Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Advanced Electronics => Topic started by: Jared43758 on May 15, 2016, 06:33:48 AM
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Has anyone ever come up with a idea to use your owb to produce electricity. Even if it was only enuff to power its self, blower, pump.
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I ran last years show G 200 with my 3500 watt Brigs on the gasses for a very brief time but the timing needed to be adjusted and wasn't, the result was a broken crankshaft!
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I wasn't really thinking something that used a engine because of the low life high maintence. I was thinking of something that used the heat to create electricity, like how solar makes electricity or wind turbines do. Not sure if something exsisted. If it doesn't it should
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There are units out there that use heat for electricity but they are very expensive with a never ending payback and low output.
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I can’t find it know, but a european company makes a unit that fits in the exhaust stack, works as the same principle as a stirling engine except uses helium if I remember correctly, very expensive and only produced at most 1kw.
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You could use peltier junctions. Especially if you used it in the winter, because they work best with a large temperature differential. That's what's in those little stove top fans that run off the heat of the stove. Hardly make any power though.
Ben
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http://www.stirlingengineforum.com/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=32a455c62131997ba8225040a0ebd405