EP1651852B1 - Verfahren und einrichtung zur umwandlung von wärmeenergie in mechanische energie - Google Patents

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EP1651852B1
EP1651852B1 EP04723151.9A EP04723151A EP1651852B1 EP 1651852 B1 EP1651852 B1 EP 1651852B1 EP 04723151 A EP04723151 A EP 04723151A EP 1651852 B1 EP1651852 B1 EP 1651852B1
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01BMACHINES OR ENGINES, IN GENERAL OR OF POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT TYPE, e.g. STEAM ENGINES
    • F01B3/00Reciprocating-piston machines or engines with cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis
    • F01B3/0079Reciprocating-piston machines or engines with cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis having pistons with rotary and reciprocating motion, i.e. spinning pistons
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01BMACHINES OR ENGINES, IN GENERAL OR OF POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT TYPE, e.g. STEAM ENGINES
    • F01B3/00Reciprocating-piston machines or engines with cylinder axes coaxial with, or parallel or inclined to, main shaft axis
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F02COMBUSTION ENGINES; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
    • F02GHOT GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT ENGINE PLANTS; USE OF WASTE HEAT OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F02G1/00Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants
    • F02G1/04Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type
    • F02G1/043Hot gas positive-displacement engine plants of closed-cycle type the engine being operated by expansion and contraction of a mass of working gas which is heated and cooled in one of a plurality of constantly communicating expansible chambers, e.g. Stirling cycle type engines

