Supercritical fluids can also be used in the fundamental power systems in ships and other vehicles

 

Supercritical fluids can also be used in the fundamental power systems in ships and other vehicles

This might be the technology of tomorrow. Supercritical fluids can make fundamental engineering possible. If the ships are equipped with the vacuum steam boilers, what are rotating the supercritical water in the system, that thing would decrease the need for fuel of that kind of ships. So that thing can make it possible to make the economical turbines.

But the thing that would make this kind of system very interesting is that if the engineers would use the liquid gas in that kind of turbine system, there is possible to make the ship, which would not require the external fuel. The liquid fluid just flows in the closed cycle of the power systems, which can be extremely lightweight. And if the insulators would be good enough that thing can also be installed in the cars or some other moving things. 

The heating of the high-pressure CO² or high-pressure liquid nitrogen can be made by using the small resistors, which would increase the temperature of the liquid gas to its critical point, and then the critical fluid, which is formed by as an example liquid nitrogen would conduct to the turbines. And the supercritical fluid can also operate other types of steam engines. So those extremely cold gases can in theory used in the turbines, or piston steam engines, what are used in aircraft or drones, and that would increase the flight time. 

The thing that makes supercritical fluid so interesting is that the similar systems, that are used in the fixed power plants can be used in cars, ships and even aircraft. And as you might know, water is not the only supercritical fluid in the world. The other supercritical fluids like liquid gases have a critical point and that kind of thing means that also superfluid or liquid helium have a similar critical point with the water, but the temperature of that point is far lower than with the water or CO², what is the most commonly used superfluid in the world. 

So what can make this kind of superfluids what have an extremely low critical point very interesting? We could make the turbine-based power system, which doesn't need any other fuel than the normal natural temperatures, and that thing can make it possible to make the automobile, aircraft, or ship, which doesn't need external fuel. In theory, the system can make very high-pressure critical fluid, which can rotate the turbine even in the airplanes. The thing that that kind of system requires is the closed cycle of the liquid. 

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