Rotating heating chamber apparatus and method of use thereof
OwnerMerton W. Pekrulinventor
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Abstract
The invention comprises a method for heating a fluid in an engine, including: a rotor rotating relative to a stator about a shaft and a set of vanes extending radially outward, relative to an elongated axis of the shaft, between the rotator and the stator, the set of vanes separating a set of expansion chambers, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) applying a shear force to the fluid to form a gas with a rotatable chamber within the shaft of the engine; and (2) exhausting the gas from the shaft to a rotor-vane chamber, the rotor-vane chamber comprising a void in a vane slot on a shaft side of a first vane, of the set of vanes. Optionally, the gas applies a rotation force by passing the gas from the first vane to a trailing expansion chamber of the set of expansion chambers.
Claims5
A method for heating a fluid, comprising the steps of:
- providing an expansion engine, comprising:
- a rotor rotating relative to a stator about a shaft;
- and
- a set of vanes extending radially outward, relative to an elongated axis of said shaft, between said rotor and said stator, said set of vanes separating a set of expansion chambers;
- applying a shear force to the fluid to form a gas with a rotatable chamber within said shaft of said engine;
- exhausting the gas from said shaft to at least one of:
- a sliding vane of said set of vanes;
- and
- a rotor-vane chamber, said rotor-vane chamber comprising a void in a vane slot on a shaft side of a first vane of said set of vanes;
- passing air through an endplate into a rotor chamber, said rotor chamber comprising a chamber within said rotor of said engine;
- heating the air within said rotor chamber to form heated air;
- and
- pressurizing the gas with the heated air by passing the heated air from said rotor chamber to said rotor-vane chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.