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A Look at the Automotive-Turbine Regenerator System and Proposals to Improve Performance and Reduce Cost
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The adoption of turbine engines for automotive power plants has been hampered by the high cost, high leakage and high wear rate of present designs of ceramic-matrix regenerators. Proposals are made and analyzed here for design directions to achieve substantial improvements in all three areas. These include lower-cost extruded and pressed matrices; and clamping seals coupled with incremental movement of the rotary-regenerator matrix.
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Wilson, D. and Pfahnl, A., "A Look at the Automotive-Turbine Regenerator System and Proposals to Improve Performance and Reduce Cost," SAE Technical Paper 970237, 1997, https://doi.org/10.4271/970237.Also In
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