Energy conversion method
Abstract
Abstract The energy obtained by operation of a high temperature nuclear reactor is utilized by heating in the operating high temperature nuclear reactor a heat exchange medium to a sufficiently high temperature so that by indirect heat exchange between the thusheated heat exchange medium and a suitable reactant an endothermic chemical reaction of the reactant or reactants may be maintained. Such endothermic reaction is carried out and thereby a reaction product is formed which may be reconverted into the initial reactant or reactants by being subjected to an exothermic reaction. Whenever heat is required, the reaction product is subjected to exothermic reaction in indirect heat exchange with a medium which is to be heated. Thereby heat derived from the operation of the high temperature nuclear reactor can be made available at any desired time by carrying out the exothermic reaction under simultaneous reconversion of the reaction product into the reactant or reactants, and the latter may then be again subjected to the endothermic chemical reaction by indirect heat exchange with the heat exchange medium which has been heated in the high temperature nuclear reactor.
Inventors
- 👤 Hans Wolfgang Nuernberg
- 👤 Gerhard Wolff
Bibliographic Details
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Total Claims: 11References Cited (Backward Citations)
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