Liquid-Air Power Generation Through Continuous Turbine Expansion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing steam power plants using fossil fuels cause air pollution, contribute to the greenhouse effect, and emit harmful emissions such as CO, CO2, NOx, sulfur oxides, lead compounds, petrol, and diesel steam, posing environmental hazards and health risks.
Innovation Solution
A power generating system utilizing liquid nitrogen or liquid air as an energy source, where superheated steam is heated by atmospheric air, expanding through turbines, and pumped to heaters to generate continuous energy without fossil fuels, with a system design that includes heaters, turbines, and pumps to optimize thermodynamic efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If fossil fuels (LPG, diesel oil, fuel oil, natural gas) are used in steam power plants, then energy generation is achieved, but air pollution and harmful emissions (CO, CO2, NOx, sulfur oxides, lead compounds, petrol, diesel steam) are produced
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the fundamental energy source parameter from fossil fuels to liquid nitrogen/liquid air, fundamentally altering the chemical composition and combustion characteristics. This parameter change eliminates carbon-based emissions while maintaining energy generation capability through alternative thermodynamic cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention converts the previously harmful combustion process into a beneficial thermodynamic cycle. By using liquid nitrogen/liquid air as the working fluid, the system transforms what would be harmful emissions into useful work through expansion and heat exchange processes, eliminating pollution while generating power.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If liquid nitrogen or liquid air is used as energy source, then air pollution is eliminated and continuous energy is provided, but system complexity increases with additional heaters, turbines, and pumps
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into distinct functional modules: heaters for heating the liquid nitrogen/air, turbines for expansion and power generation, and pumps for circulation. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and facilitates easier design, manufacturing, and maintenance despite the overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The liquid nitrogen/liquid air serves multiple functions: it acts as the working fluid in the thermodynamic cycle, the heat transfer medium in heaters, and the expansion medium in turbines. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function, thereby managing system complexity.
3Use of energy by moving object
If heaters, turbines, and pumps are added to optimize thermodynamic efficiency, then thermal efficiency of 51.51% is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous operation through the cyclic process of heating liquid nitrogen/air, expanding it through turbines, and circulating it through pumps and heaters. This continuous cycle ensures steady-state operation at optimal thermal efficiency without requiring complex intermittent control systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system optimizes thermal efficiency by carefully controlling thermodynamic parameters such as temperature, pressure, and flow rate through the heaters, turbines, and pumps. By adjusting these parameters to match the optimal points on the thermodynamic cycle, the system achieves 51.51% efficiency without requiring excessive complexity in the device architecture.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system eliminates air pollution, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and provides continuous energy while being environmentally friendly, achieving a thermal efficiency of 51.51% and a capacity of 29.660 kWh for a 400 kg reservoir.
Implementation Method 1
the liquid heated with heater IV (4) via a ventilator by using atmosphere air
Implementation Method 2
vaporizing liquefied gas coming from a cryogenic store in order to produce pressurized gas
Implementation Method 3
expanding the water vapour formed in a first turbine and using the first turbine to drive an electricity generator
Implementation Method 4
expanding the pressurized fluid in a second turbine to produce electricity
Implementation Method 5
pump I (8) is configured to draw liquid nitrogen or liquid air in the reservoir (7) at atmospheric pressure, pump up a pressure of the liquid obtained from the reservoir (7)
Implementation Method 6
using the heat energy to vaporize water or to heat water vapour, expanding the water vapour formed in a first turbine and using the first turbine to drive an electricity generator
Implementation Method 7
using the first turbine to drive an electricity generator in order to produce electricity
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AI summary
The invention is related to a power generating machine system connected to the thermodynamic field similar to a steam power plant that can be used both mobile and in a fixed manner, which uses fluid liquid nitrogen and/or liquid air mixture and atmosphere air as an energy source. The power generating machine system subject to the invention is not harmful to the environment.