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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2010
Jan Gärtner, Sindelfingen, DE;
Thomas Koch, Böblingen, DE;
Andreas Zygan, Malsch, DE;
Jozsef Mercz, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE;
Piroska Merczne, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE;
Jan Gärtner, Sindelfingen, DE;
Thomas Koch, Böblingen, DE;
Jozsef Marton Mercz, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE;
Andreas Zygan, Malsch, DE;
Daimler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a method for recovering energy from the heat dissipated by an internal combustion engine and to an internal combustion engine wherein the pressure and temperature of a liquid working medium are increased from a lower process pressure and a first temperature to an upper process pressure at which the working fluid is heated to a second temperature whereby it is converted to a gaseous phase; the working medium is then expanded back to the lower process pressure whereby mechanical power is generated and the working medium is converted back to a liquid phase, the upper process pressure being adjusted in such a way that the working medium is expanded into the wet steam area close to the saturated steam limit.