Air Transportation • The “Little Iceage” • Increased mining • Vacuum pumps • Steam engines • Explosive gas mixtures • Four stroke engine • Electronic ignition • Petroleum discovery • Mercedes automobile • Wright Brothers
Air Transportation• The “Little Iceage”• Increased mining• Vacuum pumps• Steam engines• Explosive gas mixtures• Four stroke engine• Electronic ignition• Petroleum discovery• Mercedes automobile• Wright Brothers
13-19th Century- “Little Ice Age”
• Lack of sun spots or increased volcanic activity. Ice age ends in 1850.
• Chimney replaced the central hearth in large hall.
• Increased class separation, productivity, intellectual activities, privacy, hygiene, plaster and glass manufacturing.
1564 - Shortage of Copper in England
• Increased mining activity.
• Used charcoal from timber for heat source.
1615 – Acute timber crisis
• Coal burning ‘Reverberatory Furnace’ for glass manufacturing.
• Increased mining for Copper and Coal.
1707 – Iron factory
• Used ‘Reverberatory Furnace’ with modified draught and cleaner coal ‘coke.’
• The new blast furnace dropped the price of iron and displaced expensive brass.
• 1722 used to replace brass cylinders in Newcomen’s pumping engine.
Coal• Anaerobic - in the absence of air
• Formed by anaerobic decomposition of plant material under heat and pressure for millions of years.
Coke
• Soft Bituminous coal is heated anaerobically (1000 oC or 1800 oF) to make coke and give off water, coal gas and coal tar
• Coke is highly porous, burns cleaner than coal, contains more energy/mass and burns hotter than coal.
1705 - Newcomen Engine
• Borrowed steam engine technology from Guericke, Papin and Savery’s ‘Miners Friend.’
• Single piston that was cooled with water every cycle (an accidental innovation). Employed new rocking beam.
• Made of iron instead of expensive brass.
Steam Condensation Experiment
• Heating a partially full water bottle in microwave.
• Rapid condensation in cold water.
• Watch vacuum.mov
Newcomen Engine
Metal alloys
• Alloys are metal mixtures
• Brass is 55-60% Copper (Cu) with Zinc (Zn) and traces of Mn and Fe.
• Bronze is 78-95% Copper with Tin (Sn) and sometimes traces of Pb or Zn. This was the first copper alloy, used over 5,300 years ago.
1769 – Watt’s Separate Condenser Steam Engine• In 1769 James Watt patented his improved steam engine using a separate condenser which eventually led to steam pressure to move the piston in both directions.
• Was 75% more efficient than Newcomen’s.
• This engine needed more precise pistons to eliminate water seal.
Watt’s Separate Condenser
Separate condenser
Separate steamcylinder
Watt’s Double Acting Steam Engine
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Watt originally patented W. Murdock’s idea but did not act on it. He claimed it’s too dangerous.In 1801, Richard Trevithick made the first steam locomotive.
“Puffing Devil” 1801
• Later Matthew Murray produced the first commercially successful steam locomotives (1812), much to ire of James Watt.
• History of steam engines
“Catch-me-who-can” carnival ridein 1808 went 12 mph.
Glasgow Green
• “Near this spot in 1765 james Watt conceived the idea for the separate condenser for the steam engine.”
1775-Wilkinson’s cylinder-boring
machine.• The trigger for Wilkinson’s precision cylinder boring lathe was the need for more precise cannons.
• Turned metal ingot on a stationary cutting tool.
• This also provided the precision cylinders Watt demanded.
1775 – Joseph Priestley’s Eudiometer• Since his brother-in-law was Wilkinson he had all the metal cylinders he needed.
• Electrostatic combustion cylinder.
• Volta’s eudometric pistol
1840 – Whale oil shortage
• Whales nearly extinct in N. Atlantic forces whaling in N. Pacific.
• 1859 Ed Drake discovered oil at Oil creek, Pennsylvania.
• Gasoline was a nuisance byproduct.
• 1876 Nikolaus Otto’s four-stroke engine which used town gas.
Petroleum
• Arguably produced from the slow anaerobic decomposition of marine organisms, over millions of years.
• Natural gas comes from anaerobic decomposition of either plant or marine life. It is the most efficient petrochemical fuel.
The Four Stroke Engine• 1, piston moves down pulling air/fuel into the cylinder.
• 2, The piston moves up compressing the fuel/air mixture.
• 3, Compressed fuel/air is exploded pushing the piston down (power stroke).
• 4, The piston move up eliminating the exhaust from the cylinder.
1892 – Maybach’s float-type carburetor
• Improved technology over older atomizer or wick carburetors circ. 1875
• 1900 -Daimler used Maybach’s carburetor and Volta’s electric spark ignition by Bosch.
• 1901-Wilhelm Kress’s failed airplane attempt.
• 1903- Wright Brothers
Venturi
• As air passes through the Venturi it accelerates while its pressure drops.
• Pressure drop used to pull gasoline into the air.
• Improvement to Maybach’s carburetor in 1900.
• Gas and air exit in turbulent flow which mixes them.
‘Making nuclear power usable again’
• International supervision and control is necessary were using nuclear technology.
• 239Pu is a byproduct of Uranium nuclear reactors and is fissionable material.
‘Chernobyl Today.’
• Significant increase in pediatric thyroid cancer due to 131I.
• Concerns for Fukushima
• Hugh economic burden on Belarus and Ukraine
• Slight increase in leukemia among cleanup crews.
California’s Energy Production
What you should know
• The four strokes of the 4-stroke engine.
• The Venturi principle.
• The connection between volta’s pistol and the carburetor.
• Difference between coal and coke.
• The operation of Necommen’s & Watt’s engines.
• Slide #21
• #23
• #22
• #6-7
• #10 & 12-13
What you should know• What is an alloy
• What is bronze and brass. How are they different.
• What is one radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl & Fukushima accidents.
• Difference between aerobic and anaerobic processes.
• How is crucible steel made. What is its connection to glass making?
• Differential coal & petroleum
• #11 mixture of metals
• #11
• #25 Iodine-131
• #6 Anaerobic - no air
• Recycled steel melted at high temperatures.
• Plants & marine #6 & #20