Looking for cheapest Trompe Designs
It is my understanding that a Trompe is one of the most useful, yet under rated energy device available too those of financial hardship. As such I thought it would be nice to locate a few Trompe Designs which can be made easily from that which is normally discarded.
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Thanks Dz, I'm familiar w/ both the Pulser Pump and Ram pump. While researching the Trompe These 2 were the closest I could find to it, but as I understand it the Trompe compresses air. I was just going to use the ram/pulser Pump design with a tweek in hopes of duplicating a trompe, but thought I'd post for an actual Trompe plan first
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The actual plan depends on what is your situation with water potential and what do you need, energy or water. I say "applied design" use what you already have and make something, then upgrade at the time. Its pure enjoyment experimenting with those water stuff, think some Schauberger vortex, old neon tubes etc....
Due to no running water I'll have to make it where it stores the energy for later use. As such I'm hoping to catch rainwater and store and store whatever compressesd air I can from it, hence the original trumpe design would work best I think. Either rain or I can use a converted 10speed bicycle to pump water from the pond. Hoping it could be for 30-1hour per day of pedeling for enough compressed air for the day.
Any other ideas?
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Looks to me that you don't have any usable energy potential in water on your property. :-) Why do you need compressed air?
I have a lake in the backyard that I can use a wind pump too pump water up. Using the trumpe will allow me to trap tair as a energy reserve. That way when the wind isn't generating power I have something other than batteries to rely on. for power when the windmill isn't turning. Have a big enough storage of air and it can be used to run a vehicle. It's just a pnumatic motor. You'd be surprised how powerful they are. It'll even spin a generator motor.
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Ok but big enough storage? its low pressure air and not much energy density. To complicated wind to water to air...
easy, the pressure is increased the deeper in the ground you put your storage, this is now compressed and cold. Throw a little heat on it and bam, increase pressure. How much pressure do you think you need to power led's? too spin a pneumatic motor? You pull the pin out of a car tire and see if your thumb can stop the air comming out. thats just 30psi, apply heat and dbl the pressure, etc....
Whats difficult? I'm wanting to use one windmill too:
1. pull water from a non-flowing body of water, at its convience for the trompe
2. trompe makes compressed air for energy storage
3. windmill recharge batteries as a extra power gain. (optional for financial reasons)
4. redirect water too the yard plants in times of drought
5. clean returning water/air quality by running it thru a wetland filter
6. use filter debre for fertalization
7. the list can go on and on. It's just finding connections
All done with little to no financial input. the ticket for villages?
Last edited by purecajn; 14-11-2011 at 10:57 PM.
In the end, we all work for ourselves.
There are already designs for windmills producing compressed air for pulling water, looks complicated to me to pump water for compressed air when you can do it directly. For the rest of the list for using water potential I totally agree.
Good luck with experimenting.
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