I'm looking at coming up with a design for a press to produce biomass fuel brickettes, these will be made of reeds that are cleared from a local waterway and are in unlimited free supply, if this could be done manually without a hydraulic pump it would be really cost effecient , this process of...
Can anyone suggest a similar off the shelf low cost alternative to this adhesive ?https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=44fad0e1-e653-4179-8f41-297bec766cc5&file=000000000002320563_000000497843_MSDS_UT_US_EN.PDF
I'm thinking about the design of a hand press to produce fuel logs from wet cardboard slurry and I would like to acheive it by using a long lever or series of levers, no jacks ot motors, can anyone give me any tips on design of such mechanisms and how to acheive the maximum pressing power ?
I am putting PIR sheet insulation in a steel cabin on a boat, this cabin gets very hot in summer, will adding a reflective foil layer between the insulation and the steel cabin sides and roof keep the cabin cooler in summer ?
The foil layer on the insulation will be facing inside the cabin ...
I need to insulate an area behind a woodstove on a houseboat , the thickness is limited to 40 mm and behind it is 4mm steel cabin side, ideally this should be 100mm of Rockwool but there is no space, what materiel will give me the best insulation performance and also be fire proof ?
Recently a product has come on the market that consists of a cage to hold coal inside a solid fuel burning stove in a vertical stack instead of laying piled up on the great, the inventor claims this increases radiant heat, buyers are reporting they are saving significant amounts of fuel using...
can anyone tell me what the restriction in airflow is through any types of air to water heat exchanger ?
My application is recovering 80 degree C hot air flow from an air cooled engine to heat water.
Maybe this type of heat exchanger ?
i have an 3 cylinder air cooled diesel engine, with a vertical hot air duct, 650 cm2, @ 80 degrees C max , i want to pre heat vegetable oil fuel from this air stream, what kind of heat exchanger would suit this purpose ?
naturally the air flow cannot be interupted much, or the engine will...