VORTICAL THERMOSIPHON-TYPE GENERATOR COOLER

摘要

The invention relates to the field of thermal power and can be used for cooling return water and for producing electrical energy by recovering low-potential heat. In the device, a working substance circulates within a hermetically closed circuit between a heat source and a heat receiver, alternately evaporating and condensing. For the evaporation, the working substance is sprayed from nozzles onto a heat-exchange surface, forming a liquid-vapour spray which sets a shaft into motion. The working substance does work on the shaft, producing a reactive action on the latter, and emerging via pipes with nozzles arranged on the shaft, and also causing a steam turbine arranged on the shaft to start rotating. Some of this work can be expended on ensuring the circulation and compression of the working substance in the circuit, while another portion can be converted into electrical energy. The invention makes it possible to transmit a significant amount of heat from installations being cooled, with little difference between the temperatures of the heat receiver and of the heat source, with a reduced metal content of the evaporator, and with evaporation and condensation zones which are spaced apart at a significant distance from one another.