US20150132151A1 - Water level flow speed-increasing generating station, power station, water supply station, and offshore floating city - Google Patents

Water level flow speed-increasing generating station, power station, water supply station, and offshore floating city Download PDF

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US20150132151A1
US20150132151A1 US14/476,244 US201414476244A US2015132151A1 US 20150132151 A1 US20150132151 A1 US 20150132151A1 US 201414476244 A US201414476244 A US 201414476244A US 2015132151 A1 US2015132151 A1 US 2015132151A1
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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
    • F03B17/00—Other machines or engines
    • F03B17/06—Other machines or engines using liquid flow with predominantly kinetic energy conversion, e.g. of swinging-flap type, "run-of-river", "ultra-low head"
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04D—NON-POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04D1/00—Radial-flow pumps, e.g. centrifugal pumps; Helico-centrifugal pumps
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/10—Stators
    • F05B2240/13—Stators to collect or cause flow towards or away from turbines
    • F05B2240/132—Stators to collect or cause flow towards or away from turbines creating a vortex or tornado effect
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/10—Stators
    • F05B2240/13—Stators to collect or cause flow towards or away from turbines
    • F05B2240/133—Stators to collect or cause flow towards or away from turbines with a convergent-divergent guiding structure, e.g. a Venturi conduit
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/90—Mounting on supporting structures or systems
    • F05B2240/93—Mounting on supporting structures or systems on a structure floating on a liquid surface
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/90—Mounting on supporting structures or systems
    • F05B2240/93—Mounting on supporting structures or systems on a structure floating on a liquid surface
    • F05B2240/931—Mounting on supporting structures or systems on a structure floating on a liquid surface which is a vehicle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/90—Mounting on supporting structures or systems
    • F05B2240/97—Mounting on supporting structures or systems on a submerged structure
    • 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
    • Y02E10/20—Hydro energy
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to the field of hydraulic machinery, and relates to, by using the law of motion conversion and Bernoulli's equation, a generating station formed with a water level speed-increasing water tunnel 3 set on a special ship or offshore floating city increasing a natural flow velocity V1 ⁇ 1 m/sec of a water source to a high speed of V2 ⁇ 200 m/sec to propel a turbine 2 , and drive a generator 1 ; a power station formed with the turbine 2 driving various load machinery; and a water supply station formed with an outlet 6 (or via an annular inlet manifold 22 ) of the speed-increasing water tunnel 3 being connected to a lift tube 26 ; the stations can lift water in the Bohai Sea to be irrigated westward to the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang without other power devices and pumps, or lift water in the Atlantic Ocean to be irrigated eastward to the Sahara Desert in North Africa, to thoroughly improve the global climate conditions.
  • the present invention can replace high
  • a hydroelectric power station particularly a river, sea, ocean dynamic pressure hydroelectric power station, is provided, characterized in that, basic elements of a water tunnel speed-increasing hydroelectric power station with single unit power of ⁇ 1000 KW to >1000000 KW include a generator 1 and a hydraulic turbine 2 , one or more outlets 6 of a speed-increasing water tunnel 3 increasing a natural velocity V 1 ⁇ 1 m/sec of flowing water on the river, sea, ocean plane to V 2 ⁇ 200 m/sec are set at a water source inlet of the hydraulic turbine 2 , a cross-sectional shell of the speed-increasing water tunnel 3 has circumferential tightness, whose inlet 5 is always below a water surface and sectional area F 1 >>F 2 —an outlet 6 and has a radial or circumferential local opening adjustment device making the generator move at a constant speed, the position of the outlet 6 of the speed-increasing water tunnel 3 may be in the same plane with the inlet 5 or above or below
  • An otherwise-driven ship propeller set as a floating offshore floating city or special ship and a power transmission device thereof are provided, where an underwater ground pile group 19 linked with an anchor chain 21 is provided for a lighthouse movable power supply hub linked with a submarine distribution cable.
  • each turbine generator unit In the case of use of the offshore floating city especially multiple hub generator units, the centers of each turbine generator units are arranged in a circle, an inlet pipe 24 is linked with the annular inlet manifold 22 in a radial direction thereof, an outer side thereof is linked with the speed-increasing water tunnel 3 through the outlet 6 of the speed-increasing water tunnel, and effluent of each hydraulic turbine 2 is discharged to an annular tube (groove) 23 from its own discharge tube (groove) 25 or discharged to a free water surface, and the offshore floating city having the facilities.
  • the number of the hydraulic turbines 2 and the generators 1 thereof may be several or dozens and a power plant thereof belongs to a power storage transformation system.
  • the material of the speed-increasing water tunnel 3 includes a steel structure, a composite or single layer steel sheet, engineering plastic, and aluminum alloy.
  • a transmission manner of a circumferential brake device of the offshore floating city or special ship 4 may be that a prime motor with a power source of independent power supply (diesel or motor with independent power supply) drives a reducer (or a turbine pair) having self-locking performance whose slow shaft drives two ends of a wire rope drum 11 to be wound on an outer edge of the underwater pile tower 9 in a multi-hoop manner, and the circumferential brake device receives flow direction signals to position the offshore floating city or special ship 4 in a direction.
  • a prime motor with a power source of independent power supply diesel or motor with independent power supply
  • a reducer or a turbine pair
