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US 12,614,951 B2Granted
Solar turbine system and a method thereof
AssigneeEntropy Engines Limited
InventorShamir Pravinchandra Budhdeo
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Abstract
A solar turbine system that utilizes solar radiation energy to generate electricity. The system comprises an energy collecting module, high-pressure cylinder, an asymmetric bi-conical expansion chamber, a vector cancelling condenser, a condensation chamber. The energy collecting module consists of a transparent outer body, a transparent inner body separated by a vacuum, and a 3-dimensional metallic grid. The vector cancelling condenser includes gas outlets facing each other to cancel gas velocity and form saturated vapor, which condenses to fluid.
Claims11
A solar turbine system comprising:
- an energy collecting module configured to receive solar radiation energy and utilize that solar radiation energy to convert a fluid of a phase change material into gas, wherein the energy collecting module comprises:
- a transparent outer body,
- a transparent inner body separated from the outer body by a vacuum,
- a 3-dimensional metallic grid placed inside the transparent inner body,
- an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe;
- a high-pressure cylinder fluidically coupled with the energy collecting module, and the high-pressure cylinder is configured to store the gas at high pressure;
- a turbine fluidically coupled with the high-pressure cylinder and the turbine is configured to generate electricity from the expansion of gas received from the high-pressure cylinder;
- at least one asymmetric bi-conical expansion chamber fluidically coupled with the turbine and the asymmetric bi-conical expansion chamber is configured to cool the gas received from the turbine;
- a vector cancelling condenser fluidically coupled with one asymmetric biconical chamber and the vector cancelling condenser is configured to partially condense the gas received from the asymmetric biconical chamber into fluid form of the phase change material and deliver the fluid to the energy collecting module, wherein the vector cancelling condenser comprises:
- a body defined by at least one wall and an enclosed space,
- at least one pair of delivery tubes having a pair of gas outlets in the body, wherein the pair of gas outlets are facing each other and configured to cancel the velocity of gas coming out from the gas outlets to form saturated vapor of the gas, and condensed fluid is formed by releasing latent heat of condensation from the saturated vapors, and
- a fluid container fluidically coupled with the body, condensation chamber and the high pressure cylinder, the fluid container configured to store the condensed fluid and recirculate a portion of the condensed fluid into the wall of the vector cancelling condenser to absorb the latent heat of the saturated vapours;
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- a condensation chamber fluidically coupled with the vector cancelling condenser, the fluid container and the condensation chamber is configured to receive un-condensed gas from the vector cancelling condenser and condense the un-condensed gas to fluid and deliver the fluid to the energy collecting module and to the fluid container;
- wherein the condensed fluid extracts heat from the vector cancelling condenser to form additional high pressure vapours delivered to the high pressure cylinder to run the turbine.
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A method for operating a solar turbine system comprising:
- a) receiving solar radiation energy using an energy collecting module;
- b) converting a fluid of a phase change material into gas using the solar radiation energy received in step (a);
- c) storing the gas at high pressure in a high-pressure cylinder fluidically coupled with the energy collecting module;
- d) generating electricity by expanding the gas received from the high-pressure cylinder in a turbine;
- e) cooling the gas received from the turbine using at least one asymmetric bi-conical expansion chamber fluidically coupled with the turbine;
- f) partially condensing the gas received from the asymmetric bi-conical chamber into the fluid form of the phase change material using a vector cancelling condenser fluidically coupled with the asymmetric bi-conical chamber, and recirculate a portion of the condensed fluid from the fluid container into the wall of the vector cancelling condenser to absorb the latent heat of the saturated vapours,
- wherein the condensed fluid extracts heat from the vector cancelling condenser to form additional high pressure vapours delivered to the high pressure cylinder to run the turbine;
- g) further condensing the un-condensed gas from the vector cancelling condenser into fluid form using a condensation chamber fluidically coupled with the vector cancelling condenser, and delivering the fluid to the energy collecting module and to the fluid container.
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