For those of you that were asking how this engine
(http://performanceunlimited.com/illustrations/mostpoweful_engine.html) was
actually used, read below.
Enjoy
Jerry Erbesfield
Was - 73 Black Beauty B roadster
Now - MC-5 Black Beauty Vette roadster
E-mail: jerbesfield@mindspring.com
Website: http://jerbesfield.home.mindspring.com
-----Original Message-----
From: VETTES List [mailto:VETTES@asu.edu] On Behalf Of John Price
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:18 PM
To: VETTES@asu.edu
Subject: Re: [VN] Piston Envy -- Math Challenge!
Yep, you got it exactly right, Jim.
That's just the Low Pressure section (runs on the exhaust of the High
Pressure section.) The whole thing is roughly 40 feet long. The shaft is
mechanically coupled to a 350 Megawatt generator that's hydrogen
cooled...yep, you fill the whole generator case with pure hydrogen. As long
as it stays at least 98% pure there's no chance of combustion or explosion,
but if you lose a shaft seal and it starts sucking oxygen into the case it's
time to run!:-) That's where having a good instrument tech calibrating and
maintaining the hydrogen purity analyzer becomes a life and death
matter....like a lot of other power plant situations.
The whole mess gets torn down, inspected, rebuilt, and reassembled every
three years....and you WISH your engine could receive the balance job this
baby gets every time.
Former Power Plant Instrumentation and
Control Technician,
John D. Price '75 Coupe L-82+ Red/Red
Gresham, OR CA License 'BRIGALA'
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jim lockwood" <jmlckwd@mindspring.com>
To: "John Price" <jprice@floop.com>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:24 AM
Subject: Re: [VN] Piston Envy -- Math Challenge!
> That's big, John! What does it power? Is that a turbine used in
> electricity generation?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> At 06:07 PM 05/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Here's the LP section from one of my babies being inspected.....Runs
> >on
1000
> >PSI steam at 1000 deg F.....40,000 lbs spinning at 3600 RPM on babbit
> >bearings.....350,000,000 watts (455,000 HP).....
> >
> >http://www.iamaw.org/publications/2002photocontest/7full_size.jpg
> >
> >This machine shuts down if vibration gets to be more than .005"
displacement
> >between the shaft and bearing caps.
> >
> >We hope nothing ever seizes up. It could ruin your whole day...and a
> >lot
of
> >real estate.
> >
> >John D. Price '75 Coupe L-82+ Red/Red
> >Gresham, OR CA License 'BRIGALA'
> >==================================================================
> >http://www.floop.com
> >jprice@floop.com
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Stephen Monjar" <smonjar@ATTBI.COM>
> >To: <VETTES@asu.edu>
> >Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:14 AM
> >Subject: Re: [VN] Piston Envy -- Math Challenge!
> >
> >
> >> Come on, math dudes! 89,600 HP @ 100 rpm. What'll it do in the
quarter?
> >>
> >> Steve & The 'Way Underpowered Blue Shark
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/8/03 10:25 AM, "Doug Dayson" <djdayson@ATTBI.COM> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Yeow, think it'll fit under the Shark hood?
> >> >
> >> > Doug
> >> >
> >> > Mike Miller wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> This site came up in our local discussions after last night's
> >> >> drag
> >> >> races:
> >> >>
> >> >>
http://performanceunlimited.com/illustrations/mostpoweful_engine.html
> >> >>
> >> >> Problems? Questions? Email Bob Kaneshige <bobr@asu.edu>
> >http://vettenet.org
> >> >> Archives: http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=vettes
> >> >
> >> > Problems? Questions? Email Bob Kaneshige <bobr@asu.edu>
> >http://vettenet.org
> >> > Archives: http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=vettes
> >>
> >> Problems? Questions? Email Bob Kaneshige <bobr@asu.edu>
> >http://vettenet.org
> >> Archives: http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=vettes
> >>
> >
> >Problems? Questions? Email Bob Kaneshige <bobr@asu.edu>
http://vettenet.org
> > Archives: http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=vettes
> >
>
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