PROSPECTS OF THE MAISOTSENKO THERMODYNAMIC CYCLE APPLICATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The fast growth in organic fuel cost and progressive ambient contamination pushes researchers to search for alternative energy sources. As was recently revealed, the atmospheric air, containing dry gases (O2, N2, others) and water vapor can be considered as an inexhaustible energy source available almost throughout the world. In the adiabatic water-in-air evaporation the latent heat is extracted from air providing the air enthalpy reduction. The nonequilibrium in form of the temperature difference between wet ambient air and air making contact with evaporated water (psychrometric temperature difference, or temperature difference between dry and wet bulb temperatures) can be used as an energy source. Before investigations of American scientist Professor Valeriy Maisotsenko (former citizen of Ukraine), due to a little magnitude, the psychrometric temperature difference was not applied in practice. He was the first researcher who paid attention to how the psychrometric temperature difference can be used in various applications. This paper considers potential applications of M-Cycle in Ukraine in power and heat-and-mass transfer technologies.