Power plants – Fluid motor means driven by waste heat or by exhaust energy...
Patent
1999-09-09
2000-03-07
Tudor, Harold J.
Power plants
Fluid motor means driven by waste heat or by exhaust energy...
123 4156, F02G 7102
Patent
active
H00018414
ABSTRACT:
A system and apparatus for evacuating air from an at least partially enclosed space around an internal combustion engine including an exhaust pipe for the flow of combustion products to atmosphere. The present system and apparatus includes a shaft and structure for mounting the shaft to the exhaust pipe in the exhaust path, and an impeller mountable for rotation on the shaft, the impeller including a first rotor having at least one vane or blade positioned in the exhaust path and oriented so as to be rotatably driven by the flow of combustion products, and a second rotor connected in rotatably driven communication to the first rotor, the second rotor including at least one vane or blade positioned and oriented for propelling air within the enclosure for evacuating the air therefrom.
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Caterpillar Inc.
Kercher Kevin M.
Tudor Harold J.
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