The appointment of the vortex heat generator Potapov (VTG) made with his own hands is to get warm only with the help of an electric motor and pump. Basically, this device is used as an economical heater.
Diagram of the device of the vortex heat system.
Since there are no studies to determine the parameters of the product depending on the power of the pump, the approximate dimensions will be illuminated.
The easiest way to do a vortex heat generator from standard parts. For this, any electric motor will suit. What it will be powerful, the greater the volume of water heats up to a given temperature.
The main thing is the engine
You need to choose the engine depending on what voltage is available. There are many schemes with which you can connect to the network 220 volt engine by 380 volts and vice versa. But this is another topic.
Start a heat generator assembly from the electric motor. It will need to be fixed on the bed. The design of this device is a metal frame that is easiest to do from the square. Dimensions will need to be selected in place for those devices that will be available.
Drawing of the vortex heat generator.
List of tools and materials:
- angular grinding machine;
- welding machine;
- electric drill;
- set of drills;
- Rozhkovy or catch keys at 12 and 13;
- bolts, nuts, washers;
- metal corner;
- Primer, paint, paint brush.
- Cut with the help of angular grinding machines. Using a welding machine, collect a rectangular design. As an option - you can make an assembly with bolts and nuts. On the final version of the design it will not affect. Pick up the length and width so that all the details are optimally placed.
- Cut another piece of the square. Attach it how to cross with such a calculation so that the engine can be secured.
- Make painting frame.
- Drill holes in the frame under the bolts and install the engine.
Installing pump
Now it will be necessary to choose a water pump. Now in specialized stores you can purchase an aggregate of any modification and power. What should I pay attention to?
- The pump must be centrifugal.
- Your engine will be able to promote it.
Install the pump on the frame if it is necessary to do yet, then make them either from the corner, or from the bandage gland the same thickness as the corner. The coupling is unlikely to be made without a lathe. Therefore, it will have to order it somewhere.
The diagram of the hydrocychry heat generator.
The vortex heat generator Potapova consists of a housing made in the form of a closed cylinder. At its ends there must be through holes and nozzles for connecting to the heating system. The secretion of the design is inside the cylinder. The jigger should be located behind the inlet. Its hole is selected for this device individually, but it is desirable that it is twice the fourth part of the pipe diameter. If you do less, the pump will not be able to skip the water through this hole and starts to heat yourself. In addition, it will begin intensively at the expense of the cavitation phenomenon to collapse internal details.
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Tools: Corner grinding machine or handwheel for metal, welding machine, electric drill, adjustable key.
Materials: thick metal pipe, electrodes, drills, 2 carve tank, couplings.
- Cut a piece of thick pipe with a diameter of 100 mm and a length of 500-600 mm. Make an external protocate on it about 20-25 mm and half the thickness of the pipe. Cut the thread.
- Make from the same pipe diameter two rings 50 mm long. Cut the inner thread on one side of each semiring.
- From the same thickness of the flat metal as the pipe, make the lids and breed them from the side of the rings where there is no thread.
- Make a central hole in the covers: one by the diameter of the gibler, and the other in the diameter of the nozzle. From the inside of the lid, where there is a busker, a larger diameter drill. As a result, the nozzle should be.
- Connect the heat generator to the system. The nozzle where the nozzle is worth, attach to the pump into the hole, from which water is fed under pressure. Connect the input of the heating system to the second nozzle. Compare from the system with the pump input.
Water under pressure, which will create a pump, will pass through the nozzle of the vortex heat generator, which you make with your own hands. In the chamber, it will begin to heat up due to intense mixing. Then give it to the system for heating. To adjust the temperature, put a ball lock device behind the pipe. Blank it, and the vortex heat generator will drive the water longer inside the case, and therefore the temperature in it will start climbing. This is how this heater works.
Ways of improving productivity
Scheme of the heat pump.
In the pump, heat losses occur. So the vortex heat generator of Potapov in this version has a significant drawback. Therefore, a logical immersed pump is surrounded by a water jacket so that its heat also goes to useful heating.
External body of the entire device Make a little longer than the diameter of the available pump. It can be either a finished pipe, which is desirable, or made of parallelepiped sheet material. Its sizes should be such that the pump, the coupling and the generator itself. The wall thickness must withstand the pressure in the system.
In order for the heat loss to decrease, make the thermal insulation around the body. It can be protected by a casing made of tin. As an insulator, use any thermal insulation material that maintains the boiling point of the liquid.
