A look at the automotive-turbine regenerator system and proposals to improve performance and reduce cost

摘要

The adoption of turbine engines for automotive power plants has been hampered by the high cost, high leakage and high wear rate of present designs of ceramic-matrix regenerators. Proposals are made and analyzed here for design directions to achieve substantial improvements in all three areas. These include lower-cost extruded and pressed matrices and clamping seals coupled with incremental movement of the rotary-generator matrix.