Power conversion system

• US 3,216,199 A
• Filed: 05/15/1962
• Issued: 11/09/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert H. Shaw, Russell A. Thompson
• Original Assignee: Robert H. Shaw, Russell A. Thompson
• Inventors: Shaw, Robert H., Thompson, Russell A.
• Application Number:
  US04/196,548
• Time in Patent Office: 1,274 Days
• US Class Current: 60/670
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/421 Non-solar power generation
• CPC Class Codes: B64G 1/425 Power storage
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 27/02 Plants modified to use their waste heat, other than that of exhaust, e.g. engine-friction heat
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/16 the heat carrier being hot liquid or hot vapour, e.g. waste liquid, waste vapour

Claims

1. IN A POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM, A SOURCE OF HEAT, A FLUID CIRCUIT INCLUDING THE HEAT SOURCE IN WHICH THE FLUID IS VAPORIZED, A TURBINE IN THE CIRCUIT DRIVEN BY THE VAPORED FLUID, A GENERATOR DRIVEN BY THE TURBINE, A CONDENSER IN THE FLUID CIRCUIT DOWNSTREAM OF THE TURBINE, A PUMP IN THE FLUID CIRCUIT FOR RETURNING THE FLUID FROM THE CONDENSER TO THE SOURCE OF HEAT, A SECONDARY FLUID HEATING MEANS IN THE CIRCUIT DOWNSTREAM OF THE PUMP AND BETWEEN THE PUMP AND THE HEAT SOURCE AND A BYPASS CONNECTION FROM THE CIRCUIT UPSTREAM OF THE HEAT SOURCE TO THE CIRCUIT IMMEDIATELY UPSTREAM OF THE PUMP INLET, THEREBY TO BYPASS A PART OF THE FLUID AROUND THE SOURCE OF HEAT, THE TURBINE AND THE CONDENSER.