HEAT ENERGY PRODUCTION PROCESS AND RESONANT HEAT PUMP/GENERATOR UNIT Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: heat energy generation without fossil fuel combustion. SUBSTANCE: high-pressure, low-pressure, and delivery zones are organized in heat pump/generator unit case. Fluid coming from heating system flows to high-pressure zone wherein it intensively boils up under vacuum. While moving from low- pressure zone through resonant disks, fluid and cavitation bubble streams are separated into many jets of different sectional areas. Rotor blades separate particles from jets and carry them away to high-pressure zone formed in cavity between rotor and case of heat generator with peripheral parts of their blades protruding above outlet holes. Cavitation bubbles admitted to high-pressure zone are immediately condensed causing local microscopic water hammers accompanied by pressure and temperature overshoot in centers of bubbles. Total oscillations in fluid within high-pressure zone caused by cavitation, impacts of jet particles thrown by blades, collision of blade ends are changed over to resonant mode by varying vacuum pressure and fluid flowrate. EFFECT: reduced cost of heat production, improved environmental friendliness, reduced power requirement for heat generation. 2 cl, 5 dwg