Hydro-flow supra-turbine engine

Patent · Tue Aug 04 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:6076930

Neale, A B

A turbine engine operates at high pressure and at relatively low temperatures and revolutions per minute through the use of special carburetion, compressor, combustion unit, and turbine arrangements. The system is characterized by the use of water which is vaporized and concurrently reduces the temperature of the vaporized fuel and air mixture as compression occurs, and is not physically intermixed with the combustion gases until after initial combustion takes place. The compressor includes a pair of back-to-back, four stage composite compressors to which synchronized dual carburetion or meter-flow arrangements separately supply water and gasoline or other fuel, along with air. The water absorbs heat from the compression of both of the two compressors, and the resultant vaporous product gases are routed to the jacket of a combustion chamber in which the compressed fuel and air mixture is burned. Following initial ignition and some burning of the fuel, the superheated steam and combustion products are combined, and the combination is supplied to a multistage transverse flow turbine having in the order of 17 pressure stages. The turbine includes arrangements for directing the high pressure gases back and forth through the rotor blades at different radial distances from the axis of the turbine. Exhaust gases from the turbine are applied to a ''floating'' muffler, including a rotatable inner chamber to facilitate mixing exhaust gases with the ambient air, and to disperse the high moisture content of the exhaust gases.

• Assignee: IFI; EDB-82-012768
• Patent Number(s): US 4281511
• OSTI ID: 6076930
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330103* -- Internal Combustion Engines-- Turbine
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
COMPRESSED GASES
COMPRESSION
CONTROL
DESIGN
ENERGY TRANSFER
ENGINES
FLUIDS
FUEL ECONOMY
GAS TURBINE ENGINES
GASES
HEAT ENGINES
HEAT TRANSFER
HEATING
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
OXIDATION
STEAM
SUPERHEATING
TEMPERATURE CONTROL
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
THERMOREGULATION
VAPORS
WATER VAPOR