DE102022001157A1 - Mill power plant - Google Patents

Abstract

The new type of power plant, the mill power plant, consists of the rotor, the generator for generating electricity (if necessary installed in the rotor), the “bowl” (a kind of curved channel), the hydraulics for moving the “bowl” and the protection device against floating debris in the river The power plant can be installed in practically any watercourse, whether a river, rivulet, stream or stream. Electricity generation can be regulated as needed and the water can be dammed up at night, i.e. when hardly any electricity is needed. The transmission routes to consumers, for example the nearest city or a factory, are short and therefore electricity losses are low.

Description

The invention, the mill power plant, is not about replacing the grinder of a classic water mill with a generator.

The mill power plant is installed across the entire width of a watercourse and can be installed in rivers of any width, even streams and streams.

It consists of the rotor that generates the kinetic energy, the generator that converts it into electricity, a device, a kind of curved gutter, with which the water flow is controlled, the hydraulics to move the gutter, the dam to keep the water flowing and the grid, which serves to keep the river's flotsam away from the system, and the bridge from which the flotsam can be collected (see drawing). The design of the generator will not be discussed here. There are various options and certainly include installing the generator in the rotor, like you do with the dynamo of a bicycle by installing it in the wheel hub.

Of course, the mill power plants can and should be installed close to the electricity consumers.

This means that the transmission paths are short and the power losses are low.

On the other hand, they should preferably be built under bridges so that there are not so many technical structures in the landscape.

Electricity generation can be regulated by electricity consumers as required, so that no excess electricity (as with coal-fired power plants) is generated in the first place.

The watercourse can be dammed at night because then you hardly need any energy, so you have enough water during the day.

The little electricity that is needed at night can be drawn from other sources. You can also build a battery house next to the power plant and store electricity there during the day.

This would also apply to factories that work at night, unless the water inflow is so large that it is sufficient for nighttime operations and does not need to be dammed for daytime operations. The effort involved in setting it up, so to speak for eternity, is low and hardly worth mentioning compared to a coal or nuclear power plant. This also applies to repairs.

Because there is no longer any need to purchase raw materials (such as coal) and no power plants, which are huge and equipped with many different systems to generate electricity, the cost of generating energy is drastically reduced.

The operating result will be extremely higher and this will certainly make electricity cheaper for energy consumers.

Explanations drawing

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Dam wall

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Rotor for generating electricity with rotor blades

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Building

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Grid to catch the flotsam

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Bridge for fishing out the flotsam

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Hydraulics to move the “bowl”

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Device to keep the water flow to the rotor constant and to accumulate the water

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generator

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Mill power plant

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