Post by dptydawg on Feb 8, 2012 19:46:46 GMT -8
In the wilds of Northern Ontario, well beyond the reach of the electrical grid there is a lumber mill. Originally the mill was powered by water but has recently installed a diesel power plant. The generating station has a pair of 8 megawatt Sulzer primary generators and a Cat 3516B 2.5MW emergency backup unit.
I bought the diecast 3516B genset because I thought it was such a neat piece. We had a couple of them has emergency backup power supplies at our nuke plant. When I bought the RoG 6axle flatbed trailer it came with a V10 genset as a load. I wanted to display these generators at work. I had visions of transformers and switch gear and lots of other cool stuff. I wanted to build the diorama on an old record turntable base that was cluttering up my model room. Thus the dimensions were fixed and the contents of the power plant were limited to what would fit.
I did a bunch of research into the V10 Diesel and came up empty. The basic shape looked like a Sulzer made machine but nobody made V10 gensets. After talking to other model builders we came to the conclusion that RoG shortened a V12 block to fit the trailer/box. Anyway the following are some pictures of what I call Inverhuron GS.
Fred, being the old coal duster that you are, please be gentle on any gaffs that I’ve made. In places I may have abused some of the laws of heat and thermal and fluid mechanics in the name of art.
Cooling tower for the Sulzer
Norscott 1/25th scale diecast Cat. I added the battery bank, a fuel supply line and fire sprinkler heads. The exhaust stacks head up towards an imaginary roof.
The engine block as provided in the Revell kit provided a whole lot of nothing. So I improvised. The intercooler s made from a couple printer cartridges and scratch built a bunch of plumbing for the cooling water and lube oil systems.
On the generator end I added a stator cooling system (the copper plumbing). The plate heat exchangers are stacks of plastic sheets with styrene rod as the bolts.
The colour coding for the plumbing is Ontario Hydro standards of green for service (cooling) water, red for fire systems, yellow for oil systems and blue for air/gases. Most of the valves are made from plastic beads. The oil filter is a NASCAR fuel can
The business end of the power plant. The platform above the Cat allows access for maintenance on the cooling tower. The piping that seems to end in mid-air would go off to the imaginary second genset that is stage right.
I hope that this fits into the misc logging equipment slot.
Thanks
Carl
I bought the diecast 3516B genset because I thought it was such a neat piece. We had a couple of them has emergency backup power supplies at our nuke plant. When I bought the RoG 6axle flatbed trailer it came with a V10 genset as a load. I wanted to display these generators at work. I had visions of transformers and switch gear and lots of other cool stuff. I wanted to build the diorama on an old record turntable base that was cluttering up my model room. Thus the dimensions were fixed and the contents of the power plant were limited to what would fit.
I did a bunch of research into the V10 Diesel and came up empty. The basic shape looked like a Sulzer made machine but nobody made V10 gensets. After talking to other model builders we came to the conclusion that RoG shortened a V12 block to fit the trailer/box. Anyway the following are some pictures of what I call Inverhuron GS.
Fred, being the old coal duster that you are, please be gentle on any gaffs that I’ve made. In places I may have abused some of the laws of heat and thermal and fluid mechanics in the name of art.
Cooling tower for the Sulzer
Norscott 1/25th scale diecast Cat. I added the battery bank, a fuel supply line and fire sprinkler heads. The exhaust stacks head up towards an imaginary roof.
The engine block as provided in the Revell kit provided a whole lot of nothing. So I improvised. The intercooler s made from a couple printer cartridges and scratch built a bunch of plumbing for the cooling water and lube oil systems.
On the generator end I added a stator cooling system (the copper plumbing). The plate heat exchangers are stacks of plastic sheets with styrene rod as the bolts.
The colour coding for the plumbing is Ontario Hydro standards of green for service (cooling) water, red for fire systems, yellow for oil systems and blue for air/gases. Most of the valves are made from plastic beads. The oil filter is a NASCAR fuel can
The business end of the power plant. The platform above the Cat allows access for maintenance on the cooling tower. The piping that seems to end in mid-air would go off to the imaginary second genset that is stage right.
I hope that this fits into the misc logging equipment slot.
Thanks
Carl
