CA2479862A1 - The solar magnification power generator - Google Patents
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F03G—SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F03G6/00—Devices for producing mechanical power from solar energy
- F03G6/06—Devices for producing mechanical power from solar energy with solar energy concentrating means
- F03G6/065—Devices for producing mechanical power from solar energy with solar energy concentrating means having a Rankine cycle
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S23/00—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors
- F24S23/30—Arrangements for concentrating solar-rays for solar heat collectors with lenses
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S30/00—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules
- F24S30/40—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules for rotary movement
- F24S30/42—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules for rotary movement with only one rotation axis
- F24S30/425—Horizontal axis
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F24—HEATING; RANGES; VENTILATING
- F24S—SOLAR HEAT COLLECTORS; SOLAR HEAT SYSTEMS
- F24S30/00—Arrangements for moving or orienting solar heat collector modules
- F24S2030/10—Special components
- F24S2030/14—Movement guiding means
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02B—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS
- Y02B10/00—Integration of renewable energy sources in buildings
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- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
- Y02E10/40—Solar thermal energy, e.g. solar towers
- Y02E10/46—Conversion of thermal power into mechanical power, e.g. Rankine, Stirling or solar thermal engines
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
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Abstract
The Solar Magnification Power Generator consists of a twenty foot wide magnifying glass mounted on a gantry which maintains a fixed focal area as it tracks the sun throughout the day and also in its seasonal migrations from sough to north and back. Receptors in the focal area harvest the heat to provide steam which is conducted to turbines for the generation of electricity
Description
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Apart from nuclear ener;g;T ~ the sun is t':~e u.ltimate source of all of the worldys enel_g,;~, b-.xt its only exploitat~_on for the direct production of elect--rici.ty are the solar panel a_nd a project near Seville in Spain involving f:-~cusszr,_g of the sure with- mirrors which is described as being ire ~_t=s is~fanc:y as a techno~_ogy. Sunlight foc-Y
ussed with a rnagnifying glass can :i_gnite paper_ , arzd the Solar Generator is based on expans_c;rl o.f that concept for another and major method of generating elect-7~ici-ty by solar poz~Jer.
Tn the description of the ir..vention nom~_nal meausrements are given which would be subject to irodification resulting from engin-eering analysis or trial_ proj ects , or requ=i.red to use the invention :i_n specific applications . It i s avident tfaat the larger the magni-fying glass the greater would be the power p-r_oduced, but for the pur-pose of this description- a diainetec of twenty feet and a focal len-gth of fifty feet is assumed.
the efficient operG-lion of the invent~.on reqwires that a stra-ight line beginning at t:he centre of the focal point of the magnify-ing glass and passing through ~..-ts : erstr_e would if produced go to the centre of the sun: but the problem is the apparent motion of the sun. Copernicus propounded and Galileo proved that the sun is sta-tionary and that its apparent motion is an illusion produced by the naily rotation of the earth. a.nd its seasonal changes in altitude are the result of the earth s annual orb3_t of the sun and the twenty-three degree tilt in its ax~_s . Buf f_o-r the purpose of this inven,.~m-tion, the focal zone where the power of the sun is harvested to gen-erate electricity must b a relatively stationary, and the sun despite Galileo must be dealt with as being in motion, and be tracked vy the magnifying glass.
Drawing number one is a top elevat ion of t;he magnifying glass and frame in which A is a twenty foot wide convex lens with a square base ~i wh7..Ch .~_S oT:W fOC)t: Vv:LL~E'_ c?.~: Lhe ni1_dd~.:; o-~ eaC.h SIC.e Cf Lll.e 1(ils ,'T~la t gL.a.SS vaStlng 1S E.::ii'l:ed~i;_':~ ;~r1 a. iqT:LarC. i_TcliPe T' wtl~_C:~1 7_S tlladE' O_~::
tW0 ~_nCfa tr7lC:'i~ Steel ~:~.rl~ ~S stla~)°G. In TJi:l.e :COYITl oJ_ ~. right arlgl a 'V71ti1 eac,~ side o:ne foot wic_c and t~T,~rewty-tteo fec.:t: ~_n length. At the top and bottom of f:came C aye p~o;ec~ ~..wg t:~irec~ inch. round rods D which r 7 are part oz the guidance sywtem -For vertical movement o_~ t:he magnify-ing glass.
