Cold Eats Temperature; it doesn't Touch Heat

TRYING TO GROK BILL TRUITT'S AIR CAR DESIGN

This is just a quick note, hope it's not too confusing. My brain is stirring itself too fast to come to conclusions right now.

The idea is to take into account what air is and how it works, then stay with the real nature of air and do something it wants done with it. Squeezing it into a tank and throwing away the resulting heat is a big favor to the electric company but it does nothing to favor the potential of air.

Compressing air for free is not the idea. Compressing air without high net temperature is the idea. Do any amount of work compressing air and then keep all that heat in the system. A circuit of 1000 psi air is set in motion, that is all. Truitt: "It's all high pressure."

A "constant pressure reserve" (Neal) is a fluid flywheel. The reason Neal used 28 compressing cylinders might be that he was pushing up to 225 psi in a single stroke. The reason conventional compressors can't do that is they have only a few cylinders, they're using useless crank angles against a perfect spring (compressed air)!

"It works because the car is already moving." (Truitt) You're not compressing air without work; you're working as hard as necessary and then conserving all the work plus added ambient heat.

COLD EATS TEMPERATURE, NOT HEAT.

Cold is not the opposite of heat. Heat is energy, and there is no such thing as the opposite of energy. You can't get rid of energy, but you can hide heat by putting it into a cold sink so it won't want to dissipate.

"Compress air in the pipe, in the tank, not in the compressor." (me)

I have a sketch I didn't have time to scan, showing a 2000 psi tank feeding air to a 1000 psi circuit, as needed, to keep the pressure in the circuit steady at 1000 psi. A moving weight (car) runs hydraulic air pumps which can make 1000 psi like cutting butter on a hot day. This comes in at a T into the circuit, with a possible venturi effect(?). Downstream is a 1000 psi tank. Inside the tank, the circuit discharges through a double check valve. Air is taken from the 1000 psi tank to run the car (if expanded from 1000 to 150 psi, and run through a passive heat exchanger, the atmosphere will contribute to recouping that loss). If the pressure tries to go over 1000 psi in this tank, air leaves through a safety valve and goes back into the circuit, which lowers the draft on the 2000 psi storage tank.

What makes this 1000 psi circuit move is heat added between the two check valves in the 1000 psi tank. The setting on the discharge check is tensioned to keep the pressure in the equalizer till the space between the check valves reaches a much higher pressure than 1000, then the equalizer contents all blast into the tank at once. There is your cold sink, and that should make the whole circuit move.

MORE DISORGANIZED NOTES

The heat of compression is completely conserved by pumping into a cold space. It can't dissipate. The cold space is created by HEAT--the wheel pumps push hot air into a partial suction which is cold because of wind chill (Bernoulli's Law).

The Kadenacy effect of 1000 psi suddenly blasting out of the equalizer should be EXTREME and refrigerating.

The admission of ambient air and its internal energy into the tank plus the production of a cold space for the compression heat to hide in kills two birds with one stone. The check valve pump uses high pressure air e.g. 1000 psi to pull at the compressor cylinders. The purpose of the check valve pump isn't to pump air as such, but to generate a cold space or partial suction for the pump to discharge into.

A cold sponge will absorb heat from different sources and the output is only slightly warm, so normal insulation will conserve it all. Math still has to be used to confirm any of this thought experiment.

1. Ambient heat is already in the intake air going into the compressor.
2. Compression heat is added to the air by hydraulic air pumps which raise it to a very high pressure.
3. Electric heaters add more heat to the compressor output air, and Truitt's special heartlike valve is a double check that generates a suction for the pumps to work against. The hot air enters the very cold suction in the equalizer and all the heat is folded into the circuit, only slightly warm, but heat and temperature are not the same thing.

Still not getting that book put together, I don't have time for this blog...

Luther