Radiolytic dissociative gas power conversion cycles

USRE31697A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• KMS Fusion, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Henry J. Gomberg · Ann Arbor, US
• John G. Lewis · Ann Arbor, US
• John E. Powers · Ann Arbor, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 14, 1981
• Grant date: Oct 9, 1984
• Expiry date: Aug 14, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

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.