Turbo-flywheel-powered vehicle
Patent
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OSTI ID:6447910
A turbo-flywheel-powered vehicle has as the flywheel the rotor of a gas driven drag turbine, which rotor has a mass distribution such that the radius of gyration is at least 0.7 times the radius of the rotor, a combustion can for producing propellant fluid and delivering it to the drag turbine, a rotary air compressor mounted to rotate as a unit with the rotor and having conduit means for conducting compressed air to the combustion can and drive means for coupling the motor to the rolling stock of the vehicle.
- Assignee:
- Joseph Gamell Ind Inc
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4336856
- OSTI ID:
- 6447910
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330500* -- Advanced Propulsion Systems-- Flywheel Propulsion
AIR
COMPRESSED AIR
COMPRESSED GASES
ELECTRIC MOTORS
ENERGY STORAGE
FLUIDS
FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE
FLYWHEEL-POWERED VEHICLES
FLYWHEELS
FUELS
GAS TURBINES
GASES
GASOLINE
LIQUID FUELS
MACHINERY
MECHANICAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
MOTORS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROPELLANTS
ROTORS
STORAGE
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
VEHICLES
330500* -- Advanced Propulsion Systems-- Flywheel Propulsion
AIR
COMPRESSED AIR
COMPRESSED GASES
ELECTRIC MOTORS
ENERGY STORAGE
FLUIDS
FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE
FLYWHEEL-POWERED VEHICLES
FLYWHEELS
FUELS
GAS TURBINES
GASES
GASOLINE
LIQUID FUELS
MACHINERY
MECHANICAL ENERGY STORAGE EQUIPMENT
MOTORS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROPELLANTS
ROTORS
STORAGE
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
VEHICLES