WO2004109098A1

WO2004109098A1 - Mobile river power stations

Info

Publication number: WO2004109098A1
Application number: PCT/IB2003/002804
Authority: WO
Inventors: Harry Pisek; Hans-Peter Wilke
Original assignee: Harry Pisek; Hans-Peter Wilke
Priority date: 2003-06-06
Filing date: 2003-06-06
Publication date: 2004-12-16

Abstract

Mobile river power stations built on pontoons (6).

Description

MOBILE RIVER POWER PLANTS

The alternative in the generation of electrical energy: the new form and type of river power plants

The government has decided to phase out nuclear energy. This is certainly a well-considered step, but then we also have to think of problem-free alternatives, because the energy consumption of all industrialized countries will continue to increase in the future.

For this - we believe - we can make a proposal that has many previously unknown advantages:

The new, mobile river power plants

In the following we would like to explain some of the focal points of our ideas.

1. The exit from nuclear energy

The previous nuclear power plants [AKW] have supplied electrical energy that must be balanced or increased by other forms of energy in the present and in the future, even if one only assumes medium-sized growth in industrialized countries. The progress in technology and society has always been connected with the question of energy. The failure of the energy supply for only a few hours has led to enormous consequences and irreparable damage - sufficient evidence has been provided recently (e.g. failure of the Mannheim district heating power plant in December 2001 at outside temperatures of minus 16 ° C).

The jobs in the nuclear power plants should also be considered as well as those of the suppliers and the downstream industries.

In terms of personnel, we can deal with both problem areas almost cost-neutral because our developments also require personnel in several areas of manufacturing and operation.

Here, too, we are dealing with specialists with mostly technical knowledge.

2. What do we want to do differently?

We want to use the energy of flowing and undamaged rivers with new, mobile river power plants, i.e. the utilization of the kinetic energy.

River power plants are not fundamentally completely new developments, but two powerful arguments against stationary river power plants have always been raised in the past:

2.1. Disadvantage 1

The significant construction and operating costs for the buildings in the river to accommodate the turbines, generators, etc. These concrete structures must withstand the constant loads of the flowing water - and this at all water levels - i.e. also during floods, storm surges etc. extraordinary occurrences,

and

2.2. Disadvantage 2

The rivers in which river power plants have been installed can hardly be used for ship travel because they block the necessary fairway almost completely. The situation is similar with pent-up waters, the majority of which can only be used for potential energy.

However, our concept is based on completely different aspects that can fundamentally eliminate the resistance to the river power plants.

2.3. Movable river power plants

Our water turbines are not based on concrete structures that are firmly anchored in the river, but on stable pontoons (= ship's hull) that are detachably attached to the bottom of the river bed or on the bank.

The natural flow of the river always ensures the necessary tension in the anchor chains or fortress walls. However, this eliminates the heavy and costly concrete buildings, including their costly repairs and maintenance.

Further, elementary advantages arise:

2.4. Use of the fairway

Due to the mobility of the pontoons, the river power station is moved out of the main flow channel of the river when the ship needs the fairway. E.g. the ship trip interrupted, e.g. at night, the river power station is moved back to the area with the highest flow velocities and immediately the turbines start to turn again and generate electrical energy via the generators.

If the entire width of the river is not used by ship travel, the free zones can be used continuously for river power plants.

3. The new, mobile river power plants fFKW)

3.1. construction time

The construction time is relatively short and can be carried out for a river in different sections without disrupting the operation of the ship, because the manufacture of the pontoons, turbines, generators and accessories can be carried out preparatively on land, but assembly on the river is only relatively short in time Takes up.

3.3. building-costs

No gigantic funds are required for the first plant - i.e. for the pilot project, because e.g. decommissioned barges, military pontoons and similar hulls can be used.

3.4. No development costs - no development risk

The concept proposed by us does not require any additional development effort, since existing and proven know-how can be used.

This is certainly an essential decision-making aid for realizing our concept.

There are also enough German and European companies that are able to build efficient water turbines and arrange the overall installation. No additional development effort is required here either. Mobile river power plants: General list of arguments disadvantage

4.1. HFC failure

River power plants have no major functional disadvantages. If a HFC fails anyway, there are no pollutants or contamination of air, land, water, plants, animals or even humans. Even with terrorist influence on HFCs, there are no health consequences from radiation, explosion, flooding, etc.

The HFC is then removed from the network and if necessary. repaired.

4.2. The energy source water

The energy source water is inexhaustible and always available, as you can easily recognize from the centuries-old existence of our rivers: day and night, summer and winter.

The water is not consumed, e.g. also no generation problem. The water balance in nature is not disturbed. The water is not damaged. On the contrary, the oxygen quality from the air and / or targeted vaccination improves the water quality and enables or activates fish farming. (Self-cleaning effects in the river). This phenomenon will also lead to a targeted, own fish production in Germany or other countries and thus to a source of income and jobs.

