Thermal machine configured to achieve thermal cycling and method of thermal cycling achieved by such thermal machine

摘要

Provided is a thermal machine 121 that realizes a thermal cycle. This thermomachine is operated by a thermal fluid and includes a drive unit 1. The drive unit has first and second rotating bodies 4 and 5, and each rotating body is slidable in the annular chamber 12. It has one piston 7a and the like, which demarcates six variable volume chambers 13'etc. The drive unit converts the rotational motion of the first and second rotating bodies, which are offset from each other, by the first and second cyclically variable angular velocities ω1 and ω2, respectively, into the rotational motion of a constant angular velocity. It is equipped with a configured power transmission device. The thermal machine further includes a compensation tank 44, a regenerator 42, a heater 41, and a burner 40, and the regenerator in which the drive unit and the fluid communicate with each other obtain heat energy from the discharged thermal fluid and obtain it. Further configured to preheat the thermal fluid to be used and sent to the heater. [Selection diagram] Fig. 12