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- Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:45 am
- Forum: Anaerobic Digester
- Topic: a new AD forum guy
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Re: a new AD forum guy
Sorry, of course water collumn would be from gage zero, as one end is open. My uncle worked for a compressed gas supplier so i discussed it with him, as well. Although there is the term vacuum, the way to think of it is an extreme reduction in air pressure. If i evacuate a tank, although not perfect...
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:24 pm
- Forum: Anaerobic Digester
- Topic: a new AD forum guy
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Re: a new AD forum guy
Excellent information! Thank you very much! That's good stuff to know. I was aware that methane is a chriogenic gas but as i was not going to compress it much, i didn't factor that in. Re-figuring very soon. Another question: is Water Collumn figure from absolute psi? In other words 27.68"WC = 1psi ...
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:56 am
- Forum: Anaerobic Digester
- Topic: a new AD forum guy
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Re: a new AD forum guy
When i calculate tank capacity, i typically measure the tank and calculate the area in cubic feet and round down. The best way would be to know the liquid capacity by a label or by filling the tank with water and somehow measuring that amount of water and converting. This gives you the capacity at 1...
- Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:45 am
- Forum: Anaerobic Digester
- Topic: a new AD forum guy
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Re: a new AD forum guy
Thanks for reading, I've found a York brand compressor made from aluminum dissipates heat better than the cast iron Tecumseh counterpart. See by the pix i've got a muffin fan blowing on the compressor head while it's running. Here's a good page: http://www.meicorporation.com/pdfs/Comp07.pdf Come to ...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:55 am
- Forum: Anaerobic Digester
- Topic: a new AD forum guy
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a new AD forum guy
Greetings from Central United States. Great to find an AD forum. Here's some pix of a system built this spring: http://elwood.longlines.com/~jonz/AD/FULL_SYS_k.jpg any .jpg with an underscore_k is new. http://elwood.longlines.com/~jonz/AD/ Producing half a cubic foot a day at slightly over 3" WC. Or...