Peter Gluck have found this patent by Curtis Del Brown applied by Brown Cravens Taylor
https://www.google.com/patents/WO2016022967A1?cl=en&hl=en
Brown Cravens Taylor is the assignee of one patent by Dennis Cravens and they seems thus related (family? to investigate! )
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130276770?dq=inassignee:%22Brown+Cravens+Taylor%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSqpj8g4rNAhUlOJoKHWrSCukQ6AEINDAD
It seems to be a reactor design, allowing control and safety. Some claims used thermoelectric generator for powering, magnetic field fro control. Some talk of fuel and "dopant" as hydrogen and Ni/Pt/Pd.
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[0007] The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods in which a heat engine utilizes a controllable heat source that consumes a hydrogen or hydrogen isotope fuel to generate heat. In the context of this application heat engines are understood to include devices that transform heat into kinetic or electrical energy.
[0008] One embodiment of the inventive concept is a heat engine that includes a main body that is permeable to a fuel species, where the main body includes a dopant that has an affinity for the fuel species, at least one controllable operating field source that generates an operating field which intersects the main body, and a controller that is configured to modulate the operating field. When the heat engine is in operation the main body generates heat, and modulation of the operating field provides control of the generation of heat by the main body. The operating field can be a magnetic field, and electrical field, or can incorporate both magnetic and electric fields. The heat engine can include a proton conductor that undergoes a change in a physical property (for example phase, physical dimension, proton conductivity) at a characteristic temperature, such that the change in the physical property renders the heat engine at least partially inoperable. Such a proton conductor can be identified within the heat engine without disassembly or destructive testing.
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Claims
1. A heat engine comprising;
a body that is permeable to a fuel species and comprising a dopant that has an affinity for the fuel species;
a field source that provides an operating field, wherein at least a portion of the operating field intersects at least a portion of the body; and
a field source controller that is operably connected to the field source and configured to modulate the operating field,
wherein modulation of the operating field modulates heat generated within or on the body.
2. The heat engine of claim 1, wherein the modulation is selected from among the group consisting of intensity, polarity, duration, periodicity, and waveform.
3. The heat engine of claim 1 or 2, wherein the operating field is a magnetic field.
4. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the body is in thermal communication with a working fluid.
5. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a thermoelectric device.
6. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the dopant is selected from among the group consisting of nickel, platinum, and palladium.
7. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the fuel species is a hydrogen isotope.
8. The heat engine of claim 3, wherein the magnetic field intensity ranges from the ambient intensity of the earth's magnetic field to 10,000 gauss.
9. The heat engine of claim 3, wherein the magnetic field is supplied by a field source that comprises a permanent magnet.
10. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the heat engine is configured to not generate heat when the temperature of the body falls below a first temperature.
11. The heat engine of claim 10, wherein the first temperature is at least 300° C.
12. The heat engine of one of claims 1 to 11, further comprising an activatable safety feature.
13. The heat engine of claim 12, wherein the activatable safety feature undergoes a change in a physical property above a second temperature, the physical property including at least one of the group consisting of phase, physical dimension, and conductivity, such that the change in the physical property renders the heat engine at least partially inoperable.
14. The heat engine of claim 12 or claim 13, wherein the activatable safety feature is detectable within the heat engine without the use of invasive or destructive techniques.
15. The heat engine of one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the activatable safety feature is configured to release a compound that combines with the fuel species to generate a non-fuel species that does not support the generation of heat when the temperature of the body exceeds a second temperature.
16. The heat engine of one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the activatable safety feature is configured to release a compound that reduces the formation of complexes between the fuel species and the dopant when the temperature of the body exceeds a second temperature.
