Fundaments and system for generating power and portable water
OwnerChristian Grobbelaarinventor
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Abstract
Studies of the variation in latent heat of fluids with temperature and the rate of heat increase with compression were applied to thermodynamic cycles represented in columns (190, 193, 199). This showed that heat may be circulated and that power output (194) can be boosted by catalysts. Practical layouts show that the present 45% efficiency of thermal power stations may be doubled. The invented layouts produce power from reject heat (185, 188) and saves the water required of cooling thermal power stations.
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A combined cycle power generating system applying gravitational compression and decompression of a suitable fluid in a closed circuit in which input heat is transferred to the fluid at one point in the circuit and output power is extracted from the fluid at another point in the circuit, wherein the power generating system comprises a power generating cycle and a thermodynamically countercycling refrigerating cycle, wherein the power generating cycle and the refrigerating cycle co-operate as internal countercycles of the combined cycle, and the power generating cycle and the refrigerating cycle share at least one common operating entropy state of condition point of the fluid.
A process for producing water of improved quality from water of undesirable quality wherein the process includes the step of removing heat from the water of undesirable quality, in that said heat is transferred to a suitable fluid circulating in a combined cycle power generating system which comprises a power generating cycle and a thermodynamically countercycling refrigerating cycle, in that the power generating cycle and the refrigerating cycle co-operate as internal countercycles of the combined cycle and in that the power generating cycle and the refrigerating cycle share at least one common operating entropy state of condition point of the fluid.
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