A powerplant is provided for an aircraft. This powerplant includes an engine and an energy recovery system. The engine includes an engine combustor, an engine turbine, a flowpath and a fluid delivery system. The flowpath extends out of the engine combustor and through the engine turbine. The fluid delivery system is configured to provide fluid hydrogen and fluid oxygen for combustion within the engine combustor to produce combustion products within the flowpath. The energy recovery system includes an energy recovery system condenser, an energy recovery system pump, an energy recovery system evaporator and an energy recovery system turbine. The energy recovery system pump is configured to pump liquid water from the energy recovery system condenser to the energy recovery system evaporator. The energy recovery system evaporator is configured to transfer heat from the combustion products into the liquid water to evaporate at least some of the liquid water into water vapor to drive the energy recovery system turbine.
HYDROGEN-OXYGEN FUELED POWERPLANT WITH WATER AND HEAT RECOVERY
2023-08-17
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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