Power plants – Reaction motor – Ion motor
Patent
1997-05-06
2000-11-14
Casaregola, Louis J.
Power plants
Reaction motor
Ion motor
3133591, F03H 100
Patent
active
06145298&
ABSTRACT:
An environmentally compatible propulsion system for low maintenance and long term durations at high altitudes is provided which is capable of utilizing high altitude ambient gas as fuel and producing ozone as a by-product of propulsion. The ion engine propulsion system ionizes a portion of an ambient atmospheric fuel to create a negative ionic plasma for bombarding and accelerating the remaining portion of the ambient atmospheric gas in a focused and directed path to an ion thruster anode. The novel ion engines provided create a negative ionic plasma between a cathode ion thruster and a ring-shaped anode in a housing composed of an electrical insulative material in which the cathode ion thruster is charged to -18 to -110 kilovolts (kv) to utilize ambient atmospheric gas as the propellant.
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Casaregola Louis J.
Sky Station International, Inc.
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