Patent ID: 8474264

Claim:
An apparatus for generating electricity from wet exhaust steam, comprising: opposed coaxial disks counter-rotatable about a common axis of rotation and spaced apart so as to define a radial workspace between them, the disks comprising radial runners configured such that the runners are impinged by the expanding wet exhaust steam and thereby cause the disks to counter-rotate; an axial feed port at the center of one of the opposed coaxial disks, the axial feed port structured to communicate with the radial workspace to introduce wet steam into the radial workspace; an axial exhaust port at the center of the opposite one of the opposed coaxial disks, the axial exhaust port structured to communicate with means for condensing steam axially extracted out of the radial workspace; a baffle disposed between the axial feed port and the axial exhaust port; and a dynamo connected to a drive wheel, the drive wheel disposed at the periphery of the opposed coaxial disks and in contact with at least one of the opposed coaxial disks during counter-rotation of the opposed coaxial disks.