WO2009137907A1 - V-meg-0 magneto-electric circuit optimizer - Google Patents

Abstract

A compact AC magneto-electric circuit optimizer brings greater efficiency to electrical power supply in any operating voltage and frequencies below 1 kHz. The shell and internal structural components are made of nested rigid PVC electrical tubing. The internal tubing supports laminated silicon steel stator pieces with magnets attached on both sides of each piece and facing each other with the same charges. The stator pieces transfer the flux into the air gap between the rotor and the stator pieces. Each stator piece has a winding adjacent to the air gap. A common rotor operated by an external power source provides the kinetic motion to the flux in the air gap, energizing the coils and providing the magnetic coupling between the stator pieces. The power generating relationship is between each individual armature piece and the rotor. As there is no other connection between the stator pieces and windings, the V-MEG-0 optimizer acts as an aggregator of individual generators utilizing common rotational source.R

Description

V-MEG-O MAGNETO-ELECTRIC CIRCUIT OPTIMIZER

TECHNICAL FIELD This invention relates to permanent magnet devices that generate electricity using a common rotating source of kinetic energy. More particularly, this invention relates to optimization of electrical power supply through magnetic coupling of physically unconnected pieces of laminated steel inductors with coil wrapped around them and magnets attached to them in repulsive position. Number of such inductors arranged around one common rotor propelled by an external motor acts as an aggregator of individual inductors to generate electrical power.

BACKGROUND ART

This invention was inspired by the old Hindu Vedas. An electrical engineer specializing in power generation and a Vedic scholar, Satishchandra R. Hassan from Bangalore India, built a proof of concept of a power optimizing device, where the output from the individual inductors (75.75 W per inductor) is about 60% of the power input (126 W) into the motor propelling the rotor providing kinetic energy to the flux in the air gap shared by ALL the inductors. The aggregation of four inductors yields 2.4 times the energy input (303 W). This would indicate that the generating relationship occurs at the level of the individual inductor and the rotor. The energy conservation laws are preserved at the level of the individual inductor and the motor propelling the rotor. It is the aggregation that causes the apparent magnification of the input power.

In order to prove that this is not an isolated case, another prototype also with four inductors was built in Canada, with greater efficiencies that those experienced in the first prototype. A Finite Element Analysis was conducted and scientific opinions sought in an attempt to theoretically explain the processes and efficiencies experienced in the physical prototype. (Note: upon completion of all the tests and explanations, the results and drawings will be provided in a subsequent revision to this submission). DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION Technical Problem V-MEG-O addresses three problems: a) the global need for the optimization of existing electrical power resources; b) replacement of expensive to build or polluting sources of power generation and expensive and unreliable power distribution grids; and c) the need for alternative sources of emergency power.

V-MEG-O is a powerful but compact environmentally safe power optimizer in existing installations or a power generation system that can be placed wherever required. When interconnected in a sufficiently redundant mesh distribution system, a group of V-MEG-O devices, capacitors, ultracapacitors and batteries becomes self- sufficient power generation systems which eliminate the need for lengthy and expensive approvals and construction processes for power generation plants and high voltage transmission lines. An interconnected sufficiently redundant mesh system within existing or new installations also eliminates the need for alternative sources of emergency power.

Furthermore, when compared with other power generation sources, V-MEG-O is by several magnitudes safer, more convenient, compact, less expensive in terms of capital costs, and completely independent of the availability of any of the wind, solar, wave, hydro, hydrocarbons and other presently employed power generation resources. V-MEG-O is suitable for smaller applications ranging from 5 kW to 100 kW (as compared to V-MEGs based on Halbach cylinders which generate considerably more power from individual units but are also more complex and expensive to build).

While there are many patents describing power generation with magnetic structures, none is flexible enough to be employed on a massive scale in terms of continuous viable output, manufacturing, safety, compactness, sturdiness, and 'plug- in' maintenance simplicity.

The limiting factors that exist today for this invention are: a) the saturation limitation of the laminated electrical steel used for the inductor and rotor pieces; and b) the availability of the rare earth magnetic material which, being a commodity, is increasing in price as the demand is increasing. Both can be solved relatively easily. Technical Solution

The main differentiating factors between the present generators and the architecture described herein, are: a) the permanent magnets placed on both sides of inductor, and facing the inductor with the same polarity (in repulsive position); and b) the arrangement and separation between the elements of V-MEG-O.

