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Robert W Milling

Hans J Von Ohain

A waste heat recovery system for an internal combustion engine having a mixture of ammonia and water used in the cooling system. The hose and radiator portion of the cooling system is protected from high pressures within the water jacket by a pressure regulator valve. A pump is provided for pumping the coolant from the low pressure system to the high pressure system. Water vapor leaving the water jacket with the ammonia vapor is removed and returned to the water jacket by means of a rectifier. The ammonia vapor is super heated by engine exhaust gases and is then used to drive a turbine. The ammonia gas which has been cooled by expansion in the turbine is used to cool a secondary fluid before the ammonia is returned to the radiator absorber. The secondary fluid cooled by the returning ammonia vapor is used to provide cooling for the rectifier.

Waste heat converter for an internal combustion engine

A passive defense and countermeasure apparatus for an aircraft having a second skin formed as a rectroreflector. The retroreflecting elements are formed in a thin sheet of bright structural aluminum. The retro-reflecting sheet is secured to the stringers between the ribs in the wing structure and the stringers between the bulkheads in the fuselage. The retroreflective sheets form part of the exterior load carrying structure of the aircraft.

Laser defense and countermeasure system for aircraft

A diffuser having a dual-stage configuration with the diffusing element of the first stage aligned perpendicularly to the second stage. The diffuser vanes of the first stage are inclined at an angle to the direction of flow so that the flow field between the first stage and the second stage changes from the conditions before diffuser starting to the conditions after diffuser starting to produce an effect similar to the change in flow cross section of a variable throat area diffuser. The second stage of the diffuser has its wall configured similar to the contour of a two dimensional ramjet inlet diffuser.

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Robert W Milling