Combined cycle engine

Details Combined cycle engine Combined cycle engine

1989-08-28

1991-03-19

Ostrager, Allen M.

Power plants

Fluid motor means driven by waste heat or by exhaust energy...

Having fluid motor motive fluid treating, controlling or...

F01K 2310

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050000039

ABSTRACT:
The purpose of the Wicks Combined Cycle Engine (WCCE) is to provide a very substantial fuel efficiency improvement relative to the liquid cooled, internal combustion, piston engines that are now utilized by virtually all automobiles, trucks, and buses, and most trains and ships. The method is to recover virtually all of the internal combustion engine heat that is normally rejected through the engine coolant radiator and through the engine exhaust, by a Rankine Cycle that is comprised of a feed pump, feed heater, boiler, superheater, turbine or other type of mechanical power producing expander and air cooled condenser. The reference analysis shows a potential efficiency increase from 25% for existing practice engines to 41.8% for the WCCE.

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patent: 3350876 (1967-11-01), Johnson
patent: 4031705 (1977-06-01), Berg
patent: 4182127 (1980-01-01), Johnson
patent: 4586338 (1986-05-01), Barrett et al.

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