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• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
  • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F02G1/00—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants
  • F02G1/04—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F02—COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
  • F02G—HOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • F02G1/00—Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B1/00—Compression machines, plants or systems with non-reversible cycle
  • F25B1/02—Compression machines, plants or systems with non-reversible cycle with compressor of reciprocating-piston type
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B23/00—Machines, plants or systems, with a single mode of operation not covered by groups F25B1/00 - F25B21/00, e.g. using selective radiation effect
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
  • F25B9/002—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the refrigerant
• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
  • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
  • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
  • F25B9/14—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the cycle used, e.g. Stirling cycle

Definitions

• the invention relates to a thermo-hydrodynamic power amplifier.
• Liquids are practically incompressible compared to gases, have a lower, heat-related volume environment, significantly higher specific heat capacities and offer the possibility of exchanging heat better.
• the attempt to use liquids in heat engines as an alternative to working gas was undertaken in the mid-1920s by J. F. Malone from News-castle-on-Tyne (England).
• Fig. 1 the Malone machine is shown schematically. Thereby (1) the working cylinder, (2) the displacement cylinder, (3) the heater which is continuously heated by the external (flame) heat (3a), (4) the cooler, (5) the displacement piston, which is the regenerator ( 2a) 90 ° out of phase with the working piston (6) from hot to cold.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to utilize the fundamental advantages of liquids as thermodynamic working media, already recognized by Malone, in a technically novel construction in such a way that the negative aspects described no longer occur.
• US Pat. No. 2,963,853 discloses a thermohydrodynamic power amplifier in which a piston-cylinder arrangement and a solid crankshaft are arranged in one machine.
• the piston passes through a compression chamber, an expansion chamber and a working chamber in the cylinder.
• a control connecting rod which is separate from the piston and is attached to the crankshaft together with it, switches valve control via various lines, so that when the piston moves, a fluid passes through lines provided for this purpose and controlled by the valves a heater, a cooler and a regenerator.
• the invention is based on the particular object of providing a power amplifier with improved efficiency and, at the same time, increased operational reliability.
• thermo-hydrodynamic booster in which a liquid inside a rigid cylinder is displaced between a hot area and a cold area by means of a driven auxiliary piston through lines of a heater-regenerator-cooler arrangement or a heater-recuperator-cooler arrangement, so that the liquid contracts and expands periodically, giving off an output work that is greater than one drive work on the auxiliary piston per cycle, the booster being characterized in that the liquid in the arrangement is shifted periodically in an alternating flow direction and the output work on a separate one Machine does.
• thermo-hydrodynamic power booster TTK
• the THK goes through a fundamentally different cycle than classic heat engines.
• the liquid is heated isochorically from a to b.
• the initial pressure P o corresponds to the ambient pressure (or a slightly higher pressure).
• a shut-off element (17) opens and the liquid expands by working on a downstream system (hydraulic motor, compressor piston, etc.). This relaxation occurs until the initial pressure P o is again reached at a larger volume and a higher temperature than the initial state a at c.
• classic machines in which the fluid is brought back to the initial state a by mechanical back compression, the contraction of the liquid is brought about by heat extraction in the THK.
• this has the great advantage that, since all useful energy is extracted from b to c during the expansion phase, no mechanical energy has to be temporarily stored in any way (flywheel, wind boiler bsw).
• This principle also lies, as explained below will, the possibility according to the invention of a crankshaft mechanism, with which it exerts constraining forces on the fluid, be completely dispensed with.
• regenerator or recuperator is also included in the heat exchange process during work phases a ⁇ b and c ⁇ a and the expansion of the fluid is performed isothermally, the work process defined by the key points a, b, c is thermodynamic with the exception of irreversible losses in the fluid and heat losses ideal.
• FIG. 4 shows the basic configuration of a THK in combination with a hydraulic motor.
• (11) is the displacement piston which is moved up and down by a linear drive (12) inside the pressure cylinder (13). It periodically displaces the working fluid back and forth via a heater (14), regenerator (15) and cooler (16).
• a hydraulic valve serves as a switchable shut-off element (17). This is closed at the beginning of the cycle (Fig. 3, section a ⁇ b) when the displacer moves down and thus conveys the liquid to the hot side of the system.
• the valve opens and the liquid expands at high pressure with the work being carried out by the hydraulic motor (18) with a connected flywheel (19). The relaxed fluid then collects in the collecting vessel (20).
• a circulation line with the check valve (21) ensures constant circulation of the fluid from the collecting vessel through the hydraulic motor as long as it is rotating.
• the valve (17) is closed, the displacer (11) moves upward and displaces the fluid to the cold side of the system (section c ⁇ a in Fig. 3).
• the cooling fluid contracts to the starting point a of the cycle (Fig. 3) and sucks in fluid via the line (22) and the check valve (23) from the collecting vessel (20).
• regenerator (15) Since the regenerator (15) is flowed through in alternating directions by the hot and cold fluid, it temporarily stores heat almost without loss of entropy (because heat and cold are recovered along a linearly increasing temperature profile) and releases it back to the fluid at the right time.
