This is awesome! Wht is the RPM, power, and steam pressure and temperature at inlet and exhaust. Is this the one with the condenser shell cracked from water freezing in it in winter?
The Generator has 52 Poles. 50 Hz divided by 26 Fields equals a little under 2 Revolutions per Second. Synchronous Speed is 118 odd RPM, and the Engine does that.
Probably not allowed to connect to the grid, as engines like this have a hard time keeping in sync with the rest of the grid. Even just getting out of phase can cause excessive currents to flow, potentially burning out the generator windings.
It’s a beautiful piece of mechanical history, but it’s also exactly that: history. There are far better ways to generate energy today. Personally I also don’t see the appeal of making fun of someone who just wants to make the world a better place.
@@dandavidson4717 That was what all the greenies around here said so LG&E decommissioned and imploded two coal fired units and replaced them with NG fired ones then the next winter found that they did not have enough gas to run it and supply the city of Louisville . so they had to build another NG pipe line to supply every one then the rates doubled for gas and had to run it along a existing power line right of way thru Bernhiem forest . well they had a fit about that too !! now I like to say to them that low cost coal was not so evil after all now that they ether shiver or shell out twice what they did last year .
Unfortunately, inhaling the coal smoke would also eventually give you a heart attack (or lung cancer). Also reciprocating steam is typically rather inefficient, you'd be burning a lot more coal than you're bargaining for. Around 15% overall efficiency would be an optimistic case. Assuming you use the average annual power consumption of a US home (10632 kWh/year) and are burning bitumenous coal with an average energy density of 8 kWh/kg that would translate to just under 9 tons of coal per year. My apologies for the use of metric units (I think it's a reasonable assumption that you're an American), but the maths is easier that way. Now if you really want to stick it to the man you should get yourself an off-grid system with solar panels and batteries (lead-acid, they're cheap and unlike lithium batteries they do not tend to explode), and a backup generator for times when the sun's not shining. Choose the right generator and you can be self sufficient for fuel too (either biodiesel for a diesel generator or grain alcohol for a gasoline one).
@@nerd1000ify I have a bank of solar using locomotive batteries for the inverter no wind turbine yet I burn coal in a outside water furnace to heat the house and shop hot tub and domestic hot water my house is underground have propane gas as cooking and back up for heating I have a wattmeter out in the powerhouse where the furnace and Cat 48 KW genset is i pull less that 2000 watts with what I call idling just the refrigerator 2 servers Comm tower and normal lighting needs the 6 LED security lights add about 300 watts at night pump on hot tub pulls more if i use it My bill is between $90 to a high of $140 (US) depends how much welding I do here in the shop and other machine tools as it is i use a bit over a ton of coal a year it burns year round uses a lot less in summer .
@@jhonsiders6077If you're using 2000W on average that would work out to 17520 kWh per year. Which would be 14.5 tonnes of coal annually, by the same calculation i did above. I think a small steam plant could still make sense over winter. The trick would be to arrange for the feedwater condenser to heat the water for your central heating. Then all the waste heat from the engine is also used, and in theory your energy efficiency is almost 100% assuming the boiler for the steam engine does a good job of capturing the heat from the fire. You'd have to do some careful analysis to determine the optimal size of the steam plant of course, too small and you'll still have to run the furnace to provide enough heat but too big and it won't be running at capacity.
One can easily imagine this being in the mechanical room of reality, standing outside of time, just doing its job.
Sulzer where renowned for their high quality, superbly finished machines.....this one is a awesome example, glad it is now in a museum.
What a beauty! To me this is poetry in motion, smooth, gentle powerful. 🥰
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. STILL WORKING PERFECTLY. AND MUCH MORE QUIET THAN SOME OF THE MORE MODERN GENERATORS.
The amazing precision of the times of this engine to run so smooth.. So beautiful too..
Love old machinery....thanks
thank you, so magnificent. those boys who lived with steam really had it going on.
Marvelous run, and an interessting alternator!
We did this with our waterworks engine, these engines and their buildings turn to magic after the sun goes down.
After all these years, still doing its job, steady and constant as gravity.
Fascinating to watch, and to listen to. Thank you for posting this!