Dra~~rings numbers ~:,ao a?zd three srnow side front, and top eleva-tions of the gantry, the moveable steel structure which supports t=he ragnifying glass a.nd. g~:~ides s_t in trackin~; the daily and seasona7_ move-mewts of th.e sun.. In both drawings the magnifying glass is in a middle position. Arch~:s E ~;ahich~ support the magnifying glass and.
its frame have slots ira. -their s~_des which accommodate rods D' ~~hose movements are facz.lita~.eci ~~y r--ng beaa:ings. Frame C has eyes F in its top, and cables to them are controlled by wiwches C~ on top of beam H, which joz_ns the to~>s of arche s E., and iri turn is supported by posts I 9 tahich are l:~aseci on steel. plate. a .
Drawing number tw;~7 also shows steel ;late J which is 3" thick a.nd 26 '' . square w,~hose foundation Jl allows z.t to turn to accommo-date the movements of t:he ~;antry. the central.. rotation point is dir-ectly under the focal area of the magnifying glass, at the base of the gantry, and cone I~ which is he princ~_pal feature of the focal area is subsequently descr:~.bed in detail.
Plate J is also joined by beams ~ to the bottoms of arches E
as shown in drawing number two, and arches E are joined across their bottoms by beam T~, shown ~_r~ drawing number three . At each end of beam uZ are blocks ~T rah ~_ch serve as the feet of the gantry, and they have roller bearings which allo~,a the gantiy to ride on track 0.
Vjinches P and 0 at eac~l enc~ of track 0 are attached by cable to blo-cks N, and move the gantry frorLi east to west during the day and return it to the east readv for the newt day at nightfall Both arches E a.nd track 0 form arcs zrhich are parts of two circles, each of whose centres are in the focal area of the magnif-ying glass so that despite its movements t.rac~:ing the sun its focal area is corLstant. Z:he lengths (or heights; of. the arcs would be determined by the latitude of the installation and the altitude of the sun on June 21st in the northern hemisphere and on December 21st ~z in t~~e southern hemi.sr:here. gt i_t_s max imum e_f..evation, a straight ~_-1_x1~ frCl~1 the :I:OCal C~:7i.~:x'e t c!SS:L:!7~ t~.'?rOUg~1 C:~:le CE'ntre O~: t~le iT!c~grllf-_ yv_r.~.g; glas s v7ould i.f ~r_ oduce:go to th.e cerut:r a of the stun. on the specified dates. The length of track 0 would ~e ceter_mixxed by the ~~ points of sunrise and svr~se~, on 'the same ciaites. , 'I'hae are twin sysi:ex~~ far tracking the sun., one for its daily passage from cast to ~~~est ; a.r;.d t:he other for_ i.i.s seasonal rnigrat~_ons from north to south. l~;ach consists of a tube which is 3°' wide and two feet long, with a_n electric eye in its base which is inset in the centre of the magnifying g~_ass at right a:r.igles to its surface.. When the suit shines down t-n.c-.>. tubs , a current from the electY-is eye goes to an electromagnet wh:i_ch draw up to it a metal strip. When the sun moves on and the eye passes. ~..ntc sha.doc~r, v:h.e cu-rreni~ is broken and a spring attached to the metal strip draws iv do~.,m to complete a circuit to the winch; s.
In tli~ case of t~~e so:°,~th and north movements of the sun, the circuit closed would be two, the first -to winches G which slowly lift magnifying glass A and its frame C (ox~ :loc,rer_ it, according to the season) to bring the eye back into the sunlight and turn off the winches o The second circuit would go to winches :.' a_nd , attached to=
cone K, which would adjust it to t:he new pos:ita_on of magnifying glass A.
In the case of the daily movements of the sung the circuit con-trolled by the second system would go to winch P, which again would move the gantry to the west and dl-aw the tube back into full sun which wou7_d. turn off t:~~.e cix: cuit until the next movement . At sunset , winch Q is activated to return the gantry to its starting point in the east have referred to the focal point of the magnifying glass but in view of its size it would be more accurate to refer to.a focal area. The tracking system maintains a constarf.t focal area, but it would be somehwat dz_ffz.zsed by the intervals between the corrections of the position of the magnifying glass by the tracking xno~hanism.
ylaximum efficienc~r of the system -requires that the .receptors which convert the sun's energy to steam should face the sun at°.a 90° angle. The tracking system keeps the receptors pointed in the direction of the sun and keep the magnifying glass at the prop er a Levation to focus tl:ne st~n on t:he focal area ~ :W thr receptors with-out : orrectx.om llLLght be re cei wing the sun " s fo;:usu:ed -rays at a 60° rather rt~an a °0° ~,.~.gle. there is a.-_l_sc~
t~~~.~ c~_:l:fusion. p-r_obl_em ref-erred to in the previous paragraph. Both. of these problems would be dealt with by the, use of cone F previously referred to and sho~,~ in drawing nuWber two a_nd now shown in gr~,~atc=~r ~.ietai.l in G-_ ;aids eleva-tion in drawing numbe-r four.
