972 results about "Steam engine" patented technology

An electric generation station employs a solar array to heat a thermal transfer fluid that is supplied to a heat exchanger to produce steam. The heated steam drives a steam engine that operates either an electric generator to produce electricity or a pump assembly. The pump assembly can pump water to an elevated location for use during peak times by flowing water downwardly past an electric generator. The electric generators can be pelton turbines. One or more thermal fluid storage facilities can be used to store heated fluid, and heat may also be stored in a heat retaining material. Additional optional features and combinations of optional assemblies are disclosed. A method of generating electricity with these systems is also described.

The invention provides a control method for coordination and automatic power generation of a coal quality self-adaptive thermal power generating unit. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, compressively determining the coal quality according to parameters including first-level pressure of a steam engine, drum pressure, coal feed, unit load and the like; 2, by the determined coal quality, performing the coal quality self-adaptive control over main control systems of fuel, coordination, air delivery and the like; 3, by core control strategies of boiler load commands, main steam pressure settings, a coal quality self-checking positive load upper limit and the like, realizing the control over the coal quality self-adaptive coordination and automatic power generation of the thermal power generating unit; and 4, realizing the automatic safe operation of the thermal power generating unit by improving safety locking conditions of the thermal power generating unit. The method has the following obviously advantages that: under a fluctuating condition of the coal quality of the thermal power generating unit, the automatic power generation and the coordination control of the thermal power generating unit are unnecessarily intervened by people, and the scheduling requirements are still met; and compared with the conventional control method, the control method of the invention has the advantages that: the accuracies of the main controlled parameters of the thermal power generating unit are further improved; and simultaneously, the automatic power generation control indexes and the safety and the economy of the thermal power generating unit are enhanced.

A steamer for steaming and/or steam cleaning an object. The steamer includes a reservoir for containing a liquid therein, a pressurized boiler system for generating steam under pressure from a portion of the liquid in the reservoir, a thermostatic control device for controlling a flow rate of the liquid delivered from the reservoir to the pressurized boiler system, and at least one steam output discharge port having a variable aperture size in fluid communication with the output of the pressurized boiler system.

The present invention relates to a hot water unit for a hot beverage maker, in particular a coffee machine provided with a milk foamer, said hot water unit comprising a boiler for providing brewing water and an evaporator for providing steam. The boiler includes a boiler supply, a boiler heating means and a brewing water outlet. The evaporator includes an evaporator supply, an evaporator heating means and a steam outlet. According to the present invention, the boiler and the evaporator are arranged in series, the evaporator supply being implemented as a brewing water supply and connected to the brewing water outlet of the boiler. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of such a hot water unit for connection to a milk roamer and to a hot beverage maker comprising a milk foamer and such a hot water unit.

A hybrid electric vehicle having an array of batteries that recharge with a generator connected to a Stirling engine, steam engine and/or steam turbine powered by combusting a solid fuel product. The battery array for this vehicle, which is a series hybrid, can be recharged using residential electrical current. A preferred solid fuel product for burning in the generator-charging engine of this vehicle is selected from cellulose, lignin and combinations thereof, most preferably in the form of pellets or small logs.

A high efficiency combined cycle internal combustion and steam engine includes a cylinder having a piston mounted for reciprocation therein with an internal combustion chamber outward of the piston, a fixed cylinder cap sealingly and slideably mounted within the piston and a steam expansion/recompression chamber inside the piston adjacent the cylinder cap. The cylinder cap can be unheated or heated externally to reduce condensation of steam entering the steam chamber from a steam generator fired by waste combustion heat. Steam remaining in the cylinder when a steam exhaust valve closes at the top center position is recompressed during an inward stroke of the piston up to admission pressure prior to admitting the next charge of steam. One valve or a pair of retractable steam inlet valves connected in series within the cylinder cap act in cooperation with steam recompression and clearance volume to achieve an effective zero steam chamber clearance and a gain in mean Rankine cycle temperature to maximize efficiency. The amount of steam admitted each outward stroke is continuously regulated, e.g. by shifting the phase of one steam admission valve of a pair to vary their overlap for determining the steam mass admitted during each cycle to reduce specific fuel consumption. Other valves balance steam displacement with the steam generator output to use steam more efficiently. Engine coolant can be evaporated in a combustion chamber cooling jacket to form steam which is then superheated in a combustion exhaust manifold.

