EP1617074A1 - Hydraulic buoyancy motor - Google Patents

Abstract

The tank has an open lower side and a hermetic upper side drilled with an orifice coupled to a tube (T). Valves (2, 3, 5) are disposed along the length of the orifice. Vapor pressure on the lower side drives air flow in the tank. The valves control alternations of the cycle of course of water and air in the tube to make air to arrive up to the valves and return inside the tank while maintaining a constant flow till an upper point (7).

Description

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

This invention is an energy utilization system based on the principle of the hydrostatic pressure of a liquid on the air, using, and benefiting from, the continuous flow of the outlet and the air inlet of the inside a tank submerged in a water deposit, to generate energy.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention appears as a response to the need to meet the growing energy demand, both domestically and industrially and locally and globally, by creating a clean, sustainable, unlimited energy production system, free of waste and residues.

Such a circumstance has led to growing awareness on this subject, both at the social level and at the level of the public authorities.

The design and installation of the system of this invention are simple, requiring no fuel for its performance and operation and producing no type of waste and residue.

HISTORY

The gradual and steady increase in energy consumption at all levels, both local and global, is an indisputable fact today.

This is due to several concomitant factors: growth demographic, access to a greater proportion of the population to new comforts leading to greater demand and energy consumption (washing machines, heating, television sets, etc.), use of services and new technologies that do not previously did not exist (Internet, etc.), global increase in industrialization, etc.

As a result of this, the sources of energy production so far considered as traditional, are the subject of studies and revision, to find alternative sources of energy, alternative or complementary, which would meet the growing demand and promote optimal sustainable development at the global level.

In addition, we must underline an imperative necessity: the new energetic alternatives in study to those already existing today, must be fully compatible with a sustainable environmental development, without mortgaging the environment of the future generations.

Such a situation has increased awareness and social awareness of these potential new sources of energy in relation to the absolute need to be sustainable and to protect the environment. This awareness has also affected the public authorities.

ABSTRACT

In accordance with what is stated, the energy utilization system is characterized by a device that causes an airflow and a flow of air present inside a system. tank, outside and inside the tank itself. This tank is submerged in a deposit of water, it is opened by its lower slope. It is the pressure of the water on the part of the lower slope of the tank which propels the flow of circulation of exit and entry of the air present in the tank, outside and inside of the own tank.

The energy utilization system comprises a series of valves, and starts when one of these valves is in the closed position while one of the other valves is in the open position, knowing that there is initially water in the curvature of the tube. The air, pushed by the pressure exerted by the water on the open lower side of the tank, circulates and flows through the tube from one of the open valves, passing from valve to valve, with a displacement of the liquid being the tube. It is at this point that one of the valves closes to prevent air from passing past the position of the tube valve and escaping through the outer opening of the tube. Then, one of the valves closes while another valve opens simultaneously, allowing the air held up to the valve, and located between the valves, to move back and forth through the opening of the valve, and return to the tank through the liquid tank. The recoil of the air causes the water in the tube to return to the curvature again in its initial position. This is when the initial valve opens and the cycle starts again.
The energy utilization system takes advantage of the flow of air flowing through the tube to produce energy.
All the features of this invention will be more understandable from the detailed description which follows, accompanied by explanatory drawings illustrating a practical example of embodiment, not limiting the scope thereof.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

• Figure 1 schematically illustrates the arrangement of the various elements of the energy use system based on the principle of the hydrostatic pressure of a liquid on the air.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In accordance with the subject of the invention, this system of energy use based on the principle of the hydrostatic pressure of a liquid on the air, uses and benefits from the continuous flow of exit and entry of air from the inside of a submerged tank in a water deposit, to produce energy.

The arrangement and operation of the system can be appreciated in Figure 1. The tank (1) is submerged in a tank (6) full of water. The tank (1) is below the water level (N) of the tank (6). This tank (1) is further opened by its lower slope (VI).

The tank (1) has an orifice on its upper part with a valve (2). From this orifice part a tube (T) permanently submerged and from this outside point of the tank (1), and through the water of the tank (6), it reaches the part which is under the lower slope (VI) open of the tank (1). At this level of the lower slope (VI) open of the tank (1) the tube has a valve (3). The role of this valve (3) is not to obstruct the passage through the tube but to establish or stop the communication between the inside and the outside of the tube.

After the valve (3), the tube continues and descends again to a point where the valve (5) is. There, it begins to go up to an outside point (7) above the water level (N) of the tank (6).

The actuation of the system is done when the valve (3) is closed and the valve (2) open. There is initially water in the bend (B) of the tube (T). The air, pushed by the pressure exerted by the water on the open lower side of the tank (1), circulates and flows through the tube (T) from the open valve (2), passing through the valve (3). ) to the valve (5), with a displacement of the liquid from the tube to the position (7). It is then that valve (5) closes to prevent air from passing beyond the valve (5) of the tube (T) and to escape through the opening (7). Then, the valve (2) closes while the valve (3) opens simultaneously, allowing the air held up to the position (5) and included between
the valves (3) and (5) back and forth through the opening of the valve (3) to return to the tank (1) through the liquid tank (6). The recoil of the air causes the water in the tube between (7) and (5) to return to the curvature (B) in its initial position. The valve (2) opens and the cycle begins again.

It is the passage of the air flow through the tube (T), after having passed through the valve (2), which generates the production of energy.

The arrangement of the system in Figure 1 - which allows an outlet flow and entry of the air present inside a tank (1), outside and inside the tank, which is submerged in a water deposit, and opened by its lower slope (VI), the pressure of the water on the lower slope part (VI) of the tank (1) being that which propels the flow of flow of exit and of air entering the tank (1), outside and inside the tank (1) - can have a topography, a configuration and more components relevant for such functions. The described components, or other suitable components, may be used to perform the same type of function.

The invention, in its essence, can be practiced in other embodiments, differing only in some details from that given by way of example, while respecting the required protection. It will therefore be possible to exploit this invention with the most appropriate means, components and accessories, the component elements being able to be replaced by other technically equivalent ones, provided that they remain in the standards claimed.

Claims (3)

A submerged vessel (1) within a fluid or reservoir (6), under the water level line (N), with its lower open slope (VI) and its upper sealed, pierced top of an orifice to which is connected a tube (T) which passes under the tank and leaves later by the water level (N) and, on the longitude of which are two or more valves (2,3,5) and the main features of the set being the water pressure, on the lower side (VI) of the tank, which propels the flow of flow of exit and entry of the air present in the tank, outside and inside from its own tank, a system of valves (2,3, 5) that regulate the alternation of the water and air flow cycle inside the tube, causing the air to reach the valve or the valves (3,5) and returns to the interior of the tank maintaining a constant flow to an outside point (7). A submerged vessel, according to claim 1, which, on the one hand the water pressure on the lower slope (VI) of the submerged vessel (1), on the other hand two or more valves (2,3,5) of which the role is, according to this pressure, to open and close sequentially, to let air through the tube (T) - up to a maximum point that prevents it from returning to the submerged vessel (1) - and entering water into the tube with sufficient pressure to exit through an outer point (7). A submerged vessel, according to claims 1 and 2, a tube (T) - which unites the interior of the submerged vessel with the outside (7) of the level (N) of the water - which has the role of driving the water and air pressures, via the valves (2.3.5), from the submerged vessel (1) to the outlet external (7) allowing the generation of energy or the use of the fluid.

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