GB1141083A - Method of converting thermal energy directly to electrical energy - Google Patents

Method of converting thermal energy directly to electrical energy

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GB1141083A
GB1141083A GB2214166A GB2214166A GB1141083A GB 1141083 A GB1141083 A GB 1141083A GB 2214166 A GB2214166 A GB 2214166A GB 2214166 A GB2214166 A GB 2214166A GB 1141083 A GB1141083 A GB 1141083A
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component
vapourizable
readily
boiler
injected
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North American Aviation Corp
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North American Aviation Corp
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Priority claimed from US470320A external-priority patent/US3320444A/en
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K44/00—Machines in which the dynamo-electric interaction between a plasma or flow of conductive liquid or of fluid-borne conductive or magnetic particles and a coil system or magnetic field converts energy of mass flow into electrical energy or vice versa
    • H02K44/08—Magnetohydrodynamic [MHD] generators
    • H02K44/085—Magnetohydrodynamic [MHD] generators with conducting liquids

Abstract

1,141,083. Magnetohydrodynamic power plant. NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION Inc. 18 May, 1966 [28 June, 1965], No. 22141/66. Addition 1,031,943. Heading H2A. The method of converting thermal energy into electrical energy as claimed in Specification 1,031,943 is modified by using a multicomponent working fluid containing a readily vapourizable component and a component having a high specific heat. As shown, the multicomponent working fluid is heated in boiler 11 to vapourize one of the components and passed into a nozzle 17 to accelerate the stream, the other component is injected at 22 as a subcooled liquid to be accelerated by the vapour which it condenses. After mixing is completed, the liquid passes through generator section 19 and diffuser 20 into a centrifugal separator wherein the two components are separated and the readily vapourizable component returned to the boiler. The other component is cooled in heat sink 25 and re-injected as the subcooled fluid. The component having high specific heat is preferably lithium and the readily vapourizable component is an alkali metal, e.g. potassium, sodium, caesium. The component fluids may be wholly or partly miscible or completely immiscible and the operating cycle is adjusted accordingly, (Figs. 1, 2 and 3 respectively). In a power generating system, the waste heat from the working fluids is used to raise steam in a normal turbogenerator installation, Fig. 4 (not shown).
GB2214166A 1965-06-28 1966-05-18 Method of converting thermal energy directly to electrical energy Expired GB1141083A (en)

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US470320A US3320444A (en) 1964-04-10 1965-06-28 Method of converting thermal energy directly to electrical energy

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DE (1) DE1538950A1 (en)
GB (1) GB1141083A (en)
NL (1) NL6608976A (en)
SE (1) SE326232B (en)

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4269144A (en) * 1978-09-25 1981-05-26 Ahrens Claude W Swine farrowing hut and method of farrowing pigs and maintaining a disease-free farrowing hut
RU2650887C2 (en) * 2016-06-15 2018-04-18 Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Балтийский государственный технический университет "ВОЕНМЕХ" им. Д.Ф. Устинова (БГТУ "ВОЕНМЕХ") Magnetohydrodynamic generator
CN109074883A (en) * 2016-05-20 2018-12-21 泰拉能源公司 Sodium-caesium vapor trap system and method
US11842819B2 (en) 2017-03-29 2023-12-12 Terrapower, Llc Method for replacing a cesium trap and cesium trap assembly thereof

Cited By (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4269144A (en) * 1978-09-25 1981-05-26 Ahrens Claude W Swine farrowing hut and method of farrowing pigs and maintaining a disease-free farrowing hut
CN109074883A (en) * 2016-05-20 2018-12-21 泰拉能源公司 Sodium-caesium vapor trap system and method
RU2650887C2 (en) * 2016-06-15 2018-04-18 Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования Балтийский государственный технический университет "ВОЕНМЕХ" им. Д.Ф. Устинова (БГТУ "ВОЕНМЕХ") Magnetohydrodynamic generator
US11842819B2 (en) 2017-03-29 2023-12-12 Terrapower, Llc Method for replacing a cesium trap and cesium trap assembly thereof

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SE326232B (en) 1970-07-20
BE681731A (en) 1966-10-31
NL6608976A (en) 1966-12-29

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