DIFFERENTIAL-CYCLE HEAT ENGINE WITH FOUR ISOBARIC PROCESSES, FOUR ADIABATIC PROCESSES AND A 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 operating a four-process thermodynamic cycle interdependently with the other, forming a complex cycle of eight processes, operating with gas, the circuit of this binary system being closed in a differential configuration, based on the concept of a hybrid thermodynamic system, also referred to as a binary thermodynamic system, this system carrying out a thermodynamic cycle comprising eight processes so that, at any moment of the cycle, same is running two simultaneous, complementary and interdependent processes, four of the processes being "isobaric" and four of the processes being "adiabatic" with variable mass transfer, which may be zero or partial.