AVE Publications
International Conference on Solar Updraft Tower Power Technology SUTPT2012
Huazhong University, Wuhan, China, October 27, 2012
Description of the proposed proposed Atmospheric Vortex Engine (AVE) process, its thermodynamic basis, the progress made to date and the current development plan.
Presentation entitled "Energy from Convective Vortices" - Presented by Brian Monrad
Paper entitled "Energy from Convective Vortices" - Written by Louis Michaud and Brian Monrad and published in SUTPT2012 transactions
Supporting presentation by Mr. Donald Cooper, MIE Australia
Hurricane Sea to Air Heat Transfer
Presentation made at the American Meteorological Society 18th Air Sea Interaction Conference, July 2012
Hurricane cooling is usually attributed to upwelling and mixing of cold water from below. The presentation proposes the opposite hypothesis, namely that: “Hurricane sea cooling is almost entirely due to heat removal from above and not to cold water from below”.
Hurricane Sea to Air Heat Transfer - Presentation Abstract - PDF (20 KB)
Hurricane Sea to Air heat Transfer - Presentation Slides - PDF (600 KB)
Hurricane Sea to Air Heat Transfer - Manuscript - PDF (1300 KB)
Link to American Meteorological Society conference web site
Link to American Meteorological Society Conference recorded oral presentation
Revisions to Spray Production and Deposition Areas
The original 18th Air Sea Interaction conference presentation suggested that spray is produced mainly under the eyewall of the right rear quadrant and then deposited to the right of the hurricane track. This revised theory suggests that the spray is produced along the hurricane track and carried by the wind to the right of the hurricane track. See link to figures showing the revised and original spray production and deposition areas. The revised theory is based on the surface and subsurface sea temperature measurements in paper: Cold Wake of Hurricane
Reference for D"Asaro et al. 2007 paper:
D’Asaro EA, Sanford TB, Niiler PP, Terrill EJ (2007) Cold wake of hurricane
Link to Rational for the theory revision
Link to revised spray production and deposition areas figures
Link to paper: Cold Wake of Hurricane Frances
Link to auxiliary material for paper: Cold Wake of Hurricane Frances
On Hurricane Intensity
Reference:
Michaud, L. M. 2012: On Hurricane Energy. Meteorol. Atmos. Phys
Abstract
Warm sea water is the energy source for hurricanes. Interfacial sea‑to‑air heat transfer without spray ranges from 100 W m-2 in light wind to 1000 W m-2 in hurricane force wind. Spray can increase sea‑to‑air heat transfer by 2 orders of magnitude and result in heat transfers of up to 100,000 W m-2. Drops of spray falling back in the sea can be 2 to 4 °C colder than the drops leaving the sea thus transferring a large quantity of heat from sea to air. The heat of evaporation is taken from the sensible heat of the remainder of the drop; evaporating approximately 0.3% of a drop is sufficient to reduce its temperature to the wet bulb temperature of the air. The heat required to evaporate hurricane precipitation is roughly equal to the heat removed from the sea indicating that sea cooling is due to heat removal from above and not to the mixing of cold water from below. The paper shows how case studies of ideal thermodynamics processes can help explain hurricane intensity.
Springer Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics web site where the article "ON HURRICANE ENERGY" is available for a feeAuthor's version of accepted manuscript: ON HURRICANE ENERGY available free
Harnessing Energy From Convective Vortices
Pre-publication manuscript submitted for peer reviewed publication IEEE Power Energy System Magazine / sustainability Transaction in September 2011.The paper describes the atmospheric vortex
engine process, its thermodynamics basis and its potential.
