[Gasification] Retort construction, hydrogen embrittlement, and similarity in appearance between the motorcycle gasifer and the gasifier Peter is working with.

[Zietsman, Rex]

Peter wrote:
"Ergo -- for a small stationary power plant -- a char producing small
stove heating a small ORC boiler/prime mover set up as a stationary
power plant -- and the char so produced becoming "portable" fuel for a
producer gas "horseless Carriage" -- or whatever.
The small ORC unit could also be operated as a solar power device -
using a simple solar collector -- the thermal gasifying could be a batch
operation started just after the sun goes down -- and the char ready the
next morning for the small "truck" -- The small "truck" being one of
those infamous -- Chinese Mules."

I am really curious and interested in how you would design/build a small
ORC unit. Have you built one or is this speculation on your behalf or
have you seen such a unit? I have a mechanical engineer (turbine
specialist) friend who has been telling me for years about his idea of
building a Carnot cycle power genset using truck supercharger
components. I suspect that could work here as well. He has also dreamed
of building a 10kW gas turbine with one working part. I am bugging him
to do this as we can use gasifier gas to drive it. However, as this is
likely to be too far into the future, I was wondering if you had small
scale ORC experience? I like your idea of solar heat during the day...

Rex