The audio from this would make an excellent ASMR sound track if it were extended a few hours. I could definitely sleep to this “music”.
good video, the lighting and colors are beautiful.
C'est ce que l'on appelle une "cathédrale" de l'ére industrielle.
Brings me to tears
such beautiful engineering
This is awesome! Wht is the RPM, power, and steam pressure and temperature at inlet and exhaust. Is this the one with the condenser shell cracked from water freezing in it in winter?
Very cool.
Magnificent!
Seems pretty clean for working steam. One would think there would at least be a couple of streamers, or condensation somewhere.
Wow, it runs like a Swiss watch, flawless............. shame it is out of commission.
Magnificent.
It seems to run much slower than the regular synchronous speed.
The Generator has 52 Poles. 50 Hz divided by 26 Fields equals a little under 2 Revolutions per Second. Synchronous Speed is 118 odd RPM, and the Engine does that.
nice video 👍👍
Can somebody show to us how these works pls?
steam
Can it still connect to the power grid?
Probably not allowed to connect to the grid, as engines like this have a hard time keeping in sync with the rest of the grid. Even just getting out of phase can cause excessive currents to flow, potentially burning out the generator windings.
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Leave it to the Swiss ... you could eat off that floor.
😕 P r o m o S M
To have that dynamo and a few tons of coal could power my farm for a couple of years . and give a Greta a heart attack !
It’s a beautiful piece of mechanical history, but it’s also exactly that: history.
There are far better ways to generate energy today.
Personally I also don’t see the appeal of making fun of someone who just wants to make the world a better place.
@@dandavidson4717 That was what all the greenies around here said so LG&E decommissioned and imploded two coal fired units and replaced them with NG fired ones then the next winter found that they did not have enough gas to run it and supply the city of Louisville . so they had to build another NG pipe line to supply every one then the rates doubled for gas and had to run it along a existing power line right of way thru Bernhiem forest . well they had a fit about that too !! now I like to say to them that low cost coal was not so evil after all now that they ether shiver or shell out twice what they did last year .
Unfortunately, inhaling the coal smoke would also eventually give you a heart attack (or lung cancer). Also reciprocating steam is typically rather inefficient, you'd be burning a lot more coal than you're bargaining for. Around 15% overall efficiency would be an optimistic case. Assuming you use the average annual power consumption of a US home (10632 kWh/year) and are burning bitumenous coal with an average energy density of 8 kWh/kg that would translate to just under 9 tons of coal per year. My apologies for the use of metric units (I think it's a reasonable assumption that you're an American), but the maths is easier that way.
Now if you really want to stick it to the man you should get yourself an off-grid system with solar panels and batteries (lead-acid, they're cheap and unlike lithium batteries they do not tend to explode), and a backup generator for times when the sun's not shining. Choose the right generator and you can be self sufficient for fuel too (either biodiesel for a diesel generator or grain alcohol for a gasoline one).
@@nerd1000ify I have a bank of solar using locomotive batteries for the inverter no wind turbine yet I burn coal in a outside water furnace to heat the house and shop hot tub and domestic hot water my house is underground have propane gas as cooking and back up for heating I have a wattmeter out in the powerhouse where the furnace and Cat 48 KW genset is i pull less that 2000 watts with what I call idling just the refrigerator 2 servers Comm tower and normal lighting needs the 6 LED security lights add about 300 watts at night pump on hot tub pulls more if i use it My bill is between $90 to a high of $140 (US) depends how much welding I do here in the shop and other machine tools as it is i use a bit over a ton of coal a year it burns year round uses a lot less in summer .
@@jhonsiders6077If you're using 2000W on average that would work out to 17520 kWh per year. Which would be 14.5 tonnes of coal annually, by the same calculation i did above.
I think a small steam plant could still make sense over winter. The trick would be to arrange for the feedwater condenser to heat the water for your central heating. Then all the waste heat from the engine is also used, and in theory your energy efficiency is almost 100% assuming the boiler for the steam engine does a good job of capturing the heat from the fire. You'd have to do some careful analysis to determine the optimal size of the steam plant of course, too small and you'll still have to run the furnace to provide enough heat but too big and it won't be running at capacity.