Husbands and their Combustion Tesla Turbine Systems -

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When it comes to utilizing low-temperature, high-pressure gases for power generation, technologies like Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) and Cryogenic or Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES/CES) are not just theoretical; they’re already in use at the industrial level.

In the context of engine mechanics, the typical workflow involves compressing air, heating it, and subsequently expanding it.

This is the essence of most gas turbines and turbojet engines, which operate based on the Brayton cycle. For those not versed in thermodynamics, the Brayton cycle consists of three key phases:

1) Air compression

1) Heat input (usually through combustion, but other methods work too)

3) Expansion of the heated air.

When considering steam-based systems, you only need to introduce heat to turn the fluid into vapor.

Technologies like Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) can not only produce steam but can also operate using an organic Rankine cycle at notably lower temperatures.

Of special interest is Tesla’s amended turbine patent, GB 186,083.

This inventive design uses the residual heat from the turbine’s exhaust to produce steam.

The generated steam then pre-cools the combustion jet prior to entering the turbine, thereby reducing the usual compression demands seen in traditional gas turbines.

While conventional gas turbines work with air-to-fuel ratios ranging from 100:1 to 200:1, Tesla’s design minimizes the strain the compressor places on the shaft, allowing it to run efficiently even with stoichiometric ratios as low as 15:1.

Furthermore, Tesla’s subsequent patent, GB 186,084, integrates both combustion and steam turbine functionalities, negating the need for a separate compressor.

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