Patent ID: 8424306

Claim:
An air-water power generation system comprising: a boiler comprising conduits for the passage of a working fluid where the working fluid is boiled and superheated; spaces between the boiler conduits for the passage of air to supply heat to boil and superheat the working fluid as the air is cooled; a counter-flow heat exchanger to further cool the air; a turbine or other expander for utilizing the working fluid vapor to produce mechanical power; a condenser comprising conduits for the working fluid for condensing the working fluid vapor to a working fluid liquid after the working fluid vapor leaves the turbine or other expander; channels between the condenser conduits for conducting the cooled air along surfaces of the condenser conduits; a water intake pipe; water spreaders at an outside top of the condenser conduits for accepting water from the water intake pipe and for distributing a thin film of the water to flow down an outside of the condenser conduits; channels for conducting the cooled air back to the counter-flow heat exchanger to provide cooling for the air flowing from the boiler; a pump to pump the working fluid liquid from the condenser to the boiler; and a blower to blow the air into the boiler; wherein the air is blown by the blower into the spaces between the boiler conduits in the boiler to supply heat to boil and superheat the working fluid in the boiler conduits as the air is cooled, and the superheated working fluid vapor flows through the turbine to produce mechanical power, and the working fluid vapor flows to the condenser, and the air, after flowing through the boiler, flows through the counter-flow heat exchanger to be cooled further, and then the air flows into the channels between the condenser conduits to be cooled further as it causes the evaporation of the water from the water films that flow down the outside of the condenser conduits, and the evaporation of the water from the thin water films cools and condenses the working fluid within the condenser conduits, and the further cooled air thereafter flows back to the counter-flow heat exchanger to cool the air flowing from the boiler, and then the air directed from the condenser through the counter-flow heat exchanger is exhausted, and the working fluid liquid is pumped back to the boiler.