Prime-mover dynamo plants – Electric control – Tide and wave motors
Patent
1978-08-17
1980-02-19
Dobeck, B.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Electric control
Tide and wave motors
290 52, 290 53, 60641, F03G 704
Patent
active
041896475
ABSTRACT:
An improved open cycle ocean thermal energy conversion system including a flash evaporator for vaporizing relatively warm ocean surface water and an axial flow, elastic fluid turbine having a vertical shaft and axis of rotation. The warm ocean water is transmitted to the evaporator through a first prestressed concrete skirt-conduit structure circumferentially situated about the axis of rotation. The unflashed warm ocean water exits the evaporator through a second prestressed concrete skirt-conduit structure located circumferentially about and radially within the first skirt-conduit structure. The radially inner surface of the second skirt conduit structure constitutes a cylinder which functions as the turbine's outer casing and obviates the need for a conventional outer housing. The turbine includes a radially enlarged disc element attached to the shaft for supporting at least one axial row of radially directed blades through which the steam is expanded. A prestressed concrete inner casing structure of the turbine has upstream and downstream portions respectively situated upstream and downstream from the disc element. The radially outer surfaces of the inner casing portions and radially outer periphery of the axially interposed disc cooperatively form a downwardly radially inwardly tapered surface. An annular steam flowpath of increasing flow area in the downward axial direction is radially bounded by the inner and outer prestressed concrete casing structures. The inner casing portions each include a transversely situated prestressed concrete circular wall for rotatably supporting the turbine shaft and associated structure. The turbine blades are substantially radially coextensive with the steam flowpath and receive steam from the evaporator through an annular array of prestressed concrete stationary vanes which extend between the inner and outer casings to provide structural support therefor and impart a desired flow direction to the steam.
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patent: 4062189 (1977-12-01), Mager
patent: 4087975 (1978-05-01), Owens
patent: 4142108 (1979-02-01), Matthews
Bulletin de l'Institute Oceangraphique No. 906, "Study of Possibility of the Utilization of Thermal Energy of the Sea and Solar Energy", Andrew Nizery, Dec. 30, 1946.
Dobeck B.
Keen J. W.
The United States of America as represented by the United States
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