Power plant with heat transformation
AssigneeMaschinewerk Misselhorn MWM GmbH
InventorJürgen K. Misselhorn
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Abstract
A power plant with heat transfer, in which power is generated by an arbitrary number of heat engines, described above and illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 18. is disclosed. The heat engines (A) are arranged in series with a cooling medium (22) and a heating medium (30) passing through them in a counter flow principal. After exiting the last heat engine the heated-up cooling medium is used as a combustion air. The heating medium (30) exiting in the opposite direction the last heat engine (A) can be used further on for heating purposes or other heating consumers.
Claims42
Heat engine, which by means of four changes of states, namely
- 1) isochoric heat supply
- 2) isothermal expansion
- 3) isochoric heat dissipation
- 4) isothermal compression
- of an enclosed working gas between two temperature levels performs work, and features the following:
- at least three heat exchangers (1A, 1B and 1C), which comprises only one connection each, one connecting pipe (4A, 4B and 4C) to a working cylinder (2) and where each connection is equipped with a valve (5A, 5B or 5C) and the heat exchangers (1A, 1B and 1C) alternately are enclosed by a heating and a cooling medium flow.
Heat engine according to claim (1), where the heating and separately the cooling medium flows simultaneously through the heat exchangers (1), which are arranged exactly aligned on opposite ends of the working cylinder (2).
Heat engine with external heat source and at least 3 heat exchangers (1) with enclosed working gas, which are alternately cooled and heated, wherein the thermodynamic changes of state in each heat exchanger (1) are connected to a working cylinder (2) and valve actuators (5) and (6), and wherein the successively following changes of state occur:
- a) isochoric heat supply, b) isothermal expansion, c) isochoric heat dissipation and d) isothermal compression;
- wherein said expansion and said compression do not take place with the same working gas, and wherein after expansion from a heated heat exchanger (1) into the working cylinder (2), a compression in another cooled heat exchanger (1) follows, and depending on the heating/cooling procedure, expansion and compression are actuated by means of valves in between individual heat exchangers (1) and working cylinder (2).
Heat engine with at least 3 or more closed heat exchangers (1), which perform work together with a working cylinder (2) and working piston (3), wherein an own Stirling cycle takes place in each heat exchanger (1) with working cylinder (2) and working piston (3) chronologically displaced towards the other heat exchanger (1).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.