Liquid piston engine design

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"Recently, waste heat recovery system from automobile exhaust gas has attracted a lot of attention as one of the promising technology to improve fuel efficiency and to reduce carbon dioxide emission. In order to put this system into practice, we developed a novel liquid-piston steam engine which has large potential of high efficiency, high reliability and low cost. Thermal efficiency of 12.7 % is achieved at temperatures of Th = 270 °C and l = 80 °C. Finally, electrical output of waste heat recovery system with the liquid-piston steam engine is estimated to be 44 or 79Wh under NEDC or HWFET modes, respectively."



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Back in the 80's I disclosed a turbine engine powered by steam generated by the exhaust manifold of a gas / diesel engine to recover wasted heat energy. The company refused to consider using it. This was Chrysler Corp. . I worked there in power plant development and was part of the Rankine cycle, electric car, hydrogen car and turbine car development groups. I will see if I can locate some of the tech papers that were generated while spending a couple years designing the system. Interesting read.

Many technical papers on steam propulsion ( and many other technologies) development can be found in this library:
[digital.library.unt.edu]

Theory and tests of two-phase turbines
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Biphase turbine bottoming cycle for a diesel engine
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Design study of a two-phase turbine bottoming cycle. Final report
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