Jones— In your engine conceptual design what is the working gas that is heated and then does work in the decompression portion of the cycle?
Is it the Ar-H gas or a separate gas that is heated by the release of energy from the reactants in the “reaction chamber” (as the cylinder might be called) but not modified by the release of energy . For example,heliume might work well and be conserved without modification in a hermetically “reaction chamber that contained a “fuel” that would react with an appropriate EM trigger—“spark plug.” Introduction of additional fuel stored within the hermetically sealed envelop could be accomplished after the original charge was sufficiently depleted—maybe a day, a week or longer, depending the dynamics of the system parameters that affect the reaction. Bob Cook . Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Jones Beene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 3:10 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:"Burning"hydrogen with argon ? In a closed-cycle piston engine, particularly a Stirling-type, the suggestion is that there could be an inherent thermodynamic advantage in having sequential reactions which are exothermic on formation and then endothermic milliseconds later, on the expansion stroke. A resonance could then be engineered, especially if the decay was sharp and reliable and the engine ran at one speed only. However, this may not be what happens in practice with argon and hydrogen. If the lifetime of argonium happened with endotherm precisely at BDC, then that could present a bonus cooling effect in addition to the change in displacement. This would arguably increase the Carnot spread between the hot end and cold end of the Stirling. I have not been able to find evidence for this type of thermodynamic cycle in the literature. Jürg Wyttenbach wrote: ArH3+ is long time stable and Ar H3+ is the driving factor in Mills original SUNCELL reaction. In fact H3+ is the most abundant form of Hydrogen in deep space.
