Re: William versus Kalina cycle
Posted by:
Bill Gatlin (IP Logged)
Date: November 10, 2005 04:53AM
<HTML>Hello Arnold,
Well we are working on getting some younger blood interested in steam and S.A.C.A..
As I mentioned back awhile, lightplant performance will be hard to approach in an automobile, but if their big turbines had to go from zero to sixty in six seconds, slam on the breaks, take a corner and then back onto the freeway then slow down for stop & go in a traffic jam and still get that high efficiency, then they could boast a little more.
The engine design I have been working on is comming along very well other than losing my mathcad disk. I am going to a spread sheet layout to run the cycles. This will determine things such as clearances, torque profiles and such.
I will say this much; When I said it will blow the socks off of a diesel engines efficiency I was NOT kidding.
Remember this is a two stage Williams cycle engine with a Joule cycle kicker for cruising. I might say more but don't want to sound like I'm boasting. Not till it's built and dynoed to everyones satisfaction.
Arnold, if you can get that ammonia cycle to work kinda like I layed it out you could be one rich son of a gun, courtesy of the power industry, so probably should keep the details under your hat and locked in your garage.
I suppose that either one or both of us proving success with these projects will gain a mite of intrest.
Best of fortune with yours --------------- Bill G.</HTML>