Power plants – Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat – Power system involving change of state
Patent
1984-10-15
1986-02-18
Ostrager, Allen M.
Power plants
Motive fluid energized by externally applied heat
Power system involving change of state
60531, F03G 700
Patent
active
045704449
ABSTRACT:
A solar-powered motor with a wheel-like rotor having a rim separated into hollow compartments. The rotor is designed to revolve around a horizontal axis while containing a volatile liquid in some of its rim compartments. The rotor has a hub, also with separate compartments, and hollow spokes interconnecting the hub with the rim compartments. The interior of the rotor is designed to receive a compressed gas in its hub and sequentially route it, through the hollow spokes, to rim compartments on one side of the rotor axis. When the compressed gas makes contact with the liquid surface in that part of the rim it exerts pressure on that surface. The pressure on the liquid surface forces the liquid to the opposite side of the rotor and into the rim, through an interconnecting series of passageways in the spokes and hub, at a level higher than its original level. This results in an imbalance of weight on one side of the rotor which causes the rotor to turn or rotate under the influence of gravity in a direction tending to restore its weight balance. The rotor continues to rotate as long as the compressed gas is fed into its hub. The compressed gas can be the vapor phase of the volatile liquid in the rotor.
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Crowe John H.
Ostrager Allen M.
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