• thermo-hydrodynamic power amplifier TK
• ⁇ represents the fluid flow under pressure, - - - ⁇ pressurized fluid without movement, ⁇ ⁇ fluid movement with low pressure.
• Fig. 4a the fluid is compressed isochorically.
• the displacement piston (11) driven by the linear drive (12) is on its way down.
• the hydraulic valve (17) is closed.
• the route a ⁇ b is traversed in the PV diagram.
• the fluid level in the expansion vessel (20) is at its lowest level.
• Fig. 4a the fluid is compressed isochorically.
• the displacement piston (11) driven by the linear drive (12) is on its way down.
• the hydraulic valve (17) is closed.
• the route a ⁇ b is traversed in the PV diagram.
• the fluid level in the expansion vessel (20 is at its lowest level.
• Fig. 4b the displacement piston (11) has reached bottom dead center.
• the linear drive (12) stands.
• the hydraulic valve (17) has opened.
• the route b ⁇ c is traveled in the PV diagram.
• the hydraulic motor (18) is driven by the relaxing liquid.
• the fluid level in the expansion tank (20) increases.
• FIG. 5 shows a PV diagram resulting from such a THK process. The process is started again according to the invention when the fluid is in the pressure state P o .
• the medium that expands by moving the fluid from cold to hot flows through the hydraulic motor (17) under increasing pressure until at P ' 1 at b the displacement piston (11) has reached its bottom dead center.
• the fluid then relaxes with the displacer held to point c at P o , and is then contracted by regenerative cooling from c ⁇ a.
• the hydraulic valve (17) is closed during the cycle part a ⁇ b ⁇ c and opened from c ⁇ b.
• Such a variant of the THK cycle achieves lower outputs per cycle, but is characterized by a particularly smooth, continuous run and requires less pressure resistance due to the lower maximum pressure.
• a further advantageous embodiment is the combination of the shut-off properties of the hydraulic valve (17) and the hydraulic motor.
• 6 shows the indicator diagram of such a THK variant.
• the fluid is isochorically compressed (valve 17 is closed) to the intermediate pressure P 1 .
• the fluid relaxes isobarically via the hydraulic motor (18) (valve 18 is open).
• the fluid relaxes from b 'to c (valve 18 is open).
• the valve 18 closed the fluid is again contracted from c to the initial state a by reversible heat removal.
• THK thermoelectric heater
• Fig. 7 the corresponding, necessary by-pass lines with shut-off valves and their temporal use are shown schematically on the basis of the PV diagram.
• the reheating by the heater (14) is due to the desired isothermal relaxation of b ⁇ c desired.
• the fact that the fluid flows from a ⁇ b ⁇ c through the bypass 24c is marked in the PV diagram. If the fluid is subsequently reversibly cooled from c ⁇ a and thereby contracts, only the effect of the cooler (16), but not that of the heater (14), is desired. For this reason, the heater is now shut off via the two valves 25a, 25b and the fluid is directed via the bypass 25c directly through the regenerator (15) and cooler (16) (valves 24a, 24b opened again).
• the bypass lines 24c and 25c are provided with check valves 24d and 25d so that the fluid flows through (16) and (14) when the shut-off valves 24a, 24b and 25a, 25b are open.
• a further embodiment of the THK machine according to the invention is to design it as a multi-cylinder machine (number n of cylinders ⁇ 2) and to control the linear drives (12) of the various cylinders in such a way that the resulting cycle overlap leads to a smoothed drive torque. This leads to much smaller flywheels.
• the purely translatory movement of the expanding and contracting liquid column is also used to drive subsystems such as typically: air compressors, heat pump refrigeration machines, compressors, reverse osmosis systems and the like.
• FIG. 8 shows such a THK machine according to the invention with linear force decoupling and linear conformer. Since the subsystems in this case make a fixed working piston necessary (instead of the "liquid" working piston described so far), the advantageous embodiment of this variant of the object according to the invention is due to the integration of the working piston (26) in the pressure cylinder (13) and in it - And moving displacer (11) given. The air cushion (27) below the working piston makes the expansion vessel (Fig. 3, 26) unnecessary in this design.
• the working piston which in this case also periodically moves downward during the expansion phase under the application of force, is held by the switchable shut-off element (29), which in this case is advantageously designed as a shoe brake which engages around the piston rod, until the desired maximum pressure (in the PV Indication diagram point b) is reached.
• the force is then decoupled via the force conformer (30), which is designed geometrically as a parallelogram.
• the parallelogram is provided with swivel joints in its four corners, which cause its shape to change constantly due to the imprinted movement (indicated by 30, 31).
• this type of THK can also be operated with the cycle variants shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 and described in the text, and can be optimized with the "by-pass" arrangements shown in FIG. 7.
• thermodynamic machine Since the THK represents a reversible thermodynamic machine, there is a particularly advantageous variant according to the invention in its configuration as a refrigerator heat pump.
• FIGS. 9a, 9b, 9c Such a THK machine is shown in FIGS. 9a, 9b, 9c, each with the corresponding work steps during the three work phases of the driving THK machine and the driven THK refrigeration machine heat pump.
