Paul,

Has anyone ever tried and electric turbo-compound?  If the turbine drove a
DC generator and you had the DC motor driving the crankshaft, which could be
built into the flywheel, I think you might have a simpler and more efficient
system.  You would get rid of the gears, the fluid couplings and probably
the starter motor as well.  The new hybrid cars are using the flywheel
pieces already.  The DC generator could have individually controlled
windings so you could vary the load on the turbine at a given rpm.  You
could also run at higher voltage to reduce the weight of the system.  What
do you think?

Steve Brazil


Yes Caterpillar and John Deere were working on that but no production hardware
as far as I can find. What do you want to do with 37Kw of electrical power? Might
be useful for a UAV or hybrid. If the generator is 80% and the motor is 80%
the overall is 64%. Not good.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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