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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1998
Kent Weber, Rockford, IL (US);
Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Windsor Locks, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for rejecting waste heat (12) from a system (10) including a combustion engine (14), an oxidizer supply (16), and a fuel supply (18). The method includes the steps of providing a fuel flow (32) from the fuel supply (18), providing an oxidizer flow (30) from the oxidizer supply (16), splitting one of the fuel flow and the oxidizer flow into cooling flow (34) and a combustion flow (36), rejecting system waste heat (12) to the cooling flow (34), combusting the combustion flow (36) with the other of the fuel flow (32) and the oxidizer flow (30) to supply combustion gas for the combustion engine (14), and directing the cooling flow (34) into the combustion gas to reduce the temperature of the combustion gas.