Solid state engine with alternating motion

Patent · Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5103476

Golestaneh, A A

Heat energy is converted to mechanical motion utilizing apparatus including a cylinder, a piston having openings therein reciprocable in the cylinder, inlet and outlet ports for warm water at one end of the cylinder, inlet and outlet ports for cool water at the other end of the cylinder, gates movable with the piston and slidably engaging the cylinder wall to alternately open and close the warm and cool water ports, a spring bearing against the warm water side of the piston and a double helix of a thermal shape memory material attached to the cool end of the cylinder and to the piston. The piston is caused to reciprocate by alternately admitting cool water and warm water to the cylinder.

• DOE Contract Number: W-31-109-ENG-38
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• OSTI ID: 5103476
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
HEAT ENGINES
DESIGN
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
CYLINDERS
PISTONS
SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT
WASTE HEAT
WATER
ENERGY
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINES
HEAT
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WASTES
425007* - Engineering- Power Cycles- Other- (1980-)
200105 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Heat Utilization