HEAT ENGINE |
APPLICATIONS |
PROTOTYPE |
One can describe this energy converter, or heat engine, as a heat exchanger which transforms part of the heat to pressure pulses of a desired frequency. This pulse rate, in turn, may drive pistons, diaphragms, or anything that can utilize pressure pulses. |
This new energy converter will have many applications, but the first market is perhaps everywhere where there is surplus heating, cooling towers or heat exchangers to dissipate heat. |
The proposed prototype is a small demo box with external dimensions L40 x W40 x H50 cm incl. three control boxes. It weighs about 70 kg, has 6 liters of air which constitutes working volume and a surface area for heat transfer to and from the working volume of approximately two square meters.
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As a second prototype attracts a 1m cube with 6 volumes and control boxes that provide a total of 50 liters working volume with 36m ² area for heat transport. The energy converter naturally follows PV = nRT and the thermodynamic laws. If you have 6 liters or 50 liters of a contained gas, you get the same pressure difference if you raise the temperature of 300 K. However, the work that can be taken out for example by a number of pistons differ. If one uses pistons to benefit the pressure frequency then you will need different pistons and flywheels for various applications and temperature differences, but the modular heat exchanger section (much like plates in a plate heat exchanger) which represents the energy converter basically stays the same. This is our modular heat exchange component product, and we are looking for an industrial partner. |
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