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Welcome to the web site for
Sunoba Pty Ltd. This web site contains details
of two concepts for solar thermal power generation. BRRIMS[1] BRRIMS, our current focus,
denotes solar power generation that is Brayton-cycle Re-heated Recuperated Integrated Modular Storage-equipped The goal is to produce dispatchable
power through a new integration of Brayton-cycle engines, solar thermal heat
collection and pebble bed thermal storage.
The engines will be piston-cylinder, re-heated and recuperated. Utility-scale installations can be built up
in modular fashion from a basic power unit anticipated to be approximately
100 kW. EVAPORATION ENGINE[2] Our previous focus was on the
evaporation engine, a new concept to generate power through evaporative
cooling of hot air at reduced pressure.
The thermodynamic
cycle for the evaporation engine involves hot dry air +
water → power + cooled moist air This cycle was confirmed in an
experimental evaporation engine that was tested successfully in mid 2008. The
evaporation engine can be built in either continuous-flow or piston-cylinder
form. A related technology is the condensation heat pump[2],
which is based on condensation of water vapour in air at reduced pressure and
has the opposite thermodynamic cycle to the evaporation engine. [1] Patent
pending. [2] Australian
patent 2007240126. |
2011-12-14
Beyond-Carnot Heat Pump? 2011-08-16
Evaporation engine output 2011-07-16 ECET
analysis to be published Presentations Embodied Energy in
Batteries and other Storage Devices for Solar Power (2013-04-23,
942 kB, PDF) BRRIMS: Solar
Thermal Power Generation (2013-01-31,
1.03 MB PDF) Passive Solar Power
Generation with Air-blown Thermal Storage (2012-12-06,
1.2 MB, PDF) (708
kB, PDF) 2013-06-13
(Cost of solar power – 36) 2013-06-10
(IPART feed-in tariff submission) 2013-01-01
(Cost of solar power graphic) 2013-05-26
(Cost of solar power – 35) 2013-04-17
(ESOI for solar thermal) 2013-04-06
(Cost of solar power – 34) 2013-03-30
(Farewell to colleagues) 2013-03-08
(Pebble bed paper accepted) 2013-03-04
(Climate change infographic) 2013-02-12
(BRRIMS solar thermal power) 2013-02-11
(Cost of solar power – 33) 2013-02-07
(Solar power: big trends, rapid changes) 2013-01-17
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