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  • the invention relates to a method for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy by volume, pressure and temperature change of the working medium, in particular gases in several stages and a device for carrying out this method.
  • Such a method and device is eg in the documents WO 03/102403 A and WO 03/012257 A disclosed.
  • Methods for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy, in which the pressure and the temperature of the working medium change in a working space with a variable volume.
  • pressure and temperature increase, both as a result of the noted volume change and, more specifically, in the final phase of volume reduction or in the first phase of repeated volume increase by additional heat energy input either from outside or through Heat development in the medium within the working space (for example, by combustion).
  • additional heat energy input either from outside or through Heat development in the medium within the working space (for example, by combustion).
  • the pressure created by the reduction in volume in the closed working space after deduction of the losses, carries out a work necessary for the subsequent reduction in volume, while the pressure resulting from the additional supply of heat energy also results in the resulting loss after deduction of the losses does mechanical work.
  • volume increase for the supply of the medium used and volume reduction for the discharge of the medium used
  • volume reduction for the discharge of the medium used
  • it is a four-stroke process for the conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy.
  • the supply and discharge of the medium takes place at the beginning of the one clock or the end of the second clock, it is a two-stroke process. All these processes take place according to the known state of the art in a working space, which is subdivided in exceptional cases into two parts.
  • the working medium is sucked into the first stage under volume increase of the first stage, after which the working medium is transferred in volume reduction of the first stage in the second stage by increasing the volume of the second stage, whereupon the working medium in volume reduction of the second stage on the third Stage is transferred with simultaneous heat supply in the fourth stage by increasing the volume of the fourth stage, whereupon it is transferred from the fourth stage with reduction of the volume of the fourth stage in the fifth stage and expanded in this fifth stage by increasing the volume of the fifth stage becomes.
  • the working medium is transferred under volume reduction of the second stage via the third stage with simultaneous heating directly into the fifth stage.
  • the working fluid is cooled when transferred from the first stage to the second stage.
  • the working medium is transferred from the fifth stage with reduction of the volume of the fifth stage and simultaneous cooling in the first stage with simultaneous increase in the volume of the first stage.
  • the working medium is transferred from the fifth stage with reduction of the volume of the fifth stage to the third stage and used for the heating process.
  • the working medium is transferred by reducing the volume of the fifth stage and / or simultaneously cooling from the fifth stage directly into the second stage by increasing the volume of the second stage.
  • the third stage is formed at least according to the invention as a working space with fixed volume, while the other stages are formed as working spaces with variable volume, in particular as rotary piston machines, and in the sense of the passage of the working medium behind the other, partly before the third stage and partly after this stage.
  • the maximum volume of the first stage is greater than the maximum volume of the second stage, wherein the maximum volume of the fifth stage is greater than the maximum volume of the fourth stage and wherein the maximum volume of the fifth stage is greater than the maximum volume of the first stage or equal to the maximum volume of the first stage.
  • the fifth stage is associated with the first stage.
  • the third stage is formed as a combustion chamber and / or as a heat exchanger.
  • the fifth stage is provided with a suction valve.
  • a cooler between the first stage and the second stage and between the fifth stage and the first stage is interposed and a cooler between the combined stage and the second stage interposed.
  • illustration 1 shows the basic embodiment of the invention, on the Figure 2 a modification with cooler between the first and the second stage and between the fifth and the first stage is shown.
  • Figure 3 shows the embodiment in which the first stage is combined with the fifth stage and a cooler between the fifth and the second stage is interposed.
  • the working medium is introduced into the first stage 1 by increasing the volume of the first stage 1, whereupon, when the volume of the first stage 1 is reduced, it changes into the second stage 2 by increasing the volume of the second stage. Then, the working medium is at volume reduction of the second stage 2 in the third stage 3 on.
  • heat is supplied to the working fluid - either from the inside by combustion of fuel in the working fluid, or from outside by heating the third stage, for example, by an external combustion process.
  • the working medium is transferred to the fourth stage 4 whose volume increases at the same time, whereupon the working medium from the fourth stage 4 passes under reduction of the volume of the fourth stage in the fifth stage 5.
  • the working medium expands by increasing the volume of the fifth stage.
  • the working medium is passed under volume reduction of the fifth stage 5 either to the outside or back to the first stage 1.
  • air as a working medium and in an external combustion process as a form of heat supply for the third stage
  • expanded hot air for the external combustion process.
  • the method according to the invention thus represents a thermodynamic cycle with five cycles. In some cases it may be advantageous to take out the fourth step 4 and to lead the medium directly to the fifth step and to expand it here.
  • the working medium advantageously cools during the transfer from the first stage 1 to the second stage 2 in an intermediate cooler 6.
  • thermodynamic cycle has been modified with five cycles to a three-cycle process.
  • the device for carrying out the method described for the conversion of thermal energy into mechanical energy is according to the invention arranged such that the third stage 3 is formed at least as a working space with fixed volume, while the other stages 1, 2, 4, 5, 51 as Workrooms with variable volume are formed. It is advantageous that all stages, with the exception of the third stage, are designed as a rotary piston machine, wherein upon rotation of the rotary piston on the connected by its apex edges surface, the volume of, by this surface and the opposite inner wall of the cylinder, in the piston rotates, delimited space, cyclically enlarged and reduced.
  • the maximum volume of the first stage 1 is greater than the maximum volume of the second stage 2
  • the maximum volume of the fifth stage 5 is greater than the maximum volume of the fourth stage.
  • the third stage 3 serves as a combustion chamber and / or as a heat exchanger.
  • the working medium is first introduced into the increasing volume of the first stage 1 (for example by suction). After reaching the maximum, the volume of this stage begins to decrease and the working medium is displaced into the increasing volume of the second stage 2.
  • the state of the working medium changes in such a way that it has a higher pressure after the transition from the first stage 1 to the second stage 2 also a higher temperature. If an excessive temperature increase is undesirable, the cooler 6 can be interposed between the two stages, as shown in Figure 2. With renewed reduction in volume of the second stage 2, the working medium is transferred from this stage via the third stage 3 to the fourth stage 4 with increasing volume of the bottom.
  • heat is supplied to the working fluid - either by an external combustion process, which stage serves as a heat exchanger, or by internal combustion, much like in combustion chambers of turbines, but with significantly higher pressures.
  • the maximum volume of the fourth stage 4 is usually the same as the maximum volume of the second stage 2, the working medium in the final state in the fourth stage 4 after heating in the third stage. 3 have a higher pressure and a higher temperature compared to the initial state in the second stage. From the decreasing volume of the fourth stage 4 then expands the working medium in the increasing volume of the fifth stage 5, wherein work is done. It is of course possible to modify the device according to the invention such that the maximum volume of the fourth stage 4 is greater than the maximum volume of the second stage 2, thus resulting in a partial isobaric to isothermal expansion between the two stages, and the method according to the invention then resembles the Carnot cycle.
  • the fourth stage can be completely removed, and the working medium can expand from the second stage 2 while heating in the third stage 3 directly in the fifth stage 5.
  • the third stage has a non-zero volume, therefore, when no heat is supplied, partial expansion occurs at the beginning of the supply of the working medium and, after being transferred through the third stage, the working medium has a lower pressure in the fourth stage a lower temperature than in the second stage.
  • the fourth stage of the third stage takes relatively less weight-based amount of working fluid than was transferred from the second stage to the third stage. The remaining amount forms or increases the residual pressure in the third stage.
  • the third stage can be dimensioned both as a small outer surface combustion chamber (to prevent heat loss) and as a large area heat exchanger (to transfer as much heat as possible). In order to transfer as much heat as possible in the third stage and to reduce the work required for the compression phase of the cycle, it is necessary, if possible, to lower the temperature during the transfer from the first to the second phase.
  • the size of the expansion ratio can be selected independently of the size of the compression ratio.
  • the pressure at the end of the expansion corresponds to the pressure at the beginning of the expansion, and therefore the pressure at the lower end of the expansion can be reduced to the pressure of the environment.
  • the working fluid is aspirated with a suction valve 8 at the end of expansion.
  • the working cycle process realized according to the method and the device according to the invention is thus a five-cycle process.
  • the Expansion ratio in the fifth stage 5 ie the ratio between the maximum volumes of the fifth and fourth stage, decreases at the end of the expansion not only the pressure, but also the temperature to a value which corresponds almost to the value of the environment.
  • the fifth stage 5 and the first stage 1 can, in the case of a closed cycle and with an external heating of the working medium in the third stage 3 according to a further feature of the invention according to Figure 3 can be combined and the working fluid can be performed after expansion in the united stage 51 in the second stage 2 via an intermediate cooler 76 and compressed at the same time. Also in this case, it is advantageous to provide the united stage 51 with the suction valve 8. In the context of the invention, therefore, the five-cycle process can be modified in some cases to a three-cycle process.
  • the invention shows both the examples of embodiment and other embodiments resulting from the claims in comparison with known thermal engines (especially with four-stroke cycle) its advantages in that higher working pressures and operating temperatures than turbine engines, as well as a longer period of time Heating the compressed working fluid and also lower pressures and temperatures at the end of the expansion are allowed as in previously known piston engines.
  • the result is a higher efficiency of the cycle and a lower noise and lower emission of carbon and nitrogen oxides in the heating of the working medium by internal or external combustion.
  • the Invention can also be used to advantage for the conversion of solar energy into mechanical energy.

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