4.3. Convertibility of electrical energy from hydropower

Electrical energy is easy to transport via cables and can be converted into other forms of energy (mechanical, thermal, chemical, etc.). The necessary networks are already available across Europe (network systems).

4.4. Convertibility to hydrogen

A key feature of the conversion is the conversion of electrical energy into hydrogen, which would surely benefit the burgeoning hydrogen industry after the fuel cell is nearing completion.

Under certain circumstances, production could even take place on board the pontoons in order to be filled into safe containers there too. A production according to the respective need would be indicated to minimize the storage volume.

Hydrogen can create new technologies and thus additional jobs, if only because of the considerations regarding the safe storage of hydrogen.

Here Germany could gain a head start in hydrogen technology that would also be exportable. Other dangerous gases, such as We can already store acetylene safely. Analogies are conceivable. This consideration can also create hundreds of thousands of jobs - and not just in Germany. The problem of the unemployed is moving closer to solvability across Europe, if only by building new high-speed lines all over the world. Transporting goods creates prosperity. Keyword: The Silk and Salt Road of earlier times.

4.5. Evaporation or misting of floods by electr. Energy.

Since there is sufficient electrical energy with this technology, it can be considered to evaporate or atomize certain amounts of water in times of flooding and to discharge them into the higher layers of the air. This lowers the level and you can avoid a lot of damage to banks and houses.

The electrical evaporation or the pump-like nebulization is very intensive, so that relatively large amounts of water can be brought into the vapor or mist phase in a short time. Here, too, no additional developments are required.

Evaporation means: With heat from electrical energy, water is converted into invisible water vapor, which rises to higher layers of the air on its own

Nebulizing means: Distribute water into tiny droplets with pump pressure and pump it away into higher layers of air.

4.5. Acceleration of the flow speed during floods

In times of rising water in rivers or when floods have already occurred, the water turbines can be powered by electricity from the normal network in order to drain a lot more water. Increasing the flow speed is the only way to intervene to transport more water down the valley.

5.0 River power plants and environmental aspects

5.1. No adverse combustion products

In contrast to the current energy - generation by nuclear power and coal-fired power plants, no negative combustion products, such as C02, SOx, NOx etc., arise during the generation of electricity from mobile river power plants. This causes the air to be deacidified and the associated damage caused by acid rain such as forest damage, building damage, etc.

With the increased use of hydrogen, only pure water is produced as a combustion product during recombination. Electrical energy does not cause emissions or waste products of any kind.

5.2. No contamination

There is no contamination - neither normal nor in the event of malfunction. Not even in the case of terrorist or other inappropriate effects.

5.3. No waste from river power plants

Neither before, nor during, nor after the operation of river power plants are any products or waste products that have to be removed and / or disposed of.

5.4. No piping

No elaborate pipelines have to be produced and buried for the discharge, transport away, and electrical energy, but this is done with the help of largely existing electrical cables that establish the connection to the existing interconnected networks. Pipelines, e.g. oil and gas supplies are therefore not necessary. Electricity is the safest form of energy - in transportation and handling.

5.5. A remarkable alternative for human life

With every ton of fuel (petrol, heating oil, kerosene) that does not have to be burned, there is also a reduction in the risk of illness for humans, but also for animals, plants and the environment.

Political aspects in connection with river power plants 6.1. Potential independence

A major objective is to achieve a high degree of independence from other energy sources and their owners. The well-known dependence on the oil-producing countries is only one aspect.

Of course, we will still need natural gas and oil, but we can use it to cover our basic energetic burdens - at least largely, because that depends on the degree of installation density with river power plants.

6.2. No blackmail at river power plants

River power plants are not exposed to sabotage or terrorist threats because the damage does not have any major consequences. Just think of the consequences of destroying the world's largest dam in China. Millions of lives can be wiped out there by just one terrorist intervention. From the Sachscha not even speaking that.

Due to the area scatter, even the simultaneous shutdown of several river power plants is a relatively small damage.

It has long been known that nuclear power plants are in the area of terrorist desires. Nuclear power plants are virtually unprotectable - not even against aerial attacks or functional crashes. The events of the 1st September 2001 triggered a lot of thoughts about security risk - solutions are not in sight.

There will probably be no attacks on river power plants due to the low damage - if it does, then Ingelheim - Nord has no electricity for 20 minutes.

6.3. Energy source river power plants

The energy source is also a source of income that will create many permanent jobs, even the river boaters who may become unemployed will find qualified work here again. Progress also made coal locomotive heaters unemployed when the diesel locomotives were introduced. However, most of them could be used again by retraining.

With the cheaper electrical energy from mobile river power plants, other transport systems can be used more profitably. a transrapid to be built. Perhaps even in an evacuated glass tube to reduce drag.

Electrical energy does not generate noise, e.g. the wind turbines near housing estates.

