US 10,480,343 B1Granted

Re-circulating heat pump turbine

OwnerKim Alexander Zorziinventor

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Abstract

A super-heated self-compressed air rotary turbine driving a built-in, outside-in axial flux generator is provided for providing power to heaters in thermal communication with the walls of the turbine chambers. Moisture within the working fluid is thus heated, making steam and thereby increasing the pressure of the working fluid. The compression caused by the turbine rotation also increases temperature. The discharge of each turbine chamber is feeding a nozzle. The shaft power drives a main generator, and after passing over the turbine the air stream maintains a portion of its initial energy. The remaining energetic air stream left is then cycled to the compressor, thereby completing the cycle. A main generator driven by the turbine can remain approximately constant, regardless of the load. Input to the compressor can be regulated with the rpm of the compressor motor and the current to the heaters in the turbine.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A re-circulating heat pump turbine comprising:

an air turbine comprising:
a compressed air intake;
an exhaust air discharge;
and
a power turbine contained in a power turbine housing and further comprising:
a rotating air turbine plate formed of a central core rotating about a central shaft;
a plurality of arcuate shaped chambers formed within said central core, each said chamber in fluid communication between the central shaft and terminating each at a radial discharge with a perpendicularly directed nozzle;
each arcuately shaped chamber retaining a thermal heater at an inner portion, each said thermal heater in thermal communication with air flowing from the central shaft through each of the chambers and adapted to create a thermal expansion of liquid entrained air flowing therethrough;
a supercharger comprising:
an operative intake in fluid communication with the exhaust air discharge;
a compressed air discharge in fluid communication with the compressed air intake;
and
a drive motor operatively coupled to and driven by said air turbine;
a DC generator operatively coupled to and driven by said air turbine, wherein during operation air is communicated in a unidirectional circuit between the air turbine and the supercharger;
and
a mix tank for mixing an entrained expansion liquid into an air feed in fluid communication between the compressed air discharge exiting the supercharger and the compressed air intake entering said power turbine;
and
a rotating valve assembly for regulating flow of liquid entrained fluids to said power turbine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/971,290Filed 4 May 2018 · us provisional application
Priority: 12 Jul 2017
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

F01D 15/10
Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of engines with devices driven thereby: adaptations for driving, or combinations…
F01D 1/32
Non-positive-displacement machines or engines, e.g. steam turbines: with pressure velocity transformation exclusively in rotor, e.g. the rotor…
F01D 1/36
Characterised by non-bladed rotor, e.g. with drilled holes: using fluid friction
F05D 2220/40
Application: in turbochargers

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Application62/531,466Us provisional application · filed 12 Jul 2017
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