So, I'm going to find the energy needed to compress the gas.
I'm picturing a huuge cylinder able to keep 9000g of gas, witch gives ~200000 litres of gas.
A cylinder 20meter in diameter. Areal (Pi*100dm*100dm). Heigth=6,34dm.
This heigth is reduced to 3,17dm as the pressure is increased...
I assume you're not confused anymore, but the intercooler brings the temp down from 430 to 85 degC. The challenge lies within extracting energy from the air, using and reusing as much as possible as input energy. Is 600% just a load of bull - or is there some possibillity this might work?
R= 8.3145 J/mol K.
So 22,4 l air weighs in at around 29gram. The turbos I'm looking at puts out from ~20 lb/min to 50lb/min. Quite how to read what flow the turbine needs isn't obvious, I'll look into that later..
For 20 lb/min:
~9000 grams=312 mol gas.
Temperature difference: 10C...
So, I've been thinking a lot on this lately. I want to use two turbochargers, one with just the compressor - and one with both compressor and turbine.
Doing calculations at 10 deg C. Doing the math for Norway because commercially avatible evap heat exchangers doesn't really work well in our...