Radiolytic dissociative gas power conversion cycles
US4229942A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 6, 1978 |
| Grant date | Oct 28, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 1998 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S376/907
- WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Gas and combined gas/steam power cycles in which chemical energy is stored in a gaseous working fluid by radiolytic dissociation at a temperature below the temperature of thermodynamic macroscopic dissociation, such that the dissociated portion of the working fluid exists under conditions of macroscopic thermal non-equilibrium. The dissociated fluid components are then recombined with the energy of recombination adding heat to the working fluid for extraction in the power cycle.
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