Mark Beyer on Ranque-Hilsch Vortex Tube Technology
www.americanantigravity.com – Mark Beyer describes a new type of engine he’s developing that combines a modified Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube with a Tesla-Turbine to create a super-durable, high-output engine capable of running on a variety of fuels with higher-efficiency than conventional engines. The Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube is a heat pump with no moving parts in which a pressurized gas is injected into a specially designed chamber. The chamber’s internal shape, combined with the pressure, accelerates the gas to a high rate of rotation (over 1000000 rpm). In a traditional Ranque-Hilsch tube, a temperature differential of hundreds of degrees exists between the cool air at the center of the tube and the hot swirling vortex outside. Beyers research attempts to modify the Ranque-Hilsch process to create a reverse-adiabatic process with a heat-differential measuring thousands of degrees between the hot-flow on the interior of the device and a cool outer-vortex airflow to provide a buffer for the reaction, making the outside skin cool to the touch and thus machinable out of inexpensive aluminum alloys. In this interview we discuss some of the fundamental differences between the Ranque-Hilsch process and the very similar GEET process which uses a vortex-pressure differential in a tube to create a high-efficiency plasma reaction. While GEET has the advantage of running from multiple fuels and burning them effectively at super-high temperatures, it suffers from the drawback of …