--_- It is a cone wi-ch ~_la.t sides rather tua-_~ t:eing roui:d in shape and instead of .being pcvimted i_ts bottom is ~~,. concave mirror which reflects sunlight reaching it back into the: c~ar~t_re of the cone. The line of its sides, if prf~jecved~ would reach po:i..nts two feet wider , than frame C, which alLoe~s for the periodic adjustm'~nts in the pos-ition of.magnifying glass A iay the tracking system, both with respect to the hcrizontal or daily movements of Lhe sun and. the magnifying glassy and th vertical or seasonal movements as well.
Cone K is attached at its low;~st edge to plate J by hinge R.
and its two top hori.zonta.l edges have s t.ee:I_ eyes S attached to them which allows cone K to be raised or lovpered as required by winches T
and U so that it can track the vertical position of magn>fying glass A. and so maintain the 90 ° angle at which t~v.e receptor_ s in. cone ~
re-.
ceive the sun's rays coming through the magnifying glass. The diff-usion effect previowsly refo.rred to would be dealt with by mirrors or polished metal pa.nel.s v in the sides of cone~~. to concentrate the -.- sun on the receptors. The movement of the cone would require flexib-ility in the plumbing for delivery of wate-r_ and the removal of the steam to the turbines.
So far . as the design of the receptors for harvesting the focus-sed heat of the sun for the generation of electricity is caneerned, they could be of different types.. One such device would be coils of thin-walled black pipes in ~.ahich water_ rising from below would be superheated qnd conducted a~,ray to steam turbines for the generation of of electricity.
An alternative device zaould be a chamber made of reinforced glass the shape of but twice the size of a. hot water tank into which water would be sprayed for di~tect conversion to steam which again would be conducted to tlxrbines for power generation..
There is the further possibility that:-.the cone itself could be CA 02479862 2004-08-25 . . . _ .
_~-the steam generatin~; rec~pto~ i,:ithy the top consvsting of plate glass o-r_ even a one-way miner with water being sprayed inside for the gen-eration of stearr~
A fourth possib:! a ~~scepto-r cot~_ld cons~_st o:E a large glass sphere v~it=h its rear coated with silver to form a rzirror, and above it a one-way miz-ror so that the focussed r ays of the' su.n would reflect and s forth through the sphere pith ~eate-r jets crea.s ing steam for the tur-bines .
The heat generated by the system would he greatest in the midd7_e of the day, and it is pc>ssible that the operators of an installation might wish to generate :Large amounts of power ~>oth. in the morning and ~~n late afternoon and have -' arge size magn~s_..fying glasses for that rea-son. It zs also possible that this m~_ght ~es,u~..t in midday heat lev-els which would overtax t'ne system. ~f_'111_s use of the system could.be a.ccorr~nodaved by instal:Ling on the flat bottom of the magnifying lens tc~To separate sheets of ~oolarized glass 9 wh.~_c~~ could be rotated as re-quired to allow either t=u~_1_ or reduced sunlight to pass through to the focal area .
Tt is possible that a super-sized power generation station based on this concept could be created with a marrz:f:ying lens one hundred -rest or more in diameter. assuming that l.t would not be possible to cast such a large lens :Ln one piece,=.it should nevertheless to manu-facture a composite lens with a number of ~~parate but coordinated segments with the same foca-1 point mounted ors a common frame which tracks the sun for the aene~it of all of th ern. The solution would be to have the frame for the lenses ~t:hemselves divided into segments each of which accommodates one segment of the composite lens, all using comparable in principle to a fly's eye. Perhaps there could bn multiple cons as ccTell., a It would also be possible to manufacture ;small units with a 5' lens which would serve to provide direct power during daytime and also charge batteries for nighttime use for ho~.zseholds or. buildings, similar in effect to solar panels CA 02479862 2004-08-25 . ., GLOSS~AaP,Y OF LETT:F:~RS USED 1N I~~RA~iINGS
TO DES:I:CNATE EI;EI~LEN'I'S OF '~_~iF LNVENTION
A.Lens E.Edge C.Frame D.Rods E.Arches F.Eyes.
