摘要:
An internal combustion engine 10 wherein no compression function is carried out in the engine 10 and including a tank 30 of compressed air, a pressure regulator 34, a fuel injector 28, and means 40 and 42 for connecting the pressure regulator 34 and the fuel injector 28 to a foot pedal 38 for controlling air and fuel feed to the combustion chambers 22 in response to throttle demand. The engine can use spark or compression ignition and can provide full expansion. Compressed air can be generated more efficiently using central station power with a vast savings in the amount of oil consumed. The internal combustion engine system of this invention is useful in all applications for such engines including vehicles such as automobiles, trucks, locomotives, marine applications, airplanes, etc. as well as non-vehicle use.
摘要:
A constant pressure, Brayton cycle gas turbine method and apparatus including a combustion chamber and a turbine and using a hot-cool operating cycle comprising a hot phase alternating with cool phase. Gas is continuously fed to the combustion chamber and from the combustion chamber to the turbine. During the hot phase all of the gas fed to the turbine is hot. The gas temperature during the hot phase is higher than the turbine could withstand in a continuous burn mode. However, the time period of the hot phase is less than the time it would take for the turbine blades to "soak" to the high temperature of the hot gas. This provides a high combustion temperature and high efficiency at all times, eliminating the part-load efficiency loss of the prior art, and also eliminating the need for high temperature materials as well as the prior art compressor requirements for large amounts of air. The gas turbine can be of the closed cycle or open cycle type. Applications include, for example, automobiles, air craft, railroad engines, central station power and golf carts.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for converting low frequency current to high frequency current and for applying the high frequency current to the electrodes of a corona generator. The frequency converter includes a rectifier circuit, and a chopping circuit. The chopping circuit includes an SCR and a firing circuit connected to the SCR. The chopping circuit does not require a conventional shut-off circuit. The SCR is connected to an ozone generator through a transformer and automatically shuts off.
摘要:
Certain reciprocating piston internal combustion engines have liquid oxidant and liquid fuel injection schedules that are controlled by a microprocessor that acts upon pre-stored data and upon engine sensor output data. For these engines, the present invention provides a pressure sensor in the working cylinder combustion chamber whose output controls the injection initiation times.
摘要:
An electrode for use as one of a pair of spaced apart electrodes in a corona reactor cell having a corona discharge chamber between the interior surfaces of the electrodes, said one electrode being a flat, rectangular, planar plate having a continuous peripheral edge that curves away from the plane of the plate in a direction away from the interior surface thereof, said edge including the entire peripheral edge of said one electrode and having a uniform width and height, and said one electrode having a ceramic dielectric coating covering the entire area of said interior surface thereof. The electrode can include one or a pair of passageways extending transversely completely therethrough in which case the electrode includes a peripheral wall of the side thereof opposite the interior surface and surrounding and defining the passageway, and in which case the ceramic dielectric coating also covers the interior surface of the peripheral wall.
摘要:
Certain applications of liquid fuel, storable liquid oxidant internal combustion engines require the oxidant to be formed as needed and that only minimal amounts of oxidant need be stored.
摘要:
An internal combustion engine 10 wherein only some compression is carried out in the engine 10 and including a tank 30 of compressed air, a pressure regulator 34, a fuel injector 28, and means 40 and 50 for connecting the foot pedal 38 to the pressure regulator 34 and the fuel injector 28, for controlling air and fuel feed to the combustion chambers 22 in response to throttle demand during high power demand conditions. The engine 10 compresses its own air for cruise conditions but uses stored compressed air (charged from a wayside source) for higher power demand. The engine can use spark or heat ignition, provides full expansion, can be two or four stroke and of the diesel or gasoline type. Compressed air can be generated more efficiently using central station power with a vast savings in the amount of oil consumed. Oxygen enriched (60-80% O.sub.2) compressed air can be used without high temperature problems because of the only partial compression and the high (cooling) expansion ratio and higher rpm.
摘要:
An internal combustion engine of the gasoline or diesel reciprocating piston type wherein the fuel and air are fed into the combustion chamber in the sequence: (1) fuel is fed into the combustion chamber first, and (2) air (preferably compressed air) is then fed into the combustion chamber. This sequence provides both physical and chemical combustion process advantages and can be used in either gasoline or diesel engines of either the 2-stroke or 4-stroke type as well as in applicant's modified 2-stroke type engine.
摘要:
In a corona generator preferably for generating ozone and employing a plurality of corona generating cells each comprising a pair of parallel spaced-apart electrodes and preferably having a fired-on coating of porcelain enamel and connected to a voltage source Vo and having an air gap Ta between said electrodes (between the porcelain enamel coating of the electrodes), said electrodes being spaced apart such that the following equation is substantially satisfied; ##EQU1## WHERE Ta -- air gap in milsVo -- applied peak voltage in voltsTd -- dielectric thickness in mils.epsilon. -- dielectric constant
摘要:
A corona generator method and apparatus preferably for generating ozone, employing a plurality of corona generating cells each comprising a pair of parallel speced-apart electrodes having a fired-on coating of porcelain enamel. The electrodes are connected to an AC voltage source of sufficient voltage to generate a corona discharge, and an oxygen-containing gas is passed between the electrodes to generate ozone. A high concentration ozone is produced as well as a large quantity of ozone, without water cooling, and at voltages of approximately 6,000 volts. An equation setting forth, for the first time, the interrelationships between the various parameters in a corona generator is derived by Applicant. According to the invention, the corona power is maximized by maximizing the expression .epsilon./Td, where epsilon is the dielectric constant of the porcelain enamel coating and Td is the dielectric thickness.