The Texas Tea Theory

 Here is a basic Fischer-Tropsch design. I am capable of one twice as
efficient.

The Texas Tea Theory

Ok, listen up people. It's December, 2007. The war isn't showing many
signs of success, and Saudi Arabia has told us that they can no longer
keep up with increasing demand as Asia and now Russia become fully
modern societies. The latter meaning they will use much of their own
oil in the process of progress. Oil now stands at record prices, about
90-100 USD/bbl. And we just had a tropical storm in DECEMBER? No one
can deny that we have both a climate problem and an oil problem. My
plan, just to let you know, is nature-friendly: I plan to compost our
sewage to feed our fields to produce all kinds of crops, including
hemp, for food, fuel and plastic. The garbage from this would be
thrown in too, in a "carbon flywheel" to store carbon energy from the
sun. Composting would put net carbon back into the earth in accordance
with the natural cycles. If we dont act soon, we may have neither food
or fuel. Lower-income families are already having to make a choice
between food whose price is inflated by the use of corn for fuel and
gas to go to work.

I frankly should have completed this earlier. I mean, the below
apparatus has already been done, in fact it's probably over 40 years
old. I am capable of building something at least twice as efficient.
But here's something a bit more open-source for you all - thats right,
i said open-source. Build one if you want, just credit me with the
creation of this wonderful home fuel device. This takes your organic
garbage and turns it into synthetic gasoline, which just like
synthetic oil is better for the engine. Don't forget to add 10%
ethanol. I am not responsible if you blow yourself up with inferior
craftmanship!

Start with a 5' length of 8" Sch. 40 309 or 310 stainless steel pipe.
Cap it at both ends, and make sure you can take the top off to add
garbage. Add 2 1/4" taps in the side for temperature and pressure
gauges, and a 1/2" in the bottom. This goes for 3" and then it comes
to a T-junction where one end goes through a 1/32" restriction and
then 1/2" pipe to a steam tank made from 1' of the 8" pipe that sits
directly below the gasifier. This pipe should have a 45-degree t-
section in the line to add first 2 and then 1 liter of water per
operation. The main branch goes directly upward alongside the side of
the gasifier, then goes off to one side for 12" and then down into the
ash filtration unit. There is also a 1/2' in the side for a 450 psi
relief valve. This unit should run at 800-1000 degrees Celsius and
around 30 atmospheres.

The ash filtration unit is 1' of the 8" pipe. The 1/2" pipe goes down
through the 200-mesh screen placed 9" into the filter. The top is
filled with 1 kg of lime. The 1/2" outlet in the top has another
screen. A 12" loop of the 1/2" water pipe (Schedule 80) goes through
here too. Everything after this can be made of standard steel.

After that, a 1/2" pipe to the 4-way junction. One going off to the
side has a valve and a gas regulator (1.9mm venturi expanding to 6"
with a 3/4" outlet) to reduce the pressure to near normal before going
back to the gasifier to heat the reaction from the outside of the
unit. I reccommend a ring of gas nozzles, one column each on 4 sides
of the unit, with 6 nozzles each. The more evenly distributed the
better, and constructing a heat shield over it like a brick oven
should work well. The other pipe has a valve and goes to a catalyst
maker where the gas flows through the 6" x 24" pipe, through a screen
out to a regulator (the same sort from earlier), and is burned on the
outside of the unit. The pipe going through to the reactor has a
valve. To make catalyst, shut off this valve. To make fuel, shut off
the catalyst maker valve for 4 hours. To test the relief valve, close
all valves...

Now for the main show. Start with 8" by 5' Schedule 80 pipe (anything
in this part should be made of S80), cap it off at both ends. Make a
ring of 1/2" coolant pipes around the inside surface of this, plus a
1/2" in top and bottom for the gas and another 1" in the top for
catalyst loading. Put a screen about 6" from the bottom, and make it
slope downward towards the inlet pipe. The 6" of pipe inside the
reactor is to be perforated. The catalyst outlet is at the bottom of
the unit through the inlet. Now make an outer shell of 10" pipe with
enough clearance to put caps on this pipe as well with the main
reactor inside. The coolant pipes should be interconnected in every
possible way, with a main outlet on both top and bottom manifolds. The
coolant system should be filled with distilled water. You should make
a sizeable square radiator, with a steam-powered fan and return pump
and a steam relief valve set for 100 atmospheres. 10hp should be
enough for both. Load with 6 liters by volume of 100-mesh reduced iron
or magnetite (Fe3O4). This unit should run about 350 degrees Celsius
and about 25 atmospheres.

Now for the final processing. a 3/8" venturi expanding to 6" and then
capped will expand and cool the gases. Just to make sure, run some of
the coolant through this part too. 3/4" to the filtering chamber,
which is a section of 6" pipe sideways with a 1.8 angstrom membrane to
filter out water (out the bottom) and a 4.3 angstrom membrane to
filter light gases out the top pipe. The water is returned through a
500-psi one-way valve to the tank, the gases to a 5 gal. storage tank
thats connected to the main reactor burners, and the fuel to a
grounded, vented storage tank with a meter and pump.

The relief system is rather simple. The pipe from the relief valve
goes through a gas regulator with a 4mm nozzle and then straight
upward for 6 feet, and the top 6" is perforated with 1/4" holes. A
small pilot light from the main gas storage runs here and should be
kept lit while the machine is in operation. Put a shroud on it too.
You dont want to be known as the flaming fart of St. Pete.
Speaking of which..... No smoking anywhere NEAR this thing. Happy
motoring! This thing makes 1 gallon at a time - it will take 15
minutes for the reaction to complete.

The inventor of this device can be reached here.....
James Leigh Holley
10632 N 106th Av #19 Largo, FL 33773
386-266-9073
kelethian@gmail.com