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A new view on thermotransformation process allowed me to invent
a new kind of a thermotransformer with better energy efficiency.
I am searching for an investor (for patenting and realization).
Actuating body inlet (P 0
, T 0
)
Hot stream (P 1
, T 1
)
Cold stream (P 2
, T 2
)
To the resonance pipe’s
nozzle (Fig. 3, pos. 2)
Figure 1. Ranque’s vortex thermotransformer (the classical design)
1 – spiral gas supply; 2 – energy division chamber; 3 – diaphragm; 4 – throttle-unswirler;
5 – resonator (a noise blanking device); 6 – reflector (adjustable);
7 – fitting for cooled gas outlet; 8 – counter-nut; 9 – external beading.
division chamber had a form of a tube. Its forms
have been improved over seventy years; this
can be seen in Fig. 1 (an internal cylinder-conic
cavity, a resonator for noise blanking, an
external fanning). It is still unknown how
thermotransformation occurs, though there are
a lot of theories claiming to explain this process
[5]. It is impossible, for example, to base the
thermotransformation explanation on the
molecular-kinetic theory (including centrifugal
and pressure forces in a model) because molecules
moving along a free path run, as it is well known,
uniformly and in straight lines. Attempts to use
average environmental parameters in the
thermotransformer’s chamber will lead into a
dead end. In 1895, Osborn Reynolds suggested
to describe a kinematics of the vortical motion
on basis of statistical (probabilistic)
characteristics. But even now manuals (for
example, [6]) impose such a disputable approach.
If we translate a “probabilistic nature” into
ordinary language, it means that vorticity is an
effect, which occurs sporadically, i.e. it is a rather
vague, unstable substance. Then, this ephemeral
instability can easily, for instance, cut a tail unit
of 300 aerobus (as it happened above a New
York suburb on the 12th of November 2001.
And a vortex trail of a Japanese air liner, which
took off a couple minutes earlier, was just the
“instability”). However, a life time of an air
structure (the vortex trail) is much less than
that of the above mentioned vortex lenses.
I think it is obvious now that it is rather difficult
but also very important to describe the energy
division process. It must be taken into account
that Ranque’s vortex device is the first example
of the anti-entropic systems designed. If an
initial gas in the chamber is expanded, entropy
(a disorder degree) decreases! A Nobel Prize
laureate Ilya Prigozhin has created
thermodynamics of irreversible processes. But
even it cannot completely explain the discrepancy
between real processes in the vortex
thermotransformer and theoretical consequences
of the second law of thermodynamics. It remains
only to be happy because scientific orthodoxes
have now less opportunities to hamper anything,
which does not fall into their a priori patterns. I
will give a historical fact, which directly
concerns the article’s topic.
In the beginning of the 1960th, the Soviet press
attracted attention to a phenomenon of
“Babiegorodsky pereulok”. In a basement of one
of the houses of this Moscow side street, a
group of physics (“odd fellows”) found out that
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