Abstract:
An electric generator is disclosed that includes a duct configured to direct hyperthermal air molecules toward a source of exothermic fuel, a fuel dispenser configured to dispense fuel into a flow of the hyperthermal air molecules to cause a hyperthermic chemical reaction between the fuel and the hyperthermal air molecules that produces highly internally excited air molecules. The excited molecules amplify a seed current. Power harvesting cells are configured to capture and convert the amplified current to electricity.
Abstract:
Singlet oxygen metastables can be formed. A catalytic coating is formed on an interior surface of a flow reactor, and an oxygen containing species is flowed into the flow reactor to produce singlet oxygen metastables by a chemical reaction in the presence of the catalytic coating.
Abstract:
An energy converter reacts hydrocarbons and air on a catalyst configuration to produce a population inversion. A photovoltaic system may extract the radiating energy, and a laser system may extract a significant fraction of the reaction energy in the form of coherent radiation. The flooding of the catalyst adsorption sites with fuel and the choice of catalyst predisposes the adsorbing oxygen molecules to create mono-atomic oxygen hot-atoms, which deposit the considerable energy of oxygen adsorption directly into a reaction channel of adjacent, adsorbed and simple fuel radicals, thereby producing simple, energetic product molecules, concentrating the energy in one or a few modes, and strongly favoring inverted populations. A solid state method to stimulate precursor chemisorbed specie dissociation accelerates the reaction rates, providing a method to greatly intensify pulsed power output, increase efficiency, and to facilitate nano-scale and micro-scale thermal energy heat rejection processes.
Abstract:
An axial flow gas transport laser comprising an excitation tube through which gas flows along an axis of the tube, an inlet arrangement to feed gas towards the excitation tube and an outlet arrangement to discharge gas from the excitation tube. At least one of the inlet and outlet arrangements comprises a circumferential opening arrangements evenly distributed along the periphery of the excitation tube, substantially in a cross-section plane of the tube. A gas flow channel arrangement to the opening arrangement is directed at least substantially in the direction of the excitation tube axis and into the excitation tube at the opening arrangement for preventing wide-areal turbulances of the gas flowing in the excitation tube.
Abstract:
A delta wing nozzle assembly for use within a supersonic chemical laser having a plurality of delta wing-shaped elements which substantially increases the mixing rate of the active reactive gaseous ingredients injected into the resonant cavity of the laser. Each of the plurality of delta wing-shaped elements being of a triangular configuration in which the shape thereof is such that the flow of the gaseous ingredients thereover, normal to the leading edge of the triangular-shaped element, is subsonic. This increased mixing rate substantially increases the output power of the laser.
Abstract:
In a gasdynamic CO.sub.2 laser mixing of hot and cold gasses takes place simultaneously with causing an inversion. The cold gas is air supplied through a compressor at a pressure in the range of 1 to 10 bar into the combustion chamber. Preferably the compressor output is supplied to two points of the combustion chamber, namely a zone directly upstream of and adjacent to the Laval nozzle and a zone in the combustion chamber further removed from the Laval nozzle.
Abstract:
A gas dynamic laser device is formed having an elongated linear combustor having a trapezoidal cross-section. The combustion chamber is formed having a short front plate with two side plates extending rearwardly at an angle to an open end. A short flange extends outwardly from the free end of each side plate and an elongated plate extends forwardly from each short flange to a point located in front of each short plate. A plurality of ribs are placed along the length of said elongated linear combustor normal to the side plates. A primary injection device is placed in said short front plate between each adjacent pair of ribs and a secondary injection device is placed between each adjacent pair of ribs, alternating between side plates extending for the length of said combustor. The oxidizer is passed through the nozzle plates of the nozzle assembly for cooling it and passed through passages in the side plates of the combustion chamber for cooling them. The oxidizer is then passed to the primary injection device for mixing with fuel to be injected therein with a portion of the oxidizer being passed on to a secondary injection device for injection upstream toward said primary injection device.
Abstract:
The present nozzle assembly for gas-dynamic high efficiency lasers with a oling system comprises a plurality of specially formed nozzle members or so-called lamellae. Each nozzle has its own cooling passages, matching bodies and glide surfaces. A series of nozzle members are placed in thermal contact with each other within a mounting or holding block. A coolant flows through said cooling passages which extend through each nozzle throat region and through matching bodies of the nozzle members so that a uniform temperature prevails across the nozzle assembly whereby the nozzle dimensions are maintained constant especially at the nozzle throat width and whereby leakage flows are eliminated.
Abstract:
A minimum length diffuser for transforming low pressure, supersonic laser haust gas flow to a subsonic flow at an elevated static pressure using structures which produce a single, near normal shock, or a single pair of normal shocks due to flow symmetry and also incorporating structures which induce a strong, stable cellular subsonic flow to allow rapid diffusion of the subsonic flow.
Abstract:
A supersonic diffuser for diffusing a low pressure radially expanding supersonic flow to a subsonic flow of increased pressure. In applications having cylindrical geometrics, the diffuser includes a plurality of radially extending, angularly spaced vanes having blunt leading edges which function to generate a detached upstream bow shock.