5 - Applications

5.1 - General principals

Turbivo operates without friction in the work volume and supports:

- low, medium and high pressures;

- low, medium and high temperatures.

It is a sealed machine which runs without internal lubrication.

Depending on the structure of the added components Turbivo can generally be used for

- gas pumps or compressors: air, oxygen, nitrogen, town gas, methane, propane, chemicals;

- pumps for non-charged liquids: water, oil, wine, alcohol, petrol, fuel oil, diesel oil, petrol, chemicals, perfumes;

- hydraulic or pneumatic machinery on building sites or quarries, agricultural machinery, in the lifting gear fitted to certain lorries;

- external combustion heat engines: land, sea and air transport.

Turbivo can also be used in assemblies of two or more, possibly different-sized Turbivos with a common shaft.

For instance:

- a group of two or more different capacity Turbivos working as a staged compressor;

- a group of two different capacity Turbivos, one operating as a compressor and the other as a pressure reducer in an assembly forming an external combustion heat engine. In this case, there must be a separate combustion chamber and at least one heat exchanger, not including the essential accessories.

As the Turbivo operates without friction in the work volume, mechanical losses are low to very low. They are limited to the friction generated in the shaft bearings and the distribution.

Heat engines work according to the Joule cycle and so they have no cooling or exhaust system.

Losses currently experienced in exhaust and cooling systems are therefore mainly converted into mechanical energy.

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