[Gasification] ORC

[GFWHELL at aol.com]

I have heard that the military have been using a, portable vapor driven  
generator for years. Providing "silent" power near the front line. it runs on  
Kerosene. These should be coming up at the surplus stores?
 
It occurred to me that an induction generator could be constructed using a  
hermetic refrigeration compressor of the "Scroll type". If  high pressure  
vapor were forced into the low pressure side of  this pump, it would cause  the 
rotor to turn. the exhaust would come out of the HP side and go to a  condenser, 
The trick is to get the condensed liquid back into the boiler. It  should be 
possible to use a pump  but a far more elegant solution,   would of course,  
be an injector using super heated vapor from the boiler  to force low temp 
condensate  back into the boiler.
Thus, the unit would be a hermetically sealed power plant. The energy for  
which would be provided by our gasifier fitted  with untold heat  reclamation 
and fuel drying capacity coupled to this hermetic power plant.
 
Persons unfortunate enough, to not  be enjoying connection to the  national 
grid, which would normally  be  used for the excitation  of this induction 
generator,  can with a little innovation concoct a  network of capacitors across 
the power terminals to provide: the required  excitation, which turns an 
induction motor into a generator. We should all learn  how to do this with our 
surplus squirrel cage motors in case the grid  fails.
 
Geoff