Power plants – Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat – Process of power production or system operation
Patent
1995-06-30
1997-06-03
Lazarus, Ira S.
Power plants
Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat
Process of power production or system operation
60659, 60682, F02C 104
Patent
active
056343396
ABSTRACT:
The present invention includes a open-Brayton-cycle automotive power-generation unit adapted to be energized by stored thermal energy. Thermal energy, absorbed from hot thermal-energy-storage material present in a working fluid heating vessel, heats a working fluid that passes through the unit's turbine. The unit also includes a rotary impeller that draws the flow of working-fluid into the unit from the surrounding atmosphere and discharges it into a working-fluid heat regenerator. Within the regenerator, working fluid from the compressor is warmed by thermal energy from hot working-fluid exhausted from the turbine. After passing through the regenerator, working-fluid from the turbine is discharged into the atmosphere. Working-fluid from the compressor flows from the regenerator through the heating vessel into the turbine. An alternator converts energy from the turbine into electricity. The electric energy thus obtained powers a vehicle's electric drive motors. Sealed ceramic tubes, filled with a material having a melting temperature within the operating temperature range of the thermal-energy-storage material, provide thermal energy storage. Regeneration of stored thermal energy may be achieved in various ways including both a combustible-fuel burner and an electrical heater, that are both located within the heating vessel, and by an automated regeneration station.
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Lewis Ralph H.
Wilson David G.
Basichas Alfred
Lazarus Ira S.
Lewis Ralph H.
Schreiber Donald E.
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