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Internal combustion engine. [piston-type engine combined with gas turbine]

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7355454

The design is given of an internal combustion engine (usual piston type) combined with a gas turbine which helps power the output drive shaft. The exhaust gases and the crankcase vapors of the piston engine, which contain combustible unburned hydrocarbons, are collected, compressed, and supplied to the turbine as fuel. The proportion of the available energy extracted from the basic fuel is increased, and the amount of atmosphere polluting emissions contained in the final exhaust gases are reduced.

Assignee:
TIC; EDB-76-041984; ERA-01-016435
Patent Number(s):
US 3928971
OSTI ID:
7355454
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330100* -- Internal Combustion Engines
330400 -- Advanced Propulsion Systems-- Hybrid Systems
AUTOMOBILES
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
DESIGN
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
ENGINES
EXHAUST GASES
FUEL CONSUMPTION
GAS TURBINES
GASEOUS WASTES
HYBRID SYSTEMS
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
OXIDATION
SPARK IGNITION ENGINES
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
VEHICLES
WASTES