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21st Century Stationary Steam in India |
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TinyTech of Rajkot, India (www.tinytechindia.com) are now producing a range of small steam engines for use with biomass fuelled boilers. More information is available on http://www.tinytechindia.com/steamengine.htm but since the website did not then have any illustrations (it does now as of February 2008), I asked them to provide some which are shown below. Note there are two extra pictures added more recently (26th February 2008). The top picture shows reported 5HP vertical engines Single Cylinder double acting steam engine with reverse lever facility of the following specifications, This engine is useful in the farm for water lifting, electricity generation, agro processing activities such as sugarcane crushing, thresher driving, rice hulling, cotton ginning etc. The lower
picture shows boilers without cover suitable for the 2HP steam engines (larger
boilers are behind). The specification of these boilers is as follow: You can email the company for more information - tinytech@tinytehindia.com
These two further pictures show a 5HP engine which is being used to drive an oil expeller.
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