Steam Locomotive Driving
Power Steam is back
Generally, people refer "steam" for slow moving Steam Trains and boats of long time left in the dust, a sentimental image of a railway from Victoria can be … not exactly the state of the art eco-power you can say. But the Steam Engine is a new slap Thanks to a company trying to make the steam engine more efficient and compatible with modern technology.
Clean Power Technologies, Newhaven, on the south coast of England, are trying to create a car that runs on the steam. They are developing steam hybrid coupe and reuse the huge amount of energy wasted by the internal combustion engine.
"When you tell people to think you steam going backwards," said Abdul Mitha, CEO Company and president, "Wherever you lose a lot of heat, we can enter, collect heat and convert it into energy savings … Steam has tremendous power. If he can drive a steam Locomotive, why not drive a motor vehicle?
Energy in a tank gasoline vehicles, only 27% is converted into forward motion, 33% is spent cooling the engine, 4% is lost in friction and huge 36% is lost as heat from the exhaust. The company aims to harness the waste heat that is pumped from the exhaust and convert useful power. "There are a lot of heat that is created and totally lost. Clean Power Technologies aims to recover 40% of the exhaust heat, Mitha.
Clean Power Technologies has created an experimental model in which engine exhaust at 750C, the type of truck, is managed by a steam accumulator which heats water to over 360C, the creation of high pressure steam which they are ultimately intended to return to the Main pump motor to drive the pistons. But when they use steam to run the refrigeration units transporting frozen goods in trucks. A demonstration van is under construction must be completed by the end of October. Once they have completed the refrigeration units, the company plans to extend the power electronics and air conditioning for boats, and I hope that by 2011 a steam carriage full hybrid.
The plans are supported by Dr Ralph Clague, a mechanical engineer at Imperial College London, "Recycling exhaust heat and energy that is rejected by the engine must be the way forward in the future. "He believes it was not necessary to improve efficiency before, but people are now facing a minimum of fuel supplies and prices skyrocketing, "A tank of gasoline or diesel tank is such an energy reserve incredibly good that we have been able to afford to throw some of it away until now. "
Although these ideas have been around the industry for some time, Clean Power technology to respond effectively and productively. "It's just an idea made possible … Obviously now with rising oil prices, etc., it becomes essential to extract more energy from the fuel you put in. "Clague.
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