Abstract: The azeotrope assisted power system is a double cycle engine with condenser at an available low temperature and which uses a refrigerant of low boiling point as working fluid, with its boiler held at an elevated constant temperature for good operating efficiency by thermal contact between the boiler and the condenser of an efficient azeotrope assisted heat pump. The efficiency of the heat pump cycle is increased by the use of an azeotrope mixture of two refrigerants which shows a vapor pressure versus temperature less steep than the similar curves for the separate component refrigerants. These are closed cycles with no mixing of fluids between the cycles. The heat pump compressor draws its required power from the engine cycle, leaving some useable energy. The efficiency of the engine cycle is helped by having a stable temperature in the boiler, and the over all efficiency is maintained by preheating the working fluid fed to the boiler by heat exchange with condensate leaving the condenser of the heat pump.

Abstract: A heat transfer system employing a two-stage compressor and a heat recovery system including a flash vapor receiver which pools warm refrigerant from a system condenser, delivering receiver refrigerant vapor to the compressor at its second stage inlet and delivering receiver liquid refrigerant to a system evaporator. The system also employs evaporation, compression and condensation of an oilless refrigerant, or an azeotrope mixture of oilless refrigerants, to reduce compression and resulting power requirements. The system evaporator or evaporators are flooded with refrigerant, with vaporous refrigerant separated and routed to the compressor and liquid refrigerant separated and returned to the evaporators.

Abstract: An oilless double rotor, rotary gas compressor with second stage inputs for precompressed gas is described. A compression rotor having at least three lobes which match in intersection to cavities in a counterrotating valving rotor providing an extended sealing surface. The lobes further provide an extended, near-contact surface with the housing with adjacent lobes defining successive compression chambers. Second stage ports are also provided for input of precompressed gas for use with energy recovery systems. A discharge equalization passage is provided in association with a discharge port for efficient gas exhaust.

Abstract: An absorption type heat transfer and thermally powered temperature pressure potential amplifier system for storing energy by distilling and separating solute from a solution of the solute and a solvent at a low temperature, then amplifying and recovering the temperature and/or vapor pressure potential difference between the solute and the solution at a higher temperature in the form of heat transfer or its mechanical power equivalent. One working fluid is a solute having a low boiling point, the other a solution of the solute in a solvent having a high boiling point such that mutual solubility is poor at low temperatures as indicated by a small vapor pressure difference between solute and solution, and in which the vapor pressure difference between solute and solution greatly increases at higher temperatures. This permits the vapor pressure potential difference to be released in the form of mechanical work when vapor from separated solute is reabsorbed into solution in an absorber at the higher temperature.