Title :
A heat engine with unique characteristics
Author :
Baranescu, George S.
Author_Institution :
ATR Corp., Western Springs, IL, USA
Abstract :
A heat engine which operates with one heat reservoir is described. The engine transforms the heat input completely into work by using a compressed fluid from a resource of the environment. For this reason the engine is not a perpetual motion machine of the second kind. The characteristics of the engine are analyzed, and the ways for achieving the most economic use of the compressed fluid are described. The principle of operation of the engine shows that the concepts of phenomenological thermodynamics regarding heat and its transformation in other forms of energy are not true
Keywords :
heat engines; thermal analysis; thermodynamics; characteristics; compressed fluid; heat engine; heat input transformation; heat reservoir; phenomenological thermodynamics; Earth; Environmental economics; Equations; Heat engines; Isothermal processes; Power generation economics; Reservoirs; Springs; Temperature; Thermodynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3547-3
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1996.553785