As a result, nuclear power can largely be dispensed with; the cost-effective alternative is now available. A clean, orderly exit is possible with simultaneous switch-off of the risks associated with nuclear power, such as irreparable environmental contamination, damage to the genome, material fatigue, transport and final storage of the burned-out fuel rods - keyword CASTOR transports etc.

6.4. No irreversible facts are created by river power plants

No irreversible facts are created by the mobile river power plants, no villages have to give way, no landscape has to be irretrievably changed. The encroachment on nature is modestly small, because there are stations on the rivers that are just as big and as shallow as the current barges on the Rhine, Elbe, Danube, Oder, Vistula, Volga, or, or

Subsequent generations not only "inherit" a positive development, but can still build on this concept, perhaps by finally making the breakthrough to the possibilities of energy storage.

6.5. The advantages remain - even if the mobile river power plants should become stationary

Even if large areas of the river bed are covered with the new river power plants, all advantages of this concept are retained. It is therefore seen as proof that this concept realistically answers energy questions of the present and the future.

6.6. A financial constellation of far-reaching importance

Due to the exchange of energy from gasoline, heating oil (petroleum) for electrical energy and hydrogen from "river power", there will probably remain three-digit billions in USD in Germany that can be used for other purposes and thus contribute to the increase in national wealth.

Anyone who effectively takes on this matter in Germany as a party, organization, country, state or institution can be sure that this conception will bring prosperity to people in Germany and also in the world.

Germany will return to the top of the industrialized countries and kinetic river energy will not only become an inexhaustible source of electricity but also an enormous source of money that can solve many problems in the industrialized countries - but also in the third world.

Claims

protection claims

Protection claim 1, characterized in that there are enough rivers with a high water volume, the flowing energy (that is kinetic energy) we will convert into electrical current with high efficiency.

Protection claim 2, characterized in that the river and the water no adverse changes are added, on the contrary, the water quality is improved, so that fish farming is again possible as a source of income.

Protection claim 3, characterized in that mobile hydropower plants are built on pontoons and pivoted into the zones of high speed of the rivers and thus the highest energy yield and removed again when ships have to pass the river.

Protection claim 4, characterized in that this conception does not change the landscape and river picture, no irreversible changes are needed, even subsequent generations have no problems with our concept - on the contrary, we leave clean and inexhaustible sources of energy for our children.

Protection claim 5, characterized in that

There are no emissions, no contamination, no radioactivity, no waste of any kind. The words CASTOR, disposal and final storage no longer exist. Protection claim 6, characterized in that the electrical current from river power plants does not generate acid rain and therefore no forest dieback and no buildings are damaged by acid attack (corrosion), and we reduce the otherwise emitted pollutants considerably compared to now.

Protection claim 7, characterized in that only much lower investment and construction costs arise than is the case for all other types of power plants. In addition, the approval and construction times are much shorter.

Protection claim 8, characterized in that you can produce a lot of hydrogen with the electricity generated and will thus contribute to the widespread use of the fuel cell. Here, too, no or only very low emissions are to be expected during "combustion". The use of these technologies in the automotive sector means that we produce our own fuel and therefore hardly pollute the air we breathe. (Air improvement effects)

Protection claim 9, characterized in that with this concept we can get a very high percentage of Germany

Establish energy requirements. The estimated numbers are 50%.

Protection claim 10, characterized in that new jobs are created and existing ones are secured, which is a mandatory consequence of the concept. The resulting increase in prosperity increases consumption and the need for services of all kinds. However, this in turn lowers unemployment.

Protection claim 11, characterized in that

We are energetically and economically almost independent of all other energy owners of oil and natural gas. Etc. dami and protect the coal for later, perhaps more useful uses. Protection claim 12, characterized in that no terrorist desires are awakened on mobile river power plants because if they are damaged or destroyed, hardly any people will be at risk, nor will there be any dangerous radiation or other serious, economic consequences, such as the blasting of a nuclear power plant or of a dam.

Protection claim 13, characterized in that the mobile river power plants are attached to ships or pontoons and anchored in the river or on the bank.

Protection claim 14, characterized in that the pontoons or ships on which the turbines and or generators are attached can be pivoted or rotated into the river in order to be able to work in the areas of greatest flow speed.

Protection claim 15, characterized in that flow accelerators inform of conical or funnel-shaped channels are installed in front of the turbines in order to increase the flow velocity and thus the kinetic energy.

Protection claim 16, characterized in that the electrical energy generated can be conducted over land to land and fed into existing networks.

Protection claim 17, characterized in that no permanent concrete or steel structures impair the use of the river in any way or otherwise.

Protection claim 18 characterized in that it is not necessary for the system to actually have to swivel the mobile river power plants out of the fairway in order to be able to take advantage of them.

All advantages are retained, even if the mobile river power plants should become "stationary" by being permanently attached to the river bed or on the banks.