Power plants – Motor having a buoyant working member
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-01
2001-05-01
Nguyen, Hoang (Department: 3748)
Power plants
Motor having a buoyant working member
C060S641600, C060S651000, C060S671000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06223532
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND
This invention uses the flexible or stretchable chambers for energy conversion and storage, conventional turbines, buoyancy power, refrigeration and absorption of applicant's former patent (AFP) 5 685 147 (1997) and pending divisional patent application.
This invention relates to transduction of different manifestations of energy resembling the natural cycle of water, particularly using at least one artifact for transducing the buoyancy of a working generative fluid (Gfluid) rising within a heavier fluid, and the power of falling Gfluid in liquid state.
Thermal differentials and gravity are important activators of fluid or flow generators which activate or assist activation of the Gfluid in at least one passageway riffled by turbines for converting the different manifestations of energy into rotative energy, electric energy and energy as hydrogen/oxygen. The Gfluid can be controlled in gaseous state as to produce “heads” of gaseous conventional pressure.
More particularly, the system essentially relates to the combination of: generative injection of Gfluid into an upwardly impelling liquid
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by a sub-aqueous rotative propulsion turbine (RPT)
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, transduction of buoyancy by flotation turbines or duct-floturbines
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(page 12), to transduction of conventional pressure though conventional turbines for gaseous fluid in contact with a liquid or gas/vapor turbines (GV-Turbines), to transduction of gravitation on the Gfluid in liquid state falling through and using a hydro-turbine
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′ and to generative production of hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, using also sub-aqueous turbines and conventional GV-Turbines. Definitions are positioned just after the summery.
PRIOR ART
With no doubt, nowadays it is widely recognized that usable, cheap, green energy is a great necessity. Most traditional methods for producing usable energy still have to be environmentally safe, including traditional hydro-power which floods vast lands by using dams. Known methods of energy generation can be enhanced or partially substituted at least by the use of sub-aqueous rotative propulsion and buoyancy transduced by relatively cheap and simple sub-aqueous turbines, This is possible in part since the harnessing of sub-aqueous powers do not harm the conventional pressure that spins conventional gas/vapor turbines.
Related inventions as U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,498,294 to Everett (1985) and 4,028,893 to Shaw (1977), closer to this invention, with no practical result have tried to harness conveniently buoyancy through the liquid. In general, the prior art buoyancy transducers are limited by their design and would spend more energy than the energy produced. Everett's and Shaw's are the patents more similar to applicant's disclosure; but at least their way of Gfluid injection, their buckets shape or design and their thermal manipulation make their systems uncompetitive.
Modern turbo-compressors as Adapted Turbo-Jet (ATJEs) generate usable energy utilizing an immediate first turbine for its exhaust and another combined turbine rotated by the expanded Gfluid generated by the high heat of the exhaust. Nevertheless, neither the heat of the finally discarded exhaust gases nor the heat of the exhaust steam is harnessed by floturbines. In conventional transduction, the fall of liquefied water vapor is not being transduced by a hydro-turbine.
OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES OF APPLICANT'S INVENTION
Applicant's invention in turn, overcomes above pitfalls, broads the use of train-turbines and couples sub-aqueous manifestations of energy with conventional gas pressure of conventional thermal-energy plants.
Accordingly, several objects and advantages of applicant's invention are:
To provide a combination of cycles and apparatuses of cooperative performance to cleanly and competitively generate usable energy.
To create a current of power which can be transduced at several points such that an energy transducing riffle is formed to take advantage of different manifestations of energy along the current, of heat transference or at least of sub-aqueous manifestations of energy.
To include generative injection of Gfluid into a liquid using a sub-aqueous rotative propulsion turbine.
To include productive return of Gfluid to complete at least one cycle, either as generative condensation and/or as generative fall of liquefied Gfluid.
To increase the efficiency of the system by generative production and storage of energy as hydrogen and oxygen (produced by electrolysis) buoying within liquid and preferably stored under hydrostatic pressurization in flexible chambers.
To transduce buoyancy power of hydrogen and oxygen or any other gases in several cycles in cascade, equivalent of one long deep passageway, of course the first chamber having the highest pressure.
To transduce the pressure from hydrostatic-storage at least by means of floturbines.
To increase the efficiency of the system by utilizing its hydrogen to produce more usable energy.
To transduce buoyancy and also the flow of liquid in falls and currents with about the same turbine structure.
To refrigerate what ever decided in the process of generating energy.
To provide a different way of using Adapted Turbo-Jet Engines (ATJE) for energy conversion since at least some of the ATJEs, coupled to conventional turbines have been experiencing “cracking of the thermal barrier coatings . . . in the hot-gas path” (Power: July/August 1996 P. 5-6).
To provide a more simple floturbine, easier, and cheaper to build, small or big.
To utilize all generative ways from a passageway of energy.
To use as fuel the hydrogen produced such that adapted turbo-jet engines and all the turbines can be rotated for further transduction.
To offer an energy converting system having the possibility of using Gfluids (either considered a gas or a liquid), for transducing their motion power in liquid state and in gaseous state within a liquid.
To offer an energy riffle capable of using either turbines of closeable tube segments or the duct-floturbines shown in this application.
A system capable of substituting the Gfluid according to weather, temperature, law, etc.
To use sub-aqueous turbines capable of transducing the smallest temperature differentials.
To animate the research and development of buoyancy energy plants and in general green energy using sub-aqueous turbines.
Other objects and advantages will become apparent from the specification and drawings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4437308 (1984-03-01), Fischer
patent: 4478238 (1984-10-01), Maddox et al.
patent: 4779006 (1988-10-01), Wortham
patent: 4788824 (1988-12-01), Spurr et al.
patent: 5685147 (1997-11-01), Brassea
patent: 5899066 (1999-05-01), Brassea-Flores
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