{"id":1152,"date":"2019-01-14T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2019-01-15T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T09:14:15","slug":"reasons-why-modern-steam-engines-makes-sense-as-a-future-drive-train-in-future-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Reasons why modern steam engines make sense as a future drive train in future vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>by<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Peter Platell<\/em><br \/>\n<em>PhD, CTO, RANOTOR AB<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/Reasons why modern steam engines make sense as a future drive train in future vehicles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/Reasons why modern steam engines make sense as a future drive train in future vehicles.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RANOTOR is founded by the former project leader of SAAB steam engine project during the 70\u2019s. The last years RANOTOR has carried out project together with automotive industry for WHR (Waste Heat Recovery) and Royal Technology University of Stockholm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are several reasons why it should be well founded to claim that <u>modern <\/u>steam engine has a huge potential to offer attractive drivetrains for future vehicles.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Superior primary energy source flexibility (solar, electricity , biofuel )<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can form hybrids with ICE, Electric propulsion and fuel cells<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Low tail pipe emissions when burning a fuel.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Possibility to harness intermittent renewable with a thermal battery<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regenerative engine braking<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">High part load efficiency (high average energy efficiency)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Low cost (no exotic expensive material and low mass of material normalized to power)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attractive torque characteristic ( high low end torque, elastic torque = increased torque when lowering shaft speed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/Reasons why modern steam engines make sense as a future drive train in future vehicles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole article<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/files\/Reasons why modern steam engines make sense as a future drive train in future vehicles.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download the ZIP file<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Peter Platell PhD, CTO, RANOTOR AB<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article Download the ZIP file .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RANOTOR is founded by the former project leader of SAAB steam engine project during the 70\u2019s. The last years RANOTOR has carried out project together with automotive industry for WHR (Waste Heat Recovery) and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}