POWER GENERATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS

摘要

Energy systems providing electrical and heat energy for a single residential house, commercial business or office building. The system is small enough to be stored inside the house or building. The system excess electrical energy may be sold over a power grid. The systems include an explosion proof mono-tube steam generator (3) using amorphous materials. The steam generator (3) may power systems such as: engine-generator (8, 9), domestic hot water and/or air space heaters (16), pools, spas, underground piping for deicing traffic passages, or to power vehicles (4600). The systems may utilize supertropically expanded ammonia vapor against a vacuum generated by chemo-sorption process for converting source of moderate amount of heat into mechanical energy. The system may include a source of ammonia/water liquid, a thermal generator (3) heating the ammonia/water liquid to generate ammonia gas, a positive displacement device (8) for expanding the gas, and generating electricity from a power source driven by the expanding device (8).