Prime-mover dynamo plants – Fluid-current motors
Patent
1980-08-27
1982-06-15
Miller, J. D.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Fluid-current motors
415 7, F03B 1310
Patent
active
043353193
ABSTRACT:
A hydro-electric power apparatus including an electrical generator is mounted in a combination power house and crew housing disposed at or above the surface of a current of ocean or other water current and a hydraulic turbine for driving the electrical generator is suspended into the water from a supporting platform on which the power house and crew housing are mounted. The power house and crew housing and the supporting platform are anchored to the floor of the ocean or like body of water without the use of walls, ramps or the like. The supporting platform provides a helipad landing for a helicopter transporting food and supplies for the maintenance crew and repair and replacement parts for the electrical generator and other parts of the apparatus. A water inlet or intake nozzle is suspended from the supporting platform to direct a maximum hydraulic force of the ocean or other water current in the area into the hydraulic turbine. A fluid pressure responsive water direction and velocity control device is provided in association with the water inlet or intake nozzle for sensing the direction of flow of the water current in the area so as to direct the water current having the highest available fluid velocity into the water inlet or intake nozzle and then into the hydraulic turbine. Power transmission cable means are provided for transmitting the electrical energy developed by the turbine-driven electrical generator to on-shore positions of use. All of the components of the apparatus, other than the hydraulic turbine and the water inlet or intake nozzle, and parts of the water current direction flow and velocity sensing device are located in the power house and hence are not submerged in the salt or other water and hence are not subject to the corrosive and other adverse effects of submergence in salt or other water.
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Cannon Charles B.
Cannon Charles B.
Miller J. D.
Rebsch D. L.
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