• the driving THK machine basically has the same configuration as shown in Fig. 8 and described in the previous text.
• the conformer mechanism (30) pushes the working piston (26a) of the driven refrigeration machine and heat pump into the cylinder (13a) periodically and out of phase with the drive machine due to the pressure-free coupling (33a), which is also described.
• FIG. 9a the phase-shifted working cycles of the THK working machine (line) and the THK cooling machine (- - - - Line).
• FIGS. 9a to 9c To the left of FIGS. 9a to 9c, only the corresponding work cycles of the working machine and the refrigeration machine for the three main work cycles are shown.
• Fig. 9a Working machine The fluid is heated isochorically from a to b.
• the displacer (11) moves towards the fixed working piston (26).
• Chiller The fluid is cooled isobarically by moving the displacer from a 'to c'.
• the working piston (26a) is fixed.
• the pressure-less coupling (33a) is disengaged.
• Fig. 9b work machine The fluid expands isothermally from b to c.
• Working piston (26) and displacement piston (11) move down together.
• the pressure-less coupling (30) is engaged.
• the shut-off element (29) is open.
• Refrigerating machine The working piston (26a) compresses the fluid.
• the displacement piston is fixed at the outer dead center.
• the shut-off element (29a) is open.
• Fig. 9c Working machine
• the fluid contracts by regenerative cooling from c to a .. Working and displacement pistons (26, 11) move upwards in parallel.
• the shut-off element (29) is open.
• the pressure-less coupling (30) is disengaged.
• Refrigerating machine The working piston (26a) is fixed in the bottom dead center by the shut-off element (29a).
• the displacement piston pushes the fluid from b 'to a' (isochoric cooling).
• the chiller heat pump therefore absorbs ambient heat via (16a) (cooler), compresses it isothermally and releases the heat again via (14a, heater).
• the three-stroke cycle that is traveled through is basically analogous to the cycle of the working machine according to the invention, but is "reversed” and works at a lower temperature level.
• the pressures must be matched to one another. According to the invention, this can be done either by appropriate volume ratios from the machine cylinder (13) to the refrigerator machine cylinder (13a), or by a corresponding pressure reduction by means of a stepped working piston between the conformer (30) and the refrigerator.
• THK refrigeration machine heat pump uses the basic principle of the known Vuilleumier refrigeration machine heat pump, which operates according to the Stirling principle, with adaptation to the special cycle of the THK machine. This variant is shown schematically in FIG.
• both cylinder halves are filled with the same fluid at the same pressure (advantageously: 1 bar).
• the displacement drives 12a, 12b move the displacement pistons 11a, 11b with a phase shifted by 90 °.
• the fluid In the hot cylinder 1, the fluid is brought to high pressure by heating by means of 14a. After this pressure has been reached, the valve (35) is opened and the pressure fluid from cylinder I compresses the fluid in cylinder II with the development of heat. After the pressure has been equalized, the displacement piston (11a) moves upwards in the "hot” cylinder, while in the “cold” cylinder the displacement piston moves down.
• regenerators 15a and 15b are transferred and buffered for the following cycle section.
• (11a) and (11b) move up synchronously.
• the valve (35) closes and the cycle begins anew as described.
• cylinder I acts as a regenerative pressure pulsator
• cylinder II as a refrigeration machine heat pump runs through the cycle of the THK pulsator passed through to the right in cylinder I to the left.
• Heat is extracted from a desired room by (14b) at low temperature (refrigeration machine) and released again by (16c) at a medium temperature level (heat pump).
• (16c) When operating as a heat pump or as a combined unit (simultaneous generation of cold and heat), it makes sense to connect the heat flows in series using (16c) and (16a).
• the "Vuilleumier THK” chiller heat pump described here can also be operated without the valve (35).
• the valve (35) is replaced by a permanent, small passage opening in the wall (34).
• the displacers (11a, 11b) are not moved discontinuously out of phase by 90 °, but continuously out of phase by 90 °.
• This simplification of the cycle according to the invention has a lower power density because of the smaller usable pressure fluctuation. This can generally be compensated for by an increased working frequency, which, however, is associated with a poorer efficiency because of the disproportionately increasing hydraulic pressure losses.
• the water used by Malone has many advantages, but also the fundamental disadvantage that, in order to remain fluid over the entire working cycle, it must be subjected to a pre-pressure of> 100 bar. This can basically be achieved with the THK machines described. however, requires expansion tanks and air tanks that are filled with this form.
• THK machines work well in the medium temperature range from approx. 100 ° C to approx. 400 ° C, and the heat input (and cooling) of the fluid is technically particularly easy to implement, the following energy sources for operating the THK are Of particular interest: solar energy including night operation through thermal storage, all biogenic fuels, waste heat in the temperature range mentioned.
• THK machines and combined THK refrigeration machine heat pumps are particularly suitable for cogeneration in buildings, for decentralized energy supply with sun and / or biomass and for the re-generation of (industrial) waste heat.

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