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Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2024
Applicant:

Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited, Haifa, IL;

Inventors:

Carmel Rotschild, Haifa, IL;

Joseph Cassell, Haifa, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01K 27/00 (2005.12); F01K 7/36 (2005.12); F01K 21/04 (2005.12); F01K 23/02 (2005.12); F01K 25/06 (2005.12); F02C 1/04 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F01K 27/005 (2012.12); F01K 7/36 (2012.12); F01K 21/04 (2012.12); F01K 23/02 (2012.12); F01K 25/06 (2012.12); F02C 1/04 (2012.12);
Abstract

A method for converting heat to mechanical work includes providing incoming heat transfer liquid (HTL) at a first temperature to a plurality of mixing chambers, providing incoming compressed gas at a second temperature to the plurality of mixing chamber, enabling the gas and the HTL to mix, producing a gas-and-HTL mix, enabling the HTL in the gas-and-HTL mix to heat the gas and isothermal expansion of the gas in the gas-and-HTL mix, limiting volume of the gas-and-HTL mix, thereby increasing pressure of the gas and causing acceleration of a flow of the gas-and-HTL mix, causing the gas-and-HTL mix to eject through a plurality of nozzles, thereby converting the heat of the HTL to kinetic energy to cause movement of the plurality of nozzles; and using the kinetic energy to produce mechanical work.


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