- Collect a compact device consisting of a submersible pump, a coupling and the heat generator that you collected with your own hands.
- Decide in its dimensions and pick up the pipe of this diameter, inside which all these mechanisms would be easily accommodated.
- Make covers from one and the other side.
- Ensure stiffness of the fastening of internal mechanisms and the ability to pump water from the resulting tank.
- Make the inlet and secure the nozzle on it. The pump must be located inside the water fence as close as possible to this hole.
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At the opposite end of the pipe breed flange. With it, it will be mounted through a rubber laying cover. To easily mount the insides, make a simple light frame or skeleton. Inside it collect the device. Check fit and tightness of all nodes. Insert into the housing and close the lid.
Connect to consumers and check everything for tightness. If there is no leakage, turn on the pump. Opening and closing the crane, which is located at the output of the generator, adjust the temperature.
Generator insulation
Connection diagram of the heat generator to the heating system.
First you need to make the heater of the insulation. Take a sheet of galvanized tin or fine aluminum for this. Cut from it two rectangles if you make a casing of two halves. Or one rectangle, but with such a calculation that in him after the manufacture fully placed the vortex heat generator Potapov, which collected with their own hands.
Bending a sheet is best on a large diameter tube or use crossing. Put the cut sheet on it and press the wooden bar on top of hand. The second hand click on the sheet of fuster so that a small bend is formed along the entire length. Promote a little blank and repeat the operation again. Do so until the cylinder works.
- Connect it with the castle that uses tinsmiths for drainage pipes.
- Make covers for casing, providing in them holes for connecting the generator.
- Wrap the device with thermal insulation material. Using wire or thin strips, fissure isolation.
- Place the device into the casing, close the lids.
There is another way to increase heat production: for this you need to figure out how the Potapov's vortex generator works, the efficiency of which can approach 100% and higher (there is no consensus, why this happens).
During the passage of water through a nozzle or jiggle at the output, a powerful thread is created, which is hosted into the opposite end of the device. It is twisted, and due to the friction of molecules, heating occurs. So, by placing an additional obstacle to this stream, it is possible to increase the mixing of the fluid in the device.
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Knowing how it works, you can begin to design an additional improvement. It will be a vortex damper made of longitudinal plates located inside two rings in the form of a stabilizer of the aviation bomb.
Scheme of a stationary heat generator.
Tools: welding machine, angular grinding machine.
Materials: metal or strip iron, thick-walled pipe.
Make a smaller diameter pipe from the pipe than the vortex heat generator Potapov, two rings with a width of 4-5 cm. From the band metal, cut the same strips. The length of them should be equal to the fourth part of the length of the body of the thermal generator. Choose the width with this calculation so that after the assembly, the loose hole remained.
- Secure the plate in the vice. Hang on it from one and the other side of the ring. Welcome to them plate.
- Remove the workpiece from the clip and turn it over 180 degrees. Place the plate inside the rings and secure in the clamp so that the plates are opposite each other. Secure thus at an equal distance of 6 plates.
- Collect the vortex heat generator by inserting the described device opposite the nozzle.
Probably you can continue to improve this product. For example, instead of parallel plates, use steel wire, winding it into the air ball. Or on the plates to make holes of different diameters. Nothing is said about this improvement, but this does not mean to do it.
Tips to listen better
Scheme of heat gun device.
- Be sure to protect with staining of all surfaces, the vortex heat generator Potapov.
- Its internal parts during operation will be in a very aggressive environment caused by cavitation processes. Therefore, the hull, and everything that is in it is, try to make a thick material. Do not save on the gland.
- Make several options for covers with different inlet holes. Then it will be easier to select their diameter to get high performance.
- The same applies to the excavator of the oscillations. It can also be modified.
Collect a small laboratory stand, where you will run all the characteristics. For this, do not connect consumers, and the pipeline to the generator. It will simplify its test and selection of the necessary parameters. Since complex devices for determining the coefficient of useful activities at home can hardly be found, then the following test is proposed.
Turn on the vortex heat generator and check out the time when it dispels the water to a certain temperature. The thermometer is better to have electronic, it is more accurate. Then make changes to the design and again spend the experience, watching the temperature increase. The stronger the water will heat up for the same time, the more preferences it will be necessary to give the final version of the established improvement in the design.