  • the giant radial bearing 10 is fixed to an outer edge of the pile tower 9 from an inner diameter of an inner ring 12 , an outer diameter thereof and an inner diameter of an intermediate ring 13 have clearance there between, the bearing can move up and down, an outer diameter of the intermediate ring 13 is a convex sphere, and mates with the inner ring 12 of an outer ring 14 having a concave sphere, and an outer diameter of the outer ring 14 is fixed to the installation base 15 .
  • a link between the platform of the larboard and the starboard of the offshore floating city or special ship and the ship body may be a welded whole, or may be a group hinged joint, its link with the pile tower 9 may be a link with the spherical radial bearing 10 , or may be a fixed mode, and the number and the position of the pile tower 9 are set appropriately.
  • An otherwise-driven ship propeller set as a floating offshore floating city or special ship and a power transmission device thereof are provided, where an underwater ground pile group 19 linked with an anchor chain 21 is provided for a lighthouse movable power supply hub linked with a submarine distribution cable.
  • Pelton turbine is named after the American inventor, Lester A Pelton, it is a multi-blade radial flow device, in which there may be a single nozzle or multiple nozzles, and the hydraulic head thereof may be up to 2000 m.
  • water sources of water turbines all use static pressure of high level water as power sources.
  • the hydraulic head of the Pelton turbine is 200-2000 m
  • the head of the Francis turbine is 50-700 m
  • the hydraulic head of the Diagonal turbine is 5-50 m
  • the present invention converts them into corresponding water velocities (m/sec).
  • Hydropower and wind power both belong to the scope of application of fluid mechanics, so power per unit area of their actuator disks is proportional to the velocity V 3 , the difference lies in that values of density ⁇ are different, water density is ⁇ 1000 kg/m 3 , air density is 1.25 kg/m 3 , and thus unit weight of water is
  • Such a river, sea, lake, ocean dynamic pressure hydroelectric power station is characterized in that, by using the law of motion conversion, basic elements of the river, sea, lake, ocean dynamic pressure hydroelectric power station include a generator 1 and a hydraulic turbine 2 , one or more speed-increasing water tunnels 3 increasing a natural velocity V 1 ⁇ 1 m/sec of flat flowing water in the river, sea, lake, ocean to V 2 ⁇ 200 msec are set at a water source inlet of the hydraulic turbine 2 , an increment of the outlet/inlet kinetic energy thereof is
  • the present invention belongs to green energy, and is a sustainable development project most widely distributed and storing most energy; as long as river is flowing and the moon is still moving around the earth, such energy is endless and inexhaustible; when the density of population on the Earth is too large, it should be a good choice to migrate to the offshore floating city having the device of the present invention on the sea; even if it is a professional ship of the special device of the present invention, it can supply power to land through a submarine cable.
  • the present invention Compared with high level-dependent, large drop, and barrage generating stations, the present invention has a small investment in terms of the structure of the speed-increasing water tunnel (3) , if a special ship of the present invention is equipped with two generators of 700 MW, assuming its displacement is 40,000 tons, the overall cost is only 400 million yuan if calculated with 10,000 yuan/ton, while the water supply station is more economical because of not needing turbines and pumps.
  • the present invention does not need to set upright barrages, the equipment in the prior art can be used for its main components such as the high-power hydraulic turbine and generator, and it is very likely to avoid wars for energy given wide implementation thereof.
  • the inventor is 82 years old now and has engaged in the mechanical design research work for 60 years; at this moment, I feel like to sing: “If the sea can be arranged in this way, keep wars for energy away . . . ”.
  • the special ship(4) is installed with two vertical-axis Francis turbines of 200 MW in parallel, the rotational diameter thereof is 5 m, the water pressure head is 110 m, and the total installed capacity is 400 MW. If 24 units of 700 MW have been installed, the total installed capacity may be up to the total capacity of the Three Gorges Dam, and the multiple hub generator units of the offshore floating city according to the present invention can meet the above requirements.
  • FIG. 1 shows a symmetrical unit linear water tunnel speed-increasing special ship or offshore floating city of a dual-base hydraulic power station
  • FIG. 2 shows a helical equiangular spiral or non-equiangular spiral speed-increasing special ship or offshore floating city of a single-base hydraulic power station;
  • FIG. 3 shows a multi-directional linear water tunnel speed-increasing special ship or offshore floating city of a single-base hydraulic power station
  • FIG. 4 is a partial sectional view of a special ship 4 , an underwater pile tower 9 , an underwater ground pile group 19 , and a cast anchor 21 ;
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional view of sectional installation of a hydraulic turbine 2 and a generator 1 ;
  • FIG. 6 is a partial planar arrangement view of an offshore floating city especially an offshore floating city of multiple hydraulic hub generator units.
  • FIG. 7 is a water supply station of the special ship or offshore floating city.
  • the optimal solution for implementing the present invention is using mature hydraulic turbines and generators whose single machine capacity can reach 700 MW at present in the prior art as a basic power portion, using the ocean ship design and manufacture as a basis, having power supply and distribution industries coordinate with each other, and taking the mission of the third industrial resolution as a motive force, which should receive strong support from governments around the world, where there is love for future generations in the world, it is not difficult to do this and achieve wide application with joint efforts of the colleagues.
  • the inventor will spare no effort to participate in related design and research and development work.

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