Magnetic gas engine and method of extracting work

Abstract

The present subject matter overcomes the deficiencies in the prior art by introducing or generating charged particles in an air stream and manipulating the air stream with magnetic fields operating on the charged particles. Embodiments of the present subject mater compress the air stream by accelerating charged particles with a moving magnetic field, where the magnetic field has a velocity perpendicular to its flux lines. The increased velocity of the charged particles increases the statistical mean particle velocity and thereby increases the pressure in the air stream. The compressed air stream is then heated and expanded through a second magnetic field. The expansion of the air stream substantially increases the velocity of the air stream and the charged particles therein. The interaction of the high velocity charged particles and the magnetic field imparts a force perpendicular to the flux lines, this force powers the movement of the magnetic field.

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         9 . A jet engine for providing thrust across the subsonic to supersonic regimes comprising: a duct having an inlet and an exit; a magnetic field device for providing a rotating magnetic field about an axis, said magnetic field defined by a first set of magnetic flux lines proximate to said inlet and a second set of magnetic flux lines proximate to the exit; a combustion chamber within said duct and between said inlet and said exist; wherein an ionized gas stream having a net charge enters said duct via said inlet through the first set of magnetic flux lines, passes into the combustion chamber and exits said duct through the second set of magnetic flux lines and said exit; further comprising an ionized gas generator, wherein said generator is turned off above a predetermined Mach no. 
     
     
         10 . A jet engine for providing thrust across the subsonic to supersonic regimes comprising: a duct having an inlet and an exit; a magnetic field device for providing a rotating magnetic field about an axis, said magnetic field defined by a first set of magnetic flux lines proximate to said inlet and a second set of magnetic flux lines proximate to the exit; a combustion chamber within said duct and between said inlet and said exist; wherein an ionized gas stream having a net charge enters said duct via said inlet through the first set of magnetic flux lines, passes into the combustion chamber and exits said duct through the second set of magnetic flux lines and said exit; further comprising a charge separator, said charge separator directing gas with a net charge into the duct by separating part of the ionized gas into positive and negative charged gas ion, wherein said separator is turned off above a predetermined Mach no. 
     
     
         11 . The jet engine according to  claim 9 , wherein said first set of magnetic flux lines having a radial component in one direction normal to the axis proximate to said inlet; and the second set of magnetic flux lines having a radial component anti-parallel to said first set of magnetic flux lines proximate to the exit. 
     
     
         12 . The jet engine according to  claim 9 , wherein the rotation of said first set of magnetic flux lines about said axis is coupled to the rotation of said second set of magnetic flux lines about said axis. 
     
     
         13 . The jet engine of  claim 9 , wherein said first set of magnetic flux lines of the rotating magnetic field devices has a velocity substantially normal to the ionized gas stream.