Pneumatic mechanical power source

Abstract

An mechanical power system is provided for providing torque without using a heat engine in virtually any non-aviation application where fossil-fuel engines have conventionally been used, by simply replacing the fossil-fuel burning engine with a rotary pneumatic motor of appropriate size for the application and feeding pressure-regulated compressed gas to the rotary pneumatic motor. The rotary pneumatic motor can be used virtually anywhere, and requires merely a supply of compressed gas to run it, preferably compressed nitrogen. Automotive, marine and electrical generating applications are easily adaptable, and auxiliary fossil-fuel engines can be added for emergencies where a supply of compressed gas has been exhausted. A screw-type compressor can be electrically powered to supply compressed gas to the pneumatic motor where tanks of compressed gas have been exhausted. Tanks of compressed gas are to be conveniently user replaceable. An electrical generating power plant includes an array of solar panels for generating direct current (DC) and a DC / AC converter for converting the DC to alternating current (AC) and outputting a portion of the AC via a power plant output port to supply an AC load.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a novel combination of a rotary pneumatic motor powered by compressed gas in combination with any of a wide variety of conventional applications.[0002]Examples of conventional power applications to which a compressed-gas-driven rotary pneumatic motor may be applied include, without being limited to, transportation, electrical power generation, industrial and commercial power applications, commercial or residential electricity co-generation, operating compressors for compression of suitable gasses for use as a source of operating pressure for rotary pneumatic motors.[0003]The present invention is expressed in three broad embodiments. In embodiment Number 1 a compressed-gas-driven rotary pneumatic motor is conventionally connected to a mechanical device, such as an automotive transmission, wherein the torque output of the rotary pneumatic motor [RPM] is used directly to produce transmitted torque, such as where the RPM, conn...

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Benefits of technology

[0030]It is an object of the invention to provide a transportation locomoting power source that substantially avoids the use of fossil fuels as a source of primary motive energy.

[0058]An additional advantage to be achieved in using electric motors to power the vehicle's traction wheels is the availability of further energy conservation in the form of dynamic regenerative braking, wherein the user's application of brakes causes the one or more electric motors to operate as generators, feeding current to an on-board Lithium-Ion battery array, and thus capturing at least a portion of the vehicle's kinetic energy as electric energy during braking.

Problems solved by technology

Among the huge disadvantages in the conventional fossil-fuel based motive power systems are (1) dependence on increasingly expensive non-renewable fossil fuels as a primary source of energy; (2) unavoidable emission of carbon dioxide as a combustion by-product; and (3) unavoidable enormous waste of the chemical energy of the fossil fuel in the form of heat (every heat engine has a radiator or some other form of heat dissipation means.

The heat energy unavoidably dissipated by heat engines constitutes waste of a substantial portion of the energy original contained within the fuel being consumed).

The remaining 78% of the energy is wasted, chiefly in the form of heat.

Failure to quickly remove waste heat from an internal combustion engine will result in overheating and engine destruction due to seize-up.

Since the atmosphere is thermally disturbed and chemically polluted by dumping of waste heat and carbon dioxide from conventional internal combustion engines.

However, transportation is not the only field in which internal combustion or fossil fuel combustion may be replaced by a compressed-gas-driven rotary pneumatic motor.

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