tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63086948344922493992012-02-20T01:48:21.390-08:00Open discussion about the concept of closed Brayton Cycle gas turbines using low pressure nitrogen (N2) gas as a working fluid and coolant. Heat source is preferably a zero emission, high temperature atomic fission reactor.Rod Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308694834492249399.post-66230023555192380662010-02-28T02:02:00.000-08:002010-02-28T02:02:24.855-08:00

One of the reasons that I decided to use N2 gas as the coolant for Adams EnginesTM is the fact that helium supplies are limited enough so that a new large demand would drive up the price of the gas. I fully expect that someday, direct cycle gas turbines using nuclear heat sources will have the potential for rapid market expansion; I determined a long time ago that I did not want to limit the

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The exact date of my revelation that helium was not the ideal working fluid for closed cycle gas turbines is lost in a pile of papers that may or may not include an old calendar or two. It is not really important, except for the fact that it happened after I had left active duty in the Navy, moved my family to Tarpon Springs, Florida and established Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. as a Florida

Rod Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03652375336090790205noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308694834492249399.post-66521414141673454442009-08-15T03:38:00.000-07:002009-08-16T02:15:15.688-07:00

The best way to lower construction and operating costs is copy the successes and avoid the failures of other projects. That is easy to say, hard to accomplish. As I dug into more details about combining atomic heat with Brayton cycle gas turbines, I opened my research aperture as wide as possible so that I could find out what made both simple cycle combustion gas turbines and light water reactors

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More than a month ago, I concluded the second installment of the Adams Engine™ story with a comment about needing to go earn a living. I had no intention of letting the story go dormant when I wrote that. Sometimes life gets in the way of a good project. I got pretty busy during the period leading up to the 4th of July and kept meaning to get around to telling you more about the Adams Engine™

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If you have taken the time to read the paper that I wrote for EM443 in the fall of 1991, you will see that I had some pretty significant conceptual errors in my understanding of both turbo machinery and the politics and history of energy industry developments. I was definitely naive and had a lot to learn. Fortunately, I was in a great place to learn and had access to a world class university

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The Adams Engine™ started off with a Boolean search on the following string - "nuclear AND gas turbine". Amazingly enough, there were dozens of hits with articles about various projects and conceptual designs that combined the benefits of nuclear reactors producing the heat and Brayton Cycle gas turbines turning that heat into useful power. I did that search in the fall of 1991, while auditing a

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