first tests show great promise!

[@DarenSchwenke]

Sounds pretty solid! The one I did here the lower barrel will end up being disposable. I give it a year tops. I started with 2.5" air inlet pipes, but I ended up restricting the flow down to a little more than half that with a nozzle of sorts later on. Seemed to make it burn a little hotter. Probably depends on the back pressure your fan tolerates as well. Make sure to post a video so we can check it out. :)

[@mrmundy78]

this is awesome, can you build and ship one of these and I just locally source the barrel, if so how much

[@rwpresley]

Nice incinerator. I can't picture what's going on in the top module. I got a glimpse of the baffle when you raise the lid, but can't visualize it. Are there two air nozzles or one?

[@DarenSchwenke]

There are two. When the lid is up, the one on the left aims straight down into the barrel. Helps to get it going.

[@rwpresley]

Nice touch. Thanks.

[@ananyapaul5062]

Could tell me full specifications of that blower? Like watt, voltage, speed in RPM related to that blower..

[@DarenSchwenke]

It's an inductive bench grinder motor and the blower/housing itself was hand made/balanced. That's the motor he had extra of, that would last. 3600 rpm no-load speed, 1/3hp, capacitor start, 115v, probably about 6-8A. I believe it runs full speed, but I did not measure it. I ended up not needing that much airflow and only need about 1/2 'throttle' for a good burn, so some slightly larger blades and using a regular 1750 rpm motor is probably doable. That would be quieter, and much more tolerant of less than perfect welding as well. The first time I spun that one up, I was about 10 feet away and behind a sheet of plywood. :)

[@ananyapaul5062]

@@DarenSchwenkeThanks. That helped me a lot. Really appreciate your work.

[@freddymeischer2219]

i like it alot. i would ask but ill just google vortex incinerator plans. what konda volume can you load at a time?t

[@DarenSchwenke]

You can load it about 2/3 full and still run clean. Try not to put anything high moisture in until it's fully up to temperature though. You can pretty much see the extent of what was required opening the lid. A plate over the exhaust, at center. Something in the exhaust stream to arrest sparks. Air injection around the edge down at an angle. A good seal where it opens.The rest (preheating the intake air with the upper chamber) is gravy.

[@roythomas5296]

@@DarenSchwenke thank you

[@robinkanick1698]

Can you share a diagram of the cover is made or send me some pics from under. Im trying to build one.

[@DarenSchwenke]

I didn't document this as well as I should have and this stayed in Montana, whereas I'm in TX right now. I will try to update the project linked up in the description end of this weekend.

[@Eric-kz2rt]

Yes please we need a diagram and will pay