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Photochemical thermal-energy process and generator

US4062348A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 27, 1976
Grant dateDec 13, 1977
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 27, 1996

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E10/40
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A system and an apparatus expose a trapped gas to light, the gas being one which is dissociated by the light from a molecular state to an excited atomic state and which generates heat on reconversion of the excited atomic gas to its molecular state upon contact with a third body entrapped with the gas, the generated heat being transmitted for use.

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