Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Update on the Tornado Generator - TAZ

PRELUDE to the Blog
The SkunK asked Mr. Kreisler for his thoughts on this topic and he offered these comments:

"TAZ has been proven to produce results in myriad applications. While additional research is required to understand more about how it produces those results in each application, we know today that geometry plays a significant role in each. Your reference to the dynamics of the Ranque-Hilsch tube is one of several theories developed since the invention of the RH tube over 70 years ago; none of those theories have been proven to my knowledge. Note the difference in geometry, sizing and volume between the tube and the cyclone designs. To the extent angular momentum plays a role in TAZ (or the RH tube for that matter) it is a different role as compared to the RH tube."
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Windaxe, Tornado in a can, Tornado Generator, Biomass Homogenization or nicknamed TAZ. A GERS technology. It took the SkunK wandering through some old articles to come up with some new information. First of all, we know that the only known operating commercial device is in Joplin, MO. The SkunK thinks he has tracked it down to Protein Solutions, (think Pet food) but since it is a non-reporting LLC - the trail runs cold:

. . . Protein Solutions, LLC, located in Joplin, Missouri, where the technology effectively processes and dehydrates poultry products into highly nutritional and shelf stable products. This system operates 24 hours per day, 5 days per week to produce high quality animal fats, chicken broth and dehydrated poultry proteins, and reduces waste and increases profit. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_Jan_25/ai_n26735543

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For the first time we also got some idea on how this thing works. Built off the idea of the Hilsch Tube we get this simple version from Wikipedia:


What is usually agreed upon is that the air in the tube experiences mostly "solid body rotation", which simply means the rotation rate (angular velocity) of the inner gas is the same as that of the outer gas. This is different from what most consider standard vortex behaviour--where inner fluid spins at a higher rate than outer fluid. The (mostly) solid body rotation is probably due to the long time which each parcel of air remains in the vortex--allowing friction between the inner parcels and outer parcels to have a notable effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_tube

The SkunK thinks this means the friction that grinds the object into micron sized pieces is not caused by being rubbed against the outer metal container, but rather the friction between the inner and outer air flows.

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This thing got a lot of press in 2004 when David Winsness was president of "Vortex"

This on how it works from an MSNBC article:

The Windhexe forces highly compressed heated air into four openings at the top; when those airstreams meet, Vortex says, they swirl about and essentially create a miniature funnel cloud, whipping around at incalculable speeds. And yet, the Windhexe generates so little heat that you can safely catch the resulting powder in the palm of your hand as it streams out the bottom.

Even now, they don’t like to divulge much in the way of an explanation of how the machine works. “Speed kills. Information too fast can kill,” said David Winsness, Vortex’s president.

The basic idea is not new — a device called the Hilsch Tube was dreamed up as long ago as 1928 to produce superheated air at one end and supercooled air at the other. But no real use for it could be found. It took Polifka, who farms wheat and milo in Hays, Kan., to provide the practical function, and the ingenuity. He knew the machine should work, and it did. It's just that nobody’s quite sure how.

The Windhexe forces highly compressed heated air into four openings at the top; when those airstreams meet, Vortex says, they swirl about and essentially create a miniature funnel cloud, whipping around at incalculable speeds. And yet, the Windhexe generates so little heat that you can safely catch the resulting powder in the palm of your hand as it streams out the bottom. Conspiracy theorists, meanwhile, propound that the technology was given to mankind by aliens because it appears to create a product that produces far more energy than is put into it — what science fiction writers call a “perpetual motion machine.”

Spin, in the name of the lawIf it’s not violating the laws of physics, the Windhexe appears to have a rakishly outlaw attitude toward them. An upside-down cone just 8 feet tall, with no moving parts, it swiftly (and loudly) reduces pretty much anything to a powder of particles roughly a micron across — about 0.00004 of an inch, or one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.






And here comes the water reference again:

. . . the Windhexe could be used in pasteurization, in desalination of salt water or in “small grinders and dryers" (think kitchen appliances).

Here is the full article and video:


SkunK Optical Illusion. Look at the first picture in this blog. I'm sure you noticed the pretty girl standing in the picture. Now look over her shoulder; notice the tornado? Yeah I didn't see it right away either. I think it is one of those so called "optical illusions" since I swear I stared at that picture for five minutes before I noticed the tornado! Funny thing, Mrs. SkunK the tornado right away.

SkunK

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