G.Winches H.Z'on beam I.Posts J.Steel Plate iZ.Cone L.Beams from stee l plate J to bottoms of arches E
M.Beam connecting bottoms of arches E
N.Blocks under en ds of beam M
0.Track on which gantry travels for daytime tracking of sun P. Winch Q. Winch R. Hinges S. Eyes T. Winch U Wir~.ch .
V ~ iirrors .
Apart from nuclear ener;g;T ~ the sun is t':~e u.ltimate source of all of the worldys enel_g,;~, b-.xt its only exploitat~_on for the direct production of elect--rici.ty are the solar panel a_nd a project near Seville in Spain involving f:-~cusszr,_g of the sure with- mirrors which is described as being ire ~_t=s is~fanc:y as a techno~_ogy. Sunlight foc-Y
ussed with a rnagnifying glass can :i_gnite paper_ , arzd the Solar Generator is based on expans_c;rl o.f that concept for another and major method of generating elect-7~ici-ty by solar poz~Jer.
Tn the description of the ir..vention nom~_nal meausrements are given which would be subject to irodification resulting from engin-eering analysis or trial_ proj ects , or requ=i.red to use the invention :i_n specific applications . It i s avident tfaat the larger the magni-fying glass the greater would be the power p-r_oduced, but for the pur-pose of this description- a diainetec of twenty feet and a focal len-gth of fifty feet is assumed.
the efficient operG-lion of the invent~.on reqwires that a stra-ight line beginning at t:he centre of the focal point of the magnify-ing glass and passing through ~..-ts : erstr_e would if produced go to the centre of the sun: but the problem is the apparent motion of the sun. Copernicus propounded and Galileo proved that the sun is sta-tionary and that its apparent motion is an illusion produced by the naily rotation of the earth. a.nd its seasonal changes in altitude are the result of the earth s annual orb3_t of the sun and the twenty-three degree tilt in its ax~_s . Buf f_o-r the purpose of this inven,.~m-tion, the focal zone where the power of the sun is harvested to gen-erate electricity must b a relatively stationary, and the sun despite Galileo must be dealt with as being in motion, and be tracked vy the magnifying glass.
Drawing number one is a top elevat ion of t;he magnifying glass and frame in which A is a twenty foot wide convex lens with a square base ~i wh7..Ch .~_S oT:W fOC)t: Vv:LL~E'_ c?.~: Lhe ni1_dd~.:; o-~ eaC.h SIC.e Cf Lll.e 1(ils ,'T~la t gL.a.SS vaStlng 1S E.::ii'l:ed~i;_':~ ;~r1 a. iqT:LarC. i_TcliPe T' wtl~_C:~1 7_S tlladE' O_~::
tW0 ~_nCfa tr7lC:'i~ Steel ~:~.rl~ ~S stla~)°G. In TJi:l.e :COYITl oJ_ ~. right arlgl a 'V71ti1 eac,~ side o:ne foot wic_c and t~T,~rewty-tteo fec.:t: ~_n length. At the top and bottom of f:came C aye p~o;ec~ ~..wg t:~irec~ inch. round rods D which r 7 are part oz the guidance sywtem -For vertical movement o_~ t:he magnify-ing glass.
Dra~~rings numbers ~:,ao a?zd three srnow side front, and top eleva-tions of the gantry, the moveable steel structure which supports t=he ragnifying glass a.nd. g~:~ides s_t in trackin~; the daily and seasona7_ move-mewts of th.e sun.. In both drawings the magnifying glass is in a middle position. Arch~:s E ~;ahich~ support the magnifying glass and.
its frame have slots ira. -their s~_des which accommodate rods D' ~~hose movements are facz.lita~.eci ~~y r--ng beaa:ings. Frame C has eyes F in its top, and cables to them are controlled by wiwches C~ on top of beam H, which joz_ns the to~>s of arche s E., and iri turn is supported by posts I 9 tahich are l:~aseci on steel. plate. a .
Drawing number tw;~7 also shows steel ;late J which is 3" thick a.nd 26 '' . square w,~hose foundation Jl allows z.t to turn to accommo-date the movements of t:he ~;antry. the central.. rotation point is dir-ectly under the focal area of the magnifying glass, at the base of the gantry, and cone I~ which is he princ~_pal feature of the focal area is subsequently descr:~.bed in detail.
Plate J is also joined by beams ~ to the bottoms of arches E
as shown in drawing number two, and arches E are joined across their bottoms by beam T~, shown ~_r~ drawing number three . At each end of beam uZ are blocks ~T rah ~_ch serve as the feet of the gantry, and they have roller bearings which allo~,a the gantiy to ride on track 0.
