DIFFERENTIAL-CYCLE HEAT ENGINE COMPRISING FOUR ISOBARIC PROCESSES AND FOUR POLYTROPIC PROCESSES WITH REGENERATOR AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE THERMODYNAMIC CYCLE OF THE HEAT ENGINE

摘要

The present invention relates to a heat engine and the eight-process thermodynamic cycle thereof, and more specifically to a thermal machine characterized by two interconnected thermodynamic subsystems, each implementing a four-process thermodynamic cycle interdependently with one another, forming a complex eight-process cycle, operating with gas, the circuit of this hybrid system being closed in a differential configuration, based on the concept of a hybrid thermodynamic system, this system implementing a thermodynamic cycle comprising eight processes so that, at any moment of the cycle, same is implementing two simultaneous, complementary and interdependent processes, four of these processes being "isobaric" and four being "polytropic" with variable mass transfer, which transfer may be zero or partial.