A steam engine increases efficiency and prevents corrosion, abrasion, and the like in a part receiving steam pressure. A heater and a cooler are provided on one side of a U-shaped fluid container, and a piston for output is provided on its other side. The heater heats working fluid to vaporize the fluid. The expansion pressure of steam of the working fluid depresses a fluid level in a first vertical pipe. The liquid component of the working fluid flows from the first vertical pipe into a second vertical pipe, thereby applying pressure to the piston in an upward direction. Then, the liquid component of the working fluid functions as a liquid piston directly receiving the expansion pressure of the steam, so that it is possible to prevent the occurrence of corrosion, abrasion and the like in the part receiving steam pressure.

A drip-free garment steamer includes a steamer body having an inlet end and an outlet end, and defining an inner cavity through which steam passes. A plate at least partially covers the outlet end of the steamer body. A plurality of nozzles extend from the plate into the inner cavity of the steamer body, the nozzles defining apertures through the plate for the passage of steam from the inner cavity.

The invention discloses a kind of piston engine without crank, a power converting mechanism made up of mobile gear, gear rack connected to the piston and the driving gear fixed on the straight output main shaft replaces traditional crank link mechanism, and it overcomes the deficiency of current crank-less engine; the mobile gear can move between the connection position and the non-connection position, thus the dynamic force device between the gear rack and the driving gear can be in on/off state; in the exposure distance of the piston, it can transmit force to the main shaft through the force transmitting chain; the back movement of piston doesn't affect the movement of the output main shaft; along with the joining movement of mobile gear, by mating with the other assistant system, the reciprocate straight movement can be changed into the power output with continuous single direction rotation of main shaft. The converter can be used in gasline, diesel, gas inner combustion machine.

The invention relates to an internal-combustion straight-heating steam engine which takes fuel as energy and is based on the structure of an internal-combustion engine. The internal-combustion straight-heating steam engine consists of a crankshaft 1, a connecting rod 2, a cylinder 3, a piston 4, a sprinkler 5, a heat storage carburetor 6, a water tank 7, a high-pressure hydraulic pump 8, a water filter 9, a return pipe 10, a conduit pipe 11, a water pressure regulator 12, an exhaust valve 13, a spark plug 14, an electrical control assembly 15, a wiring harness 16, an intake valve 17, an oil atomizer 18, an oil pressure regulator 19, an oil delivery pipe 20, an oil return pipe 21, a gasoline filter 22, a high-pressure oil pump 23, an oil tank 24 and a cylinder cover 25, and is characterized in that: the sprinkler is arranged on the cylinder cover, the heat storage carburetor is arranged in the cylinder, and the sprinkler is connected with the water pressure regulator which is connected with the water tank by the high-pressure hydraulic pump. In the expansion stroke, the gas combustion causes the temperature in the heat storage carburetor to rise, the sprinkler sprays right amount of water into the heat storage carburetor, then the water is vaporized, and the steam drives the piston to move so as to output mechanical energy. The internal-combustion straight-heating steam engine is characterized by high efficiency, energy saving, environmental protection, and the like.

The invention discloses a coordination control method and system for rapid peak-load shaving of a thermal power generating unit. An improved DEB boiler load command is adopted in the coordination control system of the thermal power generating unit for ensuring that the main vapor pressure control deviation is low when the load of the thermal power generating unit is changed in the peak-load shaving, the boiler can be rapidly adaptive to the output of a steam engine when the load of the thermal power generating unit is changed; a calculation method for the set value of the main vapor pressure of the thermal power generating unit is provided in order to stagger forward overlaying of dynamic compensation parts of the boiler command when the load is changed rapidly, and prevent the changing rate of the boiler command from exceeding an acceptable range of the thermal power generating unit. By adopting the coordination control method, load control rapidness and stability of the running working condition of the thermal power generating unit can be improved extremely; an effective solution is provided for a power grid to improve on the load control rapidness and stability of the unit scheduling, meanwhile, a powerful support is provided for the improvement of the AGC and primary frequency modulation evaluation index of a power plant, so that the method and system have important significance for improving the admission performance of new energy sources.