Vjinches P and 0 at eac~l enc~ of track 0 are attached by cable to blo-cks N, and move the gantry frorLi east to west during the day and return it to the east readv for the newt day at nightfall Both arches E a.nd track 0 form arcs zrhich are parts of two circles, each of whose centres are in the focal area of the magnif-ying glass so that despite its movements t.rac~:ing the sun its focal area is corLstant. Z:he lengths (or heights; of. the arcs would be determined by the latitude of the installation and the altitude of the sun on June 21st in the northern hemisphere and on December 21st ~z in t~~e southern hemi.sr:here. gt i_t_s max imum e_f..evation, a straight ~_-1_x1~ frCl~1 the :I:OCal C~:7i.~:x'e t c!SS:L:!7~ t~.'?rOUg~1 C:~:le CE'ntre O~: t~le iT!c~grllf-_ yv_r.~.g; glas s v7ould i.f ~r_ oduce:go to th.e cerut:r a of the stun. on the specified dates. The length of track 0 would ~e ceter_mixxed by the ~~ points of sunrise and svr~se~, on 'the same ciaites. , 'I'hae are twin sysi:ex~~ far tracking the sun., one for its daily passage from cast to ~~~est ; a.r;.d t:he other for_ i.i.s seasonal rnigrat~_ons from north to south. l~;ach consists of a tube which is 3°' wide and two feet long, with a_n electric eye in its base which is inset in the centre of the magnifying g~_ass at right a:r.igles to its surface.. When the suit shines down t-n.c-.>. tubs , a current from the electY-is eye goes to an electromagnet wh:i_ch draw up to it a metal strip. When the sun moves on and the eye passes. ~..ntc sha.doc~r, v:h.e cu-rreni~ is broken and a spring attached to the metal strip draws iv do~.,m to complete a circuit to the winch; s.
In tli~ case of t~~e so:°,~th and north movements of the sun, the circuit closed would be two, the first -to winches G which slowly lift magnifying glass A and its frame C (ox~ :loc,rer_ it, according to the season) to bring the eye back into the sunlight and turn off the winches o The second circuit would go to winches :.' a_nd , attached to=
cone K, which would adjust it to t:he new pos:ita_on of magnifying glass A.
In the case of the daily movements of the sung the circuit con-trolled by the second system would go to winch P, which again would move the gantry to the west and dl-aw the tube back into full sun which wou7_d. turn off t:~~.e cix: cuit until the next movement . At sunset , winch Q is activated to return the gantry to its starting point in the east have referred to the focal point of the magnifying glass but in view of its size it would be more accurate to refer to.a focal area. The tracking system maintains a constarf.t focal area, but it would be somehwat dz_ffz.zsed by the intervals between the corrections of the position of the magnifying glass by the tracking xno~hanism.
ylaximum efficienc~r of the system -requires that the .receptors which convert the sun's energy to steam should face the sun at°.a 90° angle. The tracking system keeps the receptors pointed in the direction of the sun and keep the magnifying glass at the prop er a Levation to focus tl:ne st~n on t:he focal area ~ :W thr receptors with-out : orrectx.om llLLght be re cei wing the sun " s fo;:usu:ed -rays at a 60° rather rt~an a °0° ~,.~.gle. there is a.-_l_sc~
t~~~.~ c~_:l:fusion. p-r_obl_em ref-erred to in the previous paragraph. Both. of these problems would be dealt with by the, use of cone F previously referred to and sho~,~ in drawing nuWber two a_nd now shown in gr~,~atc=~r ~.ietai.l in G-_ ;aids eleva-tion in drawing numbe-r four.
--_- It is a cone wi-ch ~_la.t sides rather tua-_~ t:eing roui:d in shape and instead of .being pcvimted i_ts bottom is ~~,. concave mirror which reflects sunlight reaching it back into the: c~ar~t_re of the cone. The line of its sides, if prf~jecved~ would reach po:i..nts two feet wider , than frame C, which alLoe~s for the periodic adjustm'~nts in the pos-ition of.magnifying glass A iay the tracking system, both with respect to the hcrizontal or daily movements of Lhe sun and. the magnifying glassy and th vertical or seasonal movements as well.