Harnessing Energy from Convective Vortices - Complete text with figures and table - PDF (7900 KB)
Harnessing Energy from Convective Vortices - Complete text without figures or table - PDF (70 KB)
Figures 1 to 9 - PDF (7700 KB)
Table 1 - PDF (20 KB)
Mechanical Engineering Magazine
Mechanical Engineering Magazine, April, 2011, The Sky's the
Limit
Link
to "The sky's the Limit" at Mechanical Engineering Magazine
POWER Magazine
Power Magazine, March 1, 2010, Harnessing Energy from Upward
Heat
Convection
Link
to "Harnessing Upward Heat Convection" at Power Magazine
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Energy Manager Magazine
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Energy Manager Magazine, October-December, 2009, Vol 2, No 4,
ISSN 0974-0996, published by Energy Press, Ernakulam, India
"A quarterly magazine of the society of energy engineers and managers /
India" (www.energyprofessional.in)
Atmospheric
Vortex Engine - published in Energy Manager - PDF (848 KB)
IEEE - Science and Technology for Humanity
"The Atmospheric Vortex Engine", Presented at IEEE TIC-STH
Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity
September 26-27, 2009 at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Draft
of peer reviewed paper 1569197181 to be published
in TIC-STH conference proceedings - PDF (88 KB)
TIC-STH
Presentation Slides - PDF (4.9 MB)
TIC-STH
Presentation Notes - PDF (41 KB)
New Unpublished Manuscript - Hurricane Isabel Intensity
Recent dropsonde observations in hurricane Isabel provided
unprecedented high quality data on eyewall: air temperature, relative
humidity and sea surface temperature. This January 2007 manuscript
shows that eyewall temperature and humidity can be used to calculate
minimum eyewall pressure and maximum wind speed.
Hurricane
isabel Intensity -
Complete Paper - PDF (160 KB)
Table
1 - PDF - (74 KB)
Figure
1 - JPG (61KB)
Figure
2 - JPG (61KB)
Printout
of MATHCAD
calculation results for case 4 - PDF (117 KB)
Technical Meeting Presentations
Unrestrained Expansion - A Source of Entropy,
American Geophysical Union Fall 2005 Meeting -
Non-Equilibrium
Thermodynamics - Poster Session
Unrestrained
Expansion - A Source of Entropy - Complete Paper - PDF (143 KB)
Unrestrained
Expansion - AGU Poster Presentation - Powerpoint PPT (647 KB)
References
for "Unrestrained
Expansion - A Source of Entropy"
Background
Material for "Unrestrained
Expansion - A Source of Entropy"
"The Atmospheric
Vortex Engine" - A
presentation prepared for the Wayne State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Winter 2008 Nuclear Physics
Seminar, at the invitation of Professor Giovanni Bonvicini, and
presented on January 18, 2008
The Atmospheric
Vortex
Engine - WSU Presentation Slides - PDF (6.3 MB)
Thermodynamic
Presentation- PDF
(6.4 MB)
Thermodynamic
Presentation Notes - PDF (85 kB)
The Atmospheric
Vortex Engine Concept. Presentation by Don Cooper for
Engineers Australia, West Perth, Australia, April 22, 2009
Engineers
Australia - The Atmospheric Vortex Engine Concept by Don
Cooper - Presentation Announcement - PDF (151 KB)
Link
to full copy of presentation on Engineers Australia website
Peer Reviewed Publications
The proposal has been described and explained in the following reviewed publications. Links to Web versions of the articles are provided where available. The copyright to these publication belong to the publishers. Single copies of the articles can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal research and study.
(1) Proposal for the use of a controlled
tornado-like vortex to capture the mechanical energy produced in the
atmosphere from solar energy. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.,
Michaud, L.M., Vol. 56, Pg. 530-534, 1975.
Complete Article - PDF (544 KB)
(2) On the energy and control of atmospheric
vortices. J. Rech. Atmos., Michaud, L.M., Vol. 11, Pg.
99-120, 1977.
Complete Article - PDF (20.6 MB)
(3) Heat to work conversion during upward heat
convection. Part I: Carnot engine method.
Reprinted from: Atmospheric Research, Michaud, L.M., Vol. 39, Pg.
157-178, 1995, with permission from Elsevier Science.
© Copyright: Elsevier
Science Ltd.
Link
to abstract
Complete
Article - PDF (1.1 MB)
(4a) Comment
on "Convective potential energy in the environment of oceanic and
continental clouds., J. Atmos. Sci., Michaud, L.M.,
Vol.53,
pg. 1209-1211, 1996.
