BELIZE ENGINEERS ATTEMPT TO DEVELOP AN E-CAT HEATED BOILER TO SUPPLY STEAM ENGINE WITH 200 PSI STEAM.

Thanks on the info Desai. I am thinking of 20 of your 10 hp steam engines in a row, run by E Cat boiler supplied heaters. At the moment you don´t have your steam engines, sufficiently finished to handle selling electricity to the grid. When you do, and I do understand you are working on the problems, I would want a combo steam engine and generator. I myself, do not yet know what the requirement would be to sell electricity to the grid, until I consult with our local small country distribution supplier, called BEL. They undoubtedly have best case scenarios for matching voltages, current and phase. At the moment, you don´t have your steam engines up to par, and I don´t have any experimental test results to show that the E CAT automatic heating system, can actually produce 200 psi of steam. The only model that was built and sold, was only 28 psi. So there are problems in the construction design of the boiler, I would think? Given an eventual solution to all the problems through experimentation, we may eventually come to an investment. The whole concept is still shaky on some of the key necesseties, for a reliable 24 hr x 7 day, electrical supply for six months. I would anticipate at least another six months needed in research and development, perhaps even a year? Cash availability for research and development is also limited.
In the past I have owned a 5 hp Lister diesel generator. It worked fine and am quite comfortable with such operation. The U.K. no longer builds these and I understand the Lister diesel machine factory was sold to somebody in India. There has been debate on ETHANOL fuel supply and also on using JATROPHE seed oil as a fuel supply. None of these things have gone yet to the RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STAGE, sufficient to do costing studies. The need is to break the tie to the world price of fluctuating imported oil prices. The costs of oil products can only go UP.

10 HP STEAM ENGINE VIDEO FROM TINYTECHINDIA.COM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msOH1M8ulxQ
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ONGOING LOCAL DEBATE ON LOCAL BELIZE GENERATOR REQUIREMENTS
Hi Desai,

Can you confirm that the Electrical Supply Voltages in India are 230V 50Hz Single phase and 400V 50Hz 3-phase for higher power and Factories.

Here, in Belize we use the American system, which is a bit of a sorry mixture, 120V 60Hz Single phase and 240V Two phase, for regular houses and small offices. 120V / 208V 3-phase for goodness knows for what as 208V is too low for anything. Then the proper 3-phase supplies are good, they can be 240V 3-phase or 480V 3-phase for High power stuff. Problem is that there is no easy way of getting regular House / small office 120 / 240V Supply from an American 3-phase supply. ( I do it, but it appears most others don't or can't. )

For those of you who might be wondering. 230V Single Phase / 400V 3-phase is becoming the World standard, at least for many countries.