Current Status and Perspectives of the Thermomolecular Engine Developing

Authors : Artem POPYK, Valentin EROSHENKO

Pages : 33-41

Doi:10.5541/ijot.77017

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Publication Date : 2014-02-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Fundamentally new concept of a heat engine on the basis of heterogeneous working body, consisting of liquid and lyophobic towards it capillary-porous matrix was proposed in the middle of 80`s. Unusualness of a new thermodynamic cycle and engine is that the interface of condensed heterogeneous lyophobic systems insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(HWB);, `liquid- rigid solid capillary-porous matrix`, the carrier of free surface energy, serves as a working body insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(in thermodynamic sense); instead of traditional gas/steam. It was first proposed to use potential energy of intermolecular interaction instead of kinetic energy of random insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(thermal); gas / vapor molecules motion.
Keywords : heat engine, lyophobic, surface tension, colloids