[Gasification] blower suggestions?

[Daniel Chisholm]

On Fri, 2007-10-08 at 08:03 -0500, Paul S. Anderson wrote:

> Does the Gingery book deal with very small blowers (such as for small
> cookstoves) or only for "workshop size" blowers?  Would the info in the 
> book be
> appropriate for making small blowers in Developing Countries?

Paul, find yourself just the right Masters or Ph.D Mechanical
Engineering student and you'd be golden.  Better yet find one who's
doing work on turbomachinery, and frame it as an out-of-the-box
challenge for them in the very best tradition of Tom Sawyer ("I don't
know if you're smart enough to design a highly efficient very load head
fan that's in such a low Reynolds Number flow regime it'll make your
head spin!")

Of course if you get the wrong guy, or frame the question the wrong way,
you'll get something a lot more jet-engine-like than you are really
looking for...

-- 
- Daniel
Fredericton, NB  Canada