The invention provides a pressure-adjustable floating abrasive belt grinding device with a feedback. The upper part of a supporting plate is provided with a driving wheel and a cylinder; the piston rod of the cylinder faces downwards vertically and is connected with a fine-adjustment sliding plate by a guide column; the bottom end of the fine-adjustment sliding plate is provided with a contact wheel which is connected with the driving wheel by an abrasive belt which coils an idler wheel; a guide column is movably sheathed by a spring which is in a normal-compression state; the position of the upper end of the spring is limited by a nut which is fixed on a guide column; the position of the lower end of the spring is limited by a baffle which is fixed on the supporting plate; furthermore, the guide column passes through the baffle. The grinding device eliminates the effects of the self-gravity of the grinding head during the grinding process by an added spring mechanism, controls the grinding pressure of the contact wheel within an allowable error range, keeps constant pressure, thus effectively improving the processing precision of complex curved surfaces such as steam engine vanes; furthermore, the grinding device ensures the quality of the profile of the workpiece, and has the advantages of smart concept, simple structure, easy execution, low reconstruction cost, good consistency of product, wide applicable range, and the like.

The present invention relates to a half-body bath/sauna machine for activating blood circulation and the metabolism by warming the lower half of the human body by means of steam, and more particularly, to a steam warming half-body bath/sauna machine for warming the lower half of the human body with medicated steam to prevent and treat blood circulation disorders, metabolic functional disorders, gynecological disorders, stress, poor circulation, geriatric diseases, skin disorders and the like, by providing a sauna compartment that enables a user to sit comfortably with the lower half of the body (the legs) straightened, while medicated steam is uniformly fed into the sauna compartment from a steam device through a steam tube, and providing a cover panel integrally formed with an ingress/egress door of the sauna compartment. In addition, the steam warming half-body bath/sauna machine of the present invention is provided with said sauna compartment that enables a user to sit comfortably with the lower half of the body (the legs) straightened, a steam device configured for good steam generation, and a steam tube, which enable the uniform feeding of medicated steam into the sauna compartment, and the amount of steam generated by the steam device can be suitably controlled through precisely controlling the amount of water supplied to the steam device.

The invention is applicable to the professional technical field of mega-kilowatt-class pressurized water reactor nuclear power stations and provides a pressurized water reactor nuclear power station steam generator water level control method and system. The method includes a steam engine bypass drain valve openness signal, a water feeding deaerator steam inlet valve openness signal and a steam engine steam inlet narrow range signal; adopting a preset secondary loop image load algorithm to acquire secondary loop image load according to the steam engine bypass drain valve openness signal, the water feeding deaerator steam inlet valve openness signal and the steam engine steam inlet narrow range signal; acquiring a water level control signal; adopting the water level control signal to modify the acquired secondary loop image load and adopting the modified secondary loop image load to control a bypass water feeding adjusting valve of the steam generator. By means of the method and system, the steam generator water level out-of-control problem is solved, and heap jumping caused by the fact that the steam generator water level is out of control is avoided.

The invention relates to an internal combustion steam engine that is based on the internal combustion thermodynamic generator. The variable radiators are taken out from the traditional engine, while the warm keep cover, and heat absorbing water spray system formed by water tank, low pressure water pump, water cooling heat exchanger, high pressure pump, high water sprayer, are installed on the outside of traditional engine and connected through the water delivery pipe according to the above order, thereof, the high pressure water sprayer if installed on the high temperature part of the firebox; besides, by reforming the fuel atomization and spraying device onto the air-changing channel to make engine save energy and the more environment-protective.

A system reclaiming contaminated water includes a heat exchanger that receives the contaminated water and converts at least a portion of the contaminated water into steam and collects at least a portion of the contaminants within the heat exchanger. A thermal transfer fluid is heated by a solar concentrator during daytime and by a biofuel combustion device during nighttime. The heated fluid is circulated through the heat exchanger to heat the contaminated water. A steam engine is coupled to a generator, the steam engine receives the steam from the heat exchanger to drive the generator to provide power for the system. Steam exhausted from the steam engine is supplied to supplemental heat loads. The collected contaminants are directed to an evaporation device to remove residual liquid.

The invention provides a thermal power unit cooperative load change control method, including that: load deviation, thermal well water level deviation and deaerator water level deviation are acquired; steady state, loading or unloading process is carried out on the load deviation, thermal well water level deviation and deaerator water level deviation; according to different working conditions, the load deviation and the water level deviation are subject to weighting; the result is subject to half integral and high-low limit intelligent change; a condensate pump outlet door adjustment instruction is obtained; and control at the boiler side is reasonably combined, and performance requirement of thermal power unit load change is met. The thermal power unit cooperative load change control method provided by the invention is a new method utilizing unit energy storage, the control at the boiler side is reasonably combined, and the requirement of peak shaping can be met while greatly reducing steam engine door adjustment throttle loss, thus improving economy of unit operation.