A METHOD FOR THE DIRECT TRANSFORMATION OF HEAT ENERGY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY

Abstract

A method is proposed which excludes the necessity for initial capacitor activation in the sources and enables the efficiency and functional reliability of the energy converter to be raised and its weight, dimensions, and inertia to be lowered. This is attained by connecting a capacitor together with a linear inductance into a circuit operating at parametric resonance at a frequency half of that at which the dielectric heats. The essence of the method consists in alternately heating and cooling the capacitor, the dielectric of which possesses a penetrability which is a function of temperature. As a result of a change in the capacitance of the capacitor a variable electric current is excited in the circuit.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 09, 1963
Accession Number
AD0295456

Entities

People

  • I. K. Vul'fel'dt

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alternating Current
  • Capacitance
  • Capacitors
  • Converters
  • Efficiency
  • Electric Current
  • Electric Power
  • Energy
  • Foreign Technology
  • Frequency
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Heat Energy
  • Inductance
  • Power Supplies
  • Resonance

Readers

  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.