Engine, hot air
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- OBJECT TYPE
- HOT AIR/COAL OR WOOD FIRED/EXTERNAL COMBUSTION/8 INCH
- DATE
- 1910
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1975.0403.001
- MANUFACTURER
- RIDER-ERICSSON ENGINE CO.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 14279
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Cast iron, bronze
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- N/A
- Width
- N/A
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Power sources
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- RIDER ERICSSON
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- 1910-1946
- Canada
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Engine was donated by Mr. D. Angus, grandson of Richard Angus. Richard Angus was the chairman of BMO in 1870 and was also responsible for financing the Canadian Pacific Railway, partnering with George Stephen. This engine was used on Mr. Angus' farm, La Chatte Blanche, for domestic purposes. - Function
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Solar powered hot air engine used for pumping water. Contained a working gas that was alternately heated and cooled so that the change in pressure could exert work on a piston, which would in turn perform the task of pumping water. The engine pumped water into elevated tanks from which the water would flow by gravity. - Technical
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This type of engine is presently being investigated as a pollution-free power source. John Ericsson developed solar powered hot air engine for pumping water; this was modified to use conventional fuel source & in commercial production began in 1881 (ref. 1). Can run directly on any heat source (eg. biomass, biowaste, etc.) as long as the temperature is high enough. Produces no CO and produces very low levels of nitrogen oxides. This engine could work as efficiently as a gas engine on a smaller amount of fuel for approximately 10 hours. Flywheel, cylinder, pump and crank assembly are mounted atop stove into which the lower part of the cylinder extends. External combustion, 8 inches. Under favourable conditions, 500gal/hr could be pumped to 50 ft with a coal consumption of 3.5 lbs/hr. - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- Nil; but unassembled Ammendment by Dave Elliott@26/10/2005: I'm not sure what the foregoing statement means or is referring to. The artefact is complete and assembled and has been operated both prototypically (fired) and also with an electrical drive system (with some parts removed). I am not aware of any missing or extra parts related to this artefact, other than some pump parts that were replaced (fabricated from bar stock) and the originals were retained (to the best of my knowledge).
- Finish
- Base black/ engine red
- Decoration
- COMPRISES A DOUBLE WALLED CYLINDER, THE LOWER END OF WHICH ADJACENT TO THE Heat source is filled with charcoal which acts as a heat sink. Concentric with this is a moveable sleeve called the displacer, which surrounds the piston. Through a system of linkages, the displacer and piston travel vertically within the cylinder, and in doing so, the displacer transfers the hot air from the lower end to the upper, where it is cooled by the water jacket surrounding the cylinder. In passing from one end of to the other, the expanding air acts upon the piston, which being connected to a crank, enables useful work to be performed.
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