Cone K is attached at its low;~st edge to plate J by hinge R.
and its two top hori.zonta.l edges have s t.ee:I_ eyes S attached to them which allows cone K to be raised or lovpered as required by winches T
and U so that it can track the vertical position of magn>fying glass A. and so maintain the 90 ° angle at which t~v.e receptor_ s in. cone ~
re-.
ceive the sun's rays coming through the magnifying glass. The diff-usion effect previowsly refo.rred to would be dealt with by mirrors or polished metal pa.nel.s v in the sides of cone~~. to concentrate the -.- sun on the receptors. The movement of the cone would require flexib-ility in the plumbing for delivery of wate-r_ and the removal of the steam to the turbines.
So far . as the design of the receptors for harvesting the focus-sed heat of the sun for the generation of electricity is caneerned, they could be of different types.. One such device would be coils of thin-walled black pipes in ~.ahich water_ rising from below would be superheated qnd conducted a~,ray to steam turbines for the generation of of electricity.
An alternative device zaould be a chamber made of reinforced glass the shape of but twice the size of a. hot water tank into which water would be sprayed for di~tect conversion to steam which again would be conducted to tlxrbines for power generation..
There is the further possibility that:-.the cone itself could be CA 02479862 2004-08-25 . . . _ .
_~-the steam generatin~; rec~pto~ i,:ithy the top consvsting of plate glass o-r_ even a one-way miner with water being sprayed inside for the gen-eration of stearr~
A fourth possib:! a ~~scepto-r cot~_ld cons~_st o:E a large glass sphere v~it=h its rear coated with silver to form a rzirror, and above it a one-way miz-ror so that the focussed r ays of the' su.n would reflect and s forth through the sphere pith ~eate-r jets crea.s ing steam for the tur-bines .
The heat generated by the system would he greatest in the midd7_e of the day, and it is pc>ssible that the operators of an installation might wish to generate :Large amounts of power ~>oth. in the morning and ~~n late afternoon and have -' arge size magn~s_..fying glasses for that rea-son. It zs also possible that this m~_ght ~es,u~..t in midday heat lev-els which would overtax t'ne system. ~f_'111_s use of the system could.be a.ccorr~nodaved by instal:Ling on the flat bottom of the magnifying lens tc~To separate sheets of ~oolarized glass 9 wh.~_c~~ could be rotated as re-quired to allow either t=u~_1_ or reduced sunlight to pass through to the focal area .
Tt is possible that a super-sized power generation station based on this concept could be created with a marrz:f:ying lens one hundred -rest or more in diameter. assuming that l.t would not be possible to cast such a large lens :Ln one piece,=.it should nevertheless to manu-facture a composite lens with a number of ~~parate but coordinated segments with the same foca-1 point mounted ors a common frame which tracks the sun for the aene~it of all of th ern. The solution would be to have the frame for the lenses ~t:hemselves divided into segments each of which accommodates one segment of the composite lens, all using comparable in principle to a fly's eye. Perhaps there could bn multiple cons as ccTell., a It would also be possible to manufacture ;small units with a 5' lens which would serve to provide direct power during daytime and also charge batteries for nighttime use for ho~.zseholds or. buildings, similar in effect to solar panels CA 02479862 2004-08-25 . ., GLOSS~AaP,Y OF LETT:F:~RS USED 1N I~~RA~iINGS
TO DES:I:CNATE EI;EI~LEN'I'S OF '~_~iF LNVENTION
A.Lens E.Edge C.Frame D.Rods E.Arches F.Eyes.
G.Winches H.Z'on beam I.Posts J.Steel Plate iZ.Cone L.Beams from stee l plate J to bottoms of arches E
M.Beam connecting bottoms of arches E
N.Blocks under en ds of beam M
0.Track on which gantry travels for daytime tracking of sun P. Winch Q. Winch R. Hinges S. Eyes T. Winch U Wir~.ch .
V ~ iirrors .
Claims
CLAIM
The embodiments of the invention for which an exclusive property or privilege are claimed are:
First, the design and function of the gantry and its technique for the tracking of the sun as set forth in the specification and shown in draw-ings numbers one and two: and Second, the design and function of the cone as set forth in the specification and shown in drawings two and four: and Third, the small version of the invention for use in homes and buildings: and Fourth, the complex lens or fly's eye lens as described in the within specification.
The embodiments of the invention for which an exclusive property or privilege are claimed are:
First, the design and function of the gantry and its technique for the tracking of the sun as set forth in the specification and shown in draw-ings numbers one and two: and Second, the design and function of the cone as set forth in the specification and shown in drawings two and four: and Third, the small version of the invention for use in homes and buildings: and Fourth, the complex lens or fly's eye lens as described in the within specification.
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