Residential Solar Steam Power
I performed a google search for a solar steam power system for a house and I couldn't find any commercial systems for a residence. There are industrial scale solar steam power plants but, as of yet, no residential scale solar steam power.
Some may say that steam power is too dangerous because of the pressures and temperatures involved, and yet, some of us routinely drive cars full of high flammable gasoline and drive diesel trucks with a fuel injection system that operates at 10,000 psi or higher.
All the parts needed to construct a residential scale solar steam power system are in place.
We can buy or build parabolic solar troughs with oil as a working fluid:
https://youtu.be/lrRTCbXE0Jc
Though the 2nd part, the heat exchanger and the steam power system as of yet does not exist for residences. Though this too is possible.
There are plans or instructions on how to build a steam power generator:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Power-your-home-and-workshop-with-steam/
https://www.homepower.com/articles/home-efficiency/electricity/ask-experts-steam-electricity
Though it looks to me to be way to discourage people from building anything, given the costs and complexity. Funny steam power has the explosive power of a stick of dynamite and what about our the tanks of gasoline in our cars? Also diesel engines routinely make use of extremely high pressure fuel injection. Yet, you can buy these systems off the lot, no problem. If you listen to these guys Nothing is possible. So let's forget them and make it happen.
Harbor Freight sells a generator "head" that can produce 7.2KW continuous power at 3200 rpm: No need for 10,000 rpm turbines.
https://www.harborfreight.com/10000-watts-max-7200-watts-rated-belt-driven-generator-head-45416.html
So all we need is a turbine that can turn at 3200 rpm with about 27 ft-lbs of torque. We can then work backwards and determine the pressure, temperature, and volume rate of the steam needed to make this happen.
Ebay actually has a 12.5 Hp turbine that runs at 3554 rpm with an inlet pressure of 225 psi:
12.5 Hp Steam Turbine
Now we're getting somewhere, 225 psi could be easily achievable with residential powered steam.
All we need now is a heat exchanger, I have to think about this one and look online to see if there are some for sale and/or maybe we can build one.
Some may say that steam power is too dangerous because of the pressures and temperatures involved, and yet, some of us routinely drive cars full of high flammable gasoline and drive diesel trucks with a fuel injection system that operates at 10,000 psi or higher.
All the parts needed to construct a residential scale solar steam power system are in place.
We can buy or build parabolic solar troughs with oil as a working fluid:
https://youtu.be/lrRTCbXE0Jc
Though the 2nd part, the heat exchanger and the steam power system as of yet does not exist for residences. Though this too is possible.
There are plans or instructions on how to build a steam power generator:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Power-your-home-and-workshop-with-steam/
https://www.homepower.com/articles/home-efficiency/electricity/ask-experts-steam-electricity
Though it looks to me to be way to discourage people from building anything, given the costs and complexity. Funny steam power has the explosive power of a stick of dynamite and what about our the tanks of gasoline in our cars? Also diesel engines routinely make use of extremely high pressure fuel injection. Yet, you can buy these systems off the lot, no problem. If you listen to these guys Nothing is possible. So let's forget them and make it happen.
Harbor Freight sells a generator "head" that can produce 7.2KW continuous power at 3200 rpm: No need for 10,000 rpm turbines.
https://www.harborfreight.com/10000-watts-max-7200-watts-rated-belt-driven-generator-head-45416.html
So all we need is a turbine that can turn at 3200 rpm with about 27 ft-lbs of torque. We can then work backwards and determine the pressure, temperature, and volume rate of the steam needed to make this happen.
Ebay actually has a 12.5 Hp turbine that runs at 3554 rpm with an inlet pressure of 225 psi:
12.5 Hp Steam Turbine
Now we're getting somewhere, 225 psi could be easily achievable with residential powered steam.
All we need now is a heat exchanger, I have to think about this one and look online to see if there are some for sale and/or maybe we can build one.
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