Hybrid heat engine system

A chamber housing of a hybrid heat engine system, the chamber housing comprising:

• one or more inner surfaces that form a substantially continuous width of an interior volume of the chamber housing from a first inner distal portion of the chamber housing to a second inner distal portion of the chamber housing, wherein:
• the first inner distal portion of the chamber housing is a bottom-most inner surface of the chamber housing;
• the second inner distal portion of the chamber housing is a top-most inner surface of the chamber housing;
• a piston is disposed in the interior volume of the chamber housing;
• and
• the piston is configured to move between the first inner distal portion and the second inner distal portion in the chamber housing without extending beyond the first inner distal portion and the second inner distal portion;
• an inlet configured to receive a first fluid in a heated state from a heat source via a valve;
• and
• an outlet, wherein the first fluid in the heated state is to push against a first distal-most side of the piston to cause a second distal-most side of the piston in contact with a gas to compress the gas disposed in the interior volume of the chamber housing at the second distal-most side of the piston to push a working fluid out of the interior volume via the outlet and through a turbine to generate energy.

A method comprising:

• receiving, from a sensor, sensor data associated with a hybrid heat engine system;
• and
• causing, based on the sensor data, an actuation of a valve to provide a first fluid in a heated state from a heat source to an interior volume of a chamber housing via an inlet of the chamber housing, wherein:
• the chamber housing has one or more inner surfaces that form a substantially continuous width of the interior volume from a first inner distal portion of the chamber housing to a second inner distal portion of the chamber housing;
• the first inner distal portion of the chamber housing is a bottom-most inner surface of the chamber housing;
• the second inner distal portion of the chamber housing is a top-most inner surface of the chamber housing;
• the first fluid in the heated state is to push against a first distal-most side of a piston disposed in the interior volume of the chamber housing to cause a second distal-most side of the piston in contact with a gas to compress the gas disposed in the interior volume of the chamber housing at the second distal-most side of the piston to push a working fluid out of the interior volume and through a turbine to generate energy;
• and,
• the piston is configured to move between the first inner distal portion and the second inner distal portion in the chamber housing without extending beyond the first inner distal portion and the second inner distal portion.