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Pranab Jyoti Ghohs seeks assistance for building a working prototype of a technology that would produce electricity from atmospheric heat, based on combining a number of well-proven concepts.

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Originally posted (http://peswiki.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Pranabjyoti&oldid=18176) March 26, 2006

Hello,

My name is Pranab Jyoti Ghosh. I am an Indian physics graduate and I have developed a technology on producing energy without any kind of fuel. This technology produces energy by extracting energy from atmospheric heat.

This technology is a combination of processes that are now in use in different industries and research projects worldwide successfully. In short, the scientific and technical feasibility of this technology can’t be challenged. This isn’t another perpetual motion machine type device. If anyone thinks so, I can answer him or her with scientific proof.

But due to lack of technical and financial backing, I haven’t been able to make a working prototype yet. Can anybody suggest any company or organization that can help me to materialize my project? I am giving below a short summary of my project. Any positive suggestion is welcome.

This project is aimed at producing electricity by using the vast heat content of atmosphere. In this project, this is done by using a mechanical arrangement similar to a heat pump. This system is used to squeeze energy from huge volumes of air and to produce temperature difference by which energy can be produced.

It is to be noted that fresh water and salt are added bonus to this project, as salty brackish water can be used in this project. This is done by vaporizing water inside an enclosed container named “Evaporator� with the help of a vacuum pump. As the vacuum pump sucks air from the container, the water inside began to evaporate and in this process collects its latent heat of vaporization from water. For that reason, the water inside becomes colder and heat began to flow in from outside. Thus in effect, the latent heat of vaporization of water is collected from outside atmosphere.

In the open-cycle OTEC, vapor is produced in the same manner and on experiment it was found that to have vapor flow rate of 1 kg/sec, power needed at the vacuum pump is 3 KW. Whereas, the latent heat embedded in 1 kg of vapor is 2.31 MW. After the vapor is produced, it is heated further with adiabatically compressed, hot air.

After heating the vapor in the Boiler, the hot, compressed air is passed through the Evaporator to give up its residue heat to the water inside. The process is the same as that of common heat pumps sold in the market.

And finally, the temperature difference between the Boiler and the Condenser is created by suddenly releasing the compressed air at the Condenser. And thus a system of real efficiency of >50% is created.

Advantages

I am giving below the merits that I think can be credited to my technology.

• As no fuel is needed, the electricity produced by this technology will be cheaper than that produced by other conventional technologies.
• As no fuel is used, therefore no question of any kind of emission can arise and it is cleaner than most of the existing technology.
• It can be made with present state of technology. No engineering or scientific breakthrough is needed.
• The cost making a plant of this technology is less than that of a thermal power plant of same magnitude. It is by nature much automated, so less manpower will be needed to run and maintain it.
• This technology uses the embedded heat that is stored in the lower part of the atmosphere. In effect it is a part of solar energy falling on earth. That’s why basic source of energy is unlimited and there is no question of depleting reserve like coal, oil, gas etc.
• This technology doesn’t have the limitations and weakness of other present non-conventional energy technology. What is needed to construct a plant of this technology is just warm weather.
• Salt and fresh water are added bonus to this technology, if seawater is used.
• It can be source of low cost air conditioning for buildings of close proximity.

Discussion

• Environmental Heat Engine (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pes_EHE) - Yahoo!Groups discussion list surrounding the environmental heat engine concept. Encouraging replications, refinement of theory, and ultimately getting a feasible product to market.

Contact

Name: Pranab Jyoti Ghosh (User:Pranabjyoti)
Address: 153/10/C, S.N.Roy Rd., Kol – 38, West Bengal, India
Telephone: 91-33-24037734
E-Mail: pranabjyoti_calcutta@rediffmail.com (mailto:pranabjyoti_calcutta@rediffmail.com?subject=Energy_from_atmospheric_heat_mentioned_at_PESWiki.com)

See also

• Directory:Thermal Electric
• Thermal Electric Systems (http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/ThermoElectric/) - index at FreeEnergyNews.com

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