And Create This !!

"The engine will only have one moving part and will require no
ancillary systems, such as lubrication, cooling or electric. It
is a new type of engine and an alternate energy source all in
one. "

The present proposal relates to a method and apparatus
for reducing the amount of fuel required to
perform work in a steam cycle to generate electricity. The
cycle is a modification of the conventional Rankine Cycle.

In the known Rankine Cycle, fuel is used to heat a vessel
containing water to generate pressurized steam. The steam is
then superheated and passed across a turbine array to power
an electric generator. Upon exiting from the turbine the
exhaust steam is condensed ( vapor to liquid Phase change),
to make it economical to return it to the boiler with the least
amount of parasitic work. In the cycle, two phase changes
occur; once from liquid to vapor and once vapor to liquid.

The amount of heat needed to make the first transformation is
accepted as 950btu/lb , this amount is removed for the
reverse. A representative heat content for the high pressure /
temperature point is 1368 BTU/LB of which 1320 is added to
each cycle. Of this only 370 is convertible to work! The 950 is
then only preparatory and is added / subtracted to it economical
to re-enter the boiler with the smallest volume for the
smallest amount of work. Make sense?

The Obvious solution is to save the 72% (950/1320)
preparatory fuel by devising a way to obviate the phase
change. This then is the goal of this proposal.

Most turbines used for electricity generation expand the steam
to the maximum to extract the maximum amount of heat. This
proposed cycle limits the amount of expansion to the point
where it is still feasible to compress the steam economically.
At some point we pass the economical point of no return, i.e. ,
it is no longer possible to obtain a net work output if work is
used to re-compress the large volume of vapor to the start
point -( work in = work out )

However, if the expansion is stopped before maximum
allowable, or what is currently deemed ideal, and "intra" stage
cooling is effected, it is possible to perform the compression
process and require a minimum of parisitic work.

For example: Compression work can be estimated by dh. If the
vapor to be compressed is cooled during the process by 50%
dh, then 50% of the work of compression is done without
mechanical work. AND the end result will be greater savings.All public buildings. high-rises, schools, remote facilities, shopping malls, and small communities can have their own electric plant. The undeveloped world will be spared the expense of stringing hundreds of miles and thousands of pounds of copper wire between central plants and users. The unit for a police station, school or McDonald"s restaurant could fit into a closet. Air and thermal pollution will be reduced to the minimum.