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benny2

03-17-2006 00:21:40




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If you have wind often you can heat with it. I built a few of the wind heaters. Got the Idea from hydraulic industrial solution heaters. They are a hydraulic unit and can be powered by any rotational power, mostly for wind direct drive. They are a long, I used large pipe. Then they have sealed ends with bearings that support a auger type of screw, the unit has a bypass tube from the compressed oil end to the what would be the inlet or suction side with a heat exchanger conected in this loop. When the unit is turned by windmill or prop, the oil heats up with the heat coming from the exchanger. You can either use a liquid or direct air to take the heat. The amount of wind you have will dictate the size of the heater unit. No electricty involved in this unit. I know of one of the units that has been in use since the mid 70s still working.

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whtpark01

03-17-2006 08:39:02




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 Re: Using wind to heat withRe:Anyone using a solar in reply to benny2, 03-17-2006 00:21:40  
benny2, I would love to hear more about your wind powered heater. Any chance you could give a more detailed description?



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benny2

03-17-2006 09:33:53




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 What would you like to Re: Using wind to heat with in reply to whtpark01, 03-17-2006 08:39:02  
What would you like to know. First Iam not the owner or user of this unit that is still in use. There may be others that we built still in use. Other than the power heads the only maintence would be bearings, seals and oil changes of the heater unit. I built these units in my machine shop in the late 70s for the users/owners. The design was a take off of the commercialy avaible hyd industrial heater units that have been around for quite a while. While most of the industrial units were square and self contained, mine were round with externel heat exchangers. The power heads (props) and drive were up to the users to install. Mostly home made power units with my shop doing some of the machine work on them for the users/instalers. Most of the design work came out of our use of surplus A/C 3 phase induction motors for wind, engine and some hydro powered generators.

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whtpark01

03-17-2006 09:57:45




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 Re: What would you like to Re: Using wind to heat in reply to benny2, 03-17-2006 09:33:53  
appreciate your quick reply!
Trying to get my mind around the screw auger concept you mentioned



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benny2

03-17-2006 18:57:24




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 Re: What would you like to Re: Using wind to heat in reply to whtpark01, 03-17-2006 09:57:45  
Think of it as a grain auger with closed system using oil instead of grain and recycling the oil with output restriction, after a while of this it just gets hot. You extract the heat and use it. I think the auger in the tube dates to about 100BC Archmedies hand crank water Pump;)). I have seen modern versions of these pumps lifting irrgation water and small ones move a LOT of water.



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