Robert Boschgmbh

Matthias Kirner

Thomas Wieland

Walter Lehr

Ekkehard Laqua

Knut Wyrwa

A method for regulating the load in a thermal engine having a power generator in order to keep the voltage or the frequency at the terminals of the power generator constant during load changes using constantly even power usage. Load regulation during load changes by maintaining a constant voltage or frequency in the terminals of the power generator, an electronic system determining the difference between maximum power capacity and present electrical load and this difference being conducted back to the thermal energy process as high-temperature heat by a variable load resistor.

Method for load regulation in a thermal engine having a power generator

A gas-operated generator heater having a thermoelectric energy converter in a heater housing, in which combustion air can be introduced from the surroundings and a gas-air mixture can be supplied to a burner via a blower having a downstream mixing device, with the blower taking in combustion air out of the heater housing and the gas being capable of being supplied to the mixing device, while the heat produced by the burner can be conducted to the thermoelectric energy converter for conversion into electrical energy and the part of the thermoelectric energy converter to be cooled is also cooled. Expensive water cooling of the thermoelectric energy converter, which is susceptible to breakdown, can thereby be dispensed with in that the part of the thermoelectric energy converter to be cooled is surrounded by a pot-shaped cooling tank to which the combustion air can be supplied in the bottom area from the surroundings and the combustion air heated by this part flows into the heater housing via the open top of the cooling tank.

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Gerlingen, Germany

Matthias Kirner