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Larry

Richard Kollmann wrote in news:2372021d-
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I am interested in your comments.

Does anyone but me remember Rovax, or some name like that.....??

I read an old Popular Science where Chrysler put 6 fat engineers in a big
Plymouth Sedan with Rovax gas-free, compressed air AC unit in the Mohave
Desert at 124F and with 6 sweaty bodies in lab coats with pocket
protectors stuffed up got it down to 57F in the Plymouth in no time. The
outlet air was near ZERO F!

Of course, then the gas manufacturers got it buried because it used JUST
AIR, sucking air out of the cabin through a muffler to eliminate the
rotary high-volume compressor intake noise, pumping it all the way up to
30-35 PSI and running that HOT AIR from the compression through a
standard-looking oil cooler radiator, then RELEASING the air through the
OTHER SIDE of the rotary compressor, recovering a lot of the energy it
took to compress it.

What came out was frozen air and solid ice crystals. Anaconda made a
metal heat exchanger/ice filter that used this ice to cool the intake
air, making it even more efficient and melting the troublesome ice, and
re-humidifying the released air.

This system was supposed to be the holy grail of the MEAT industry, too,
because the melted water was put BACK into the refridgerated outlet air
so it WOULDN'T DRY OUT THE MEAT in the cooler.....

.......then, as with most inventions that kick some corporation's ass (Dow
Chemical)....it was bought and BURIED....

Feel the air coming out of a tire when you unscrew the valve stem out of
it....COLD.

No exotic gasses....no high compression pumps....no high pressure
lines....30 psi! And, if it leaked....so what? It also had a tire valve
outlet on the cool side of the heat exchanger so you could blow up your
tires with compressed air anywhere!

......then they buried it.....never to be heard from again......

Damn them.....all.