GB2583251A - Tidal-driven seawater pump - Google Patents

Tidal-driven seawater pump Download PDF

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GB2583251A
GB2583251A GB2009234.2A GB202009234A GB2583251A GB 2583251 A GB2583251 A GB 2583251A GB 202009234 A GB202009234 A GB 202009234A GB 2583251 A GB2583251 A GB 2583251A
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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
    • F03B—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS
    • F03B13/00—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates
    • F03B13/12—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy
    • F03B13/14—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy
    • F03B13/16—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem"
    • F03B13/18—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore
    • F03B13/1845—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore and the wom slides relative to the rem
    • F03B13/187—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using wave energy using the relative movement between a wave-operated member, i.e. a "wom" and another member, i.e. a reaction member or "rem" where the other member, i.e. rem is fixed, at least at one point, with respect to the sea bed or shore and the wom slides relative to the rem and the wom directly actuates the piston of a pump
    • 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
    • F03B—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS
    • F03B13/00—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates
    • F03B13/12—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy
    • F03B13/26—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using tide energy
    • F03B13/262—Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus; Power stations or aggregates characterised by using wave or tide energy using tide energy using the relative movement between a tide-operated member and another member
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B19/00—Machines or pumps having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B17/00
    • F04B19/003—Machines or pumps having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B17/00 free-piston type pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B19/00—Machines or pumps having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F04B1/00 - F04B17/00
    • F04B19/20—Other positive-displacement pumps
    • F04B19/22—Other positive-displacement pumps of reciprocating-piston type
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B35/00—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for
    • F04B35/004—Piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids and characterised by the driving means to their working members, or by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors, not otherwise provided for driven by floating elements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B9/00—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members
    • F04B9/08—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid
    • F04B9/10—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being liquid
    • F04B9/109—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being liquid having plural pumping chambers
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • 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
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/30—Energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient

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Abstract

Tidal-driven seawater pump (100) with a socket (111) arranged to rest upon the seabed. A buoyance means (101) is connected to a piston (102) accommodated slidably in a closed cylinder (108) with a lower compartment (109) with top wall (112). A seal (113) is provided along the periphery of the piston (102). The cylinder (108) exhibits an upper inlet valve (106A) and a lower inlet valve (106B), and an outlet for pumping seawater in the cylinder (108) to the sea surface either through upper outlet valve (107A) or lower outlet valve (107B). The buoyance means (101) is accommodated slidably in a housing (110) having an upper compartment (117) with an upper open end (110A), and having a lower end delimited by the top wall (112) of the lower compartment (109). The housing (110) is provided with a number of flow apertures (115) to allow exchange of seawater between the environments and the upper compartment (117) of the protective housing (110).

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Claims
1. Tidal-driven seawater pump (100) with a socket (111) arranged to rest upon the seabed, comprising: a buoyance means (101) connected to a piston (102) through a substantially vertically extending stiff connector means (103), wherein the piston (102) is accommodated slidably in a closed cylinder (108) having a top wall (112) and defining a lower compartment ( 109), wherein a seal (113) is provided along the periphery of the piston (102) and the cylinder (108) wall, and wherein the cylinder (108) at its outside exhibits an inlet for supply of seawater from the environments to either an upper inlet valve (106A) at the top wall (112) or a lower inlet valve (106B) and further to the internal closed compartment (109), and an outlet to allow seawater accommodated in the lower compartment (109) of the cylinder (108) to be pumped to a reception onshore or at the sea surface either through an upper outlet valve (107A) or a lower outlet valve (107B); characterized in that the buoyance means (101) is accommodated slidably in a substantially vertically extending elongate protective housing (110) having an upper compartment (117) with an upper open end (110A), and having a lower end delimited by the top wall (112) of the lower compartment (109), wherein the protective housing (110) is provided with numerous flow apertures (115) to allow exchange of seawater between the environments and the upper compartment (117) of the protective housing (110).
2. The tidal-driven seawater pump (100) of claim 1, wherein the buoyance means (101) is formed of a solid material having negative buoyancy, and having a recess in the underside of the buoyance means (101) defining a cavity (114) with means for supplying or evacuating air from the cavity (114) when the buoyance means (101) is submerged .
3. The tidal-driven seawater pump (100) of claim 1, where the buoyance means (101) is formed of concrete.
4. The tidal-driven seawater pump (100) of claim 1, wherein the top wall (112) of the lower compartment (109) is arranged movable in the axial direction within the cylinder (108) and exhibits means for locking or releasing the top wall (112) at desired elevation inside the cylinder (108).
5. The tidal-driven seawater pump (100) of claim 4, wherein the cylinder (108) exhibits a number of additional inlet valves (106A', 106A") distributed at a mutual distance in the height direction, and a number of additional outlet valves (107A', 107 A") distributed at a mutual distance in the height direction .
6. The tidal-driven seawater pump (100) of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the inlet valve (106A) is a non-return valve preventing seawater from flowing out of the lower compartment (109) in the cylinder (108), and wherein the outlet valve (107A) is a non-return valve preventing seawater from flowing into the lower compartment (109) in the cylinder (108).
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NO20171846A NO343666B1 (en) 2017-11-20 2017-11-20 Tidal powered seawater pump
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US4698969A (en) * 1984-03-12 1987-10-13 Wave Power Industries, Ltd. Wave power converter
BE903837A (en) * 1985-12-12 1986-04-01 Waelbers Emanuel Energy generation and storage complex - uses e.g. tides, wind, water level differentials, solar radiation to continuously generate air thermals to drive rotors
CA1292638C (en) * 1986-10-06 1991-12-03 George W. Berg Tidal power apparatus
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