Power plants – System having plural motors or having diverse types of...
Patent
1979-10-30
1981-05-12
Ostrager, Allen M.
Power plants
System having plural motors or having diverse types of...
60398, 60497, F03B 1312, F03D 900
Patent
active
042664039
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method of harnessing combined wind and wave energy for generating, e.g., electrical power which includes a first housing held at a fixed height above the bottom of a body of water and having an internal cavity, and a buoyant second housing having an internal cavity surrounded by sleeves into which the walls of the internal cavity of the first housing are slidably contained for allowing relative movement between the first and second housings in response to wave action, with the first body containing a plurality of funnel-like openings for receiving air driven by the wind and directing it through at least one set of turbine blades, and also with the internal cavity of the second housing having a flapper valve which is normally open to the fluid communication between the internal cavities when the wave action moves the second housing upwardly from the first housing, and which closes in response to the downward movement of the second housing with respect to the first housing as the wave passes by, thereby pumping air trapped in the internal cavity across the blade of a second set of turbines, with the discharge of this second set of turbines supplying air to assist in turning the first set of turbines.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4098081 (1978-07-01), Woodman
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