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The Caprotti distribution

The Caprotti distribution is a distribution system, with distinct valves for the introduction and exhaust, of the steam produced by the boiler of a steam locomotive to the cylinders of its engine[1] invented by 'Italian engineer Arturo Caprotti.


The innovation consisted in replacing the old and complicated system with a device, conceptually borrowed from the distribution applied to thermal engines, which by opening valves, controlled by cams. It introduced the steam with very precise and perfectly variable regulation within a large radius [2] avoiding the main problem that caused the low performance of the steam machines, the so -called steam lamination.
The Caprotti system required a greater constructive precision of the systems Traditional but on the other hand he allowed great advantages:

  • simplified the biellism of the locomotives reducing their weight and inertial forces triggered by the various elements In motion.
  • improved the performance of the locomotive by virtue of the precise regulation of the quantity of steam according to the need.
  • consequently reduced the consumption of coal and increased the effective power of the locomotive. Europe and the United States. Find many applications also in the naval field, but its success was short because the steam engine falling in disuse, the use of the system is also laid down.

energy production with Brayton cycle

Le macchine funzionanti secondo il ciclo Brayton, risalgono agli albori della rivoluzione industriale e, per molti aspetti, introdussero innovazioni che sarebbero pi servite da spunto per lo svilupp0 dei motori a combustione interna a ciclo Otto e a ciclo Diesel, che ancora oggi utilizziamo.761 / 5.000The machines functioning according to the Brayton cycle, date back to the dawn of the industrial revolution and, in many respects, introduced innovations that would be more served as a starting point for the development of eight -cycle internal combustion engines and diesel cycle, which we still use today. The Brayton cycle engines that used piston kinemakers were quickly supplanted by eight and diesel cycle engines, but the idea that had inspired them survived and fully built in the gas turbines.
the systems for the production of Small scale energy, they can take advantage of the tatches available to create working machines with Brayton cycle, useful for the exploitation of small sources of thermal energy, deriving from fossil sources.

motus

Motus is a collection of procedures that can be used within a Delphi program, which allows you to study floors kinematic systems. Motus uses the Mekin2d library, which is a library born for old versions of Pascal. On the contrary, Motus, it is compilated to an environment of the Delphi. From Mekin2D he inherits part of the calculation procedures, while all the graphic procedures have been rewritten from scratch. I also added the management of motion laws and the calculation of the flat cams.