Copy
of comment
- PDF (231 KB)
(4b) Reply to Comment on "Convective potential
energy in the environment of
oceanic and continental clouds., J. Atmos. Sci.,
Lucas, C.,
and Zipser, E., Vol.53,
pg. 1212-1214, 1996.
Copy of
reply to comment - PDF (219 KB)
(5) Heat to work conversion during upward heat
convection.Part II: Internally generated entropy method.
Reprinted from: Atmospheric Research, Michaud, L.M., Vol. 41,
Pg.
93-108, 1996, with permission from Elsevier Science.
© Copyright: Elsevier
Science Ltd.
Link
to abstract
Complete
Article - PDF (709 KB)
(6) Entrainment and detrainment required to
explain updraft properties and work dissipation.
Reprinted from: Tellus A., Michaud, L.M., Vol. 50A, Pg. 283-301, 1998,
with permission from Munksgaard publications.
Full text PDF from Tellus web site
Full
text
scanned PDF from vortexengine.ca
(30.9
MB)
Mathcad
Calculations
(7) Vortex process for capturing mechanical
energy during upward heat-convection in the atmosphere.
Reprinted from: Applied Energy, Author: Michaud, L.M., Vol. 62(4), Pg.
241-251, March, 1999, with permission from Elsevier Science.
© Copyright: Elsevier
Science Ltd
HTML
version of article with
additional table and links
Complete
Copy of article - PDF (200 KB)
Table
1: Summary of
article calculations
Mathcad
5.0 Program used to generate Table 1
(8) Thermodynamic cycle of the atmospheric
upward heat convection process.
Reprinted from:Meteor. Atmos. Phys., Michaud, L.M., Vol. 72, Pg. 29-46,
2000, with permission from Springer-Verlag.
Full text
PDF from dvgu.ru
Full text
PDF from vortexengine.ca
Thermodynamic
Figures - Powerpoint PPT (122 KB)
(9) Total energy equation method for
calculating hurricane intensity. Added to site Nov.
2001.
Reprinted from:Meteor. Atmos. Phys., Michaud, L.M., Vol. 78, Pg. 35-43,
2001, with permission from Springer-Verlag.
Full
text
from dvgu.ru
Full
text PDF from vortex engine.ca
Unpublished Papers
(1) Note on: The energy deficit of 20 to
30 W/m2observed
in climate models.
Manuscript
with figures - web format
(2) Subsidence required to replace
radiative
heat
loss with work of compression.
Manuscript
with figures - PDF (147 KB)
Manuscript
Figures - PDF (73 KB)
Web Publications
(1) Energy Central White Paper Website
("Global Power Industry News"),
Report posted: 9 December 2004
Link
to Atmospheric
Vortex Engine paper on Energy Central
(2) Energy Bulletin Website ("A
clearinghouse for current
information
regarding the peak in global energy supply")
A
Proposal for a new Renewable Energy Source: The Atmospheric Vortex
Engine, "A brief comprehensive description of the Atmospheric Vortex
Engine
written by Eric Michaud and Louis Michaud", Paper posted: 15
April 2005
Link to the
article on Energy Bulletin
Link to Windtech article leader on web
Link to Windtech International website
(4)
The Potential of
the Atmospheric Convection Engine -- Capturing Energy
in the Atmosphere,
EnergyPulse ("EnergyPulse is the global forum for power
industry professionals"),
January 26, 2006
Link to EnergyPulse article
Software
(1) HP48SX Software Programs for
Atmospheric
Thermodynamic Calculations
Link
to HP48SX software page
(2) Mathcad Thermodynamic Calculations
Link
to Mathcad files
Miscellaneous Other Information
(1) Presentation on
Atmospheric Work Production and Dissipation
Work
Production and Dissipation Presentation - PDF (340 KB)
(2) Willis Island Sounding
Data
Willis
Island
Sounding Figures - Powerpoint PPS (458 KB)
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