Open cycle latent heat engine

Details Open cycle latent heat engine Open cycle latent heat engine

1988-08-15

1989-12-12

Husar, Stephen F.

Power plants

Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat

Power system involving change of state

60649, F01K 2506

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048859133

ABSTRACT:
An open cycle latent heat engine has an elevator (10) rising preferably several thousand feet from a lower level entrance (12) to a higher level exit (13). Warm water vapor is input at the lower level of the elevator passageway (10) to cause moist air to rise, and a condensate remover (17) in an upper region of the elevator passageway removes condensate from the adiabatically expanded air. A compressor passageway (20) descending from exit (13) of the elevator passageway to the region of elevator passageway entrance (12) receives a portion of the air discharged from the exit and adiabatically and gravitationally compresses the dry air descending in the compressor passageway. An ejector arranged in the lower region of the compressor passageway has a nozzle (15) receiving ambient atmosphere flowing into the entrance of elevator passageway (10), where subatmospheric pressure air from compressor passageway (20) merges to help sustain the flow through ejector nozzle (15). Energy can be extracted from the air flowing through the ejector nozzle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4106294 (1978-08-01), Czaja
patent: 4367627 (1983-01-01), Pretini
patent: 4475342 (1984-10-01), Assaf

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