| 摘要 |
A closed steam cycle power plant uses adiabatic decompression in place of a conventional cooling phase (condenser). The Working fluid is a mixture of vapour and dry gas. It is exhausted from power cylinder 3 into decompression cylinder 11. About 90% down the induction stroke, the inlet valve 12 is abruptly closed. This is claimed to cause a rapid decompression or pressure collapse, and the fluid then adiabatically contracts during the upstroke of decompression piston 13, to a high density in relation to the small portion of latent heat lost to the cooling system 14. This process is claimed to harnesses the intermolecular attraction forces of phase change while being too rapid for complete phase change, thereby increasing the density of the working medium prior to compression. |