Unlike any known inductor-generator, in V-MEG-O, there is no physical connection between any of the inductors. The elements in the V-MEG-O architecture are arranged so they act as separate inductors, and, at the same time, as independent sources of magnetic flux in the air gap between the inductor and the rotor.

The rotor then pushes the flux between the oppositely charged inductors into their respective coils. Once the current flows in the inductor's coil, that inductor becomes also an electromagnet contributing its flux into the air gap and closing the magnetic circuit between the oppositely charged inductors via the rotor. So we have the flux generated by the permanent magnets attached to the inductor, reinforced by the flux generated when the inductor becomes an electromagnet.

Furthermore, there is also a repulsive stiffness between the rotor and the inductors which facilitates the rotation and preserves the air gap. That would designate the relationship between the inductors and the rotor as that of a magnetic bearing.

Any motor or engine can supply the power to rotate the rotor, provided that the frequency and configuration of poles are matching the needs of the frequency and waveform of the output. The losses of that power source plus all the losses and gains of the induction process in a single inductor are the efficiency factors affecting the efficiency of that inductor. As an AGGREGATOR, V-MEG-O displays the power output equal to the SUM of all the inductors less their losses.

Magnetic shielding provides protection against the stray magnetic waves. V- MEG-O is a plug-in, fully sealed and cooled device, having all elements and processes remotely monitored using standard sensing devices and any predictive monitoring system designed for self-contained power plant (ship or aircraft). The cooling is achieved with helium or nitrogen. The design of enclosure, sensing, controlling, monitoring and cooling systems is obvious to those skilled in the art. Advantageous Effects

To summarize, it is the unique architecture of the V-MEG-O with its precise proportions and no other factor that accounts for the efficiency. To draw the parallel, it is like building a single-storey building on a piece of land versus building a multistorey building on the same piece of land. The efficiency relative to the real estate is much greater from the multi-storey building.

The device can be stacked and its inductor pieces can be offset relative to each other to create multiphase circuits in any configuration, if care is taken not to exceed the saturation limitations of the material used for the inductor and rotor.

V-MEG-O is useful as an optimization device to minimize power use from the Utilities or to extend the power capacity of an existing utility service or as a new stationary generating resource, which can be installed anywhere due to its small footprint, environmental friendliness, and very low cost of production. In existing installations, there is no need to disconnect from the Utilities. Any portion of the existing service can be optimized with V-MEG-O. Its starting power to the motor propelling the rotor can be supplied from a capacitor plus a stand-by rechargeable battery, or from the utility source.

Our understanding of the V-MEG-O arranged as a dipole The existing proof of concept having four inductors, is by default a dipole.

When we arrange the inductor pieces for V-MEG-O (regardless of their number) to act as a dipole, the rotor drags the flux into the oppositely charged "receiving" inductor along the shortest path which is directly across the "sending" inductor charging its coil. In a similarly charged inductor, the coil is not energized, but the magneto-motive force MMF moves the flux along the body of the inductor to the free and oppositely charged ends of the magnets stuck to the inductor thus closing the circuit.

The arguments may be that a great amount of flux is being lost in closing the circuit, but in fact, we tested all the surfaces of the magnetized inductors and found that they direct the flux excited by the kinetic motion of the rotor to the free ends of the magnets attached to the inductor which seems to act as a sort of a funnel-conductor with its constant and uniform flow of charges (somewhat like in Biot-Savart law). To help explain the phenomena here we need to refer to magnetic resonance theory. In 1924 Louis de Broglie was the first to theorize that particles were composed of a matter wave. His theories were confirmed by the discovery of electron diffraction by crystals in 1927 by Davisson and Germer, which shows that all particles are composed of an oscillating form of mass and therefore could be defined in terms of a resonant relationship.

We suspect that we saturate certain portions of the laminate when we force the flux back into the inductors thus inducing the resonance described in the General Theory of Magnetic Resonance Saturation by Tomita Kazαhisa, (Progress of Theoretical Physics VoL19. No.5(19580656) pp. 541-580 ISSN:0033068X) which states: 'When the fluctuation of the environment dominates (φ J) > σ J)), then we are led to the situation which may be called a generalized "Overhauser effect", i.e. the process of saturation works as an energy pumping. If, on the other hand, the static strength of the mutual interaction dominates over the fluctuation (σ J) > φ J)), then there results a phenomenon called ^{Λ^}Saturational narrowing", i.e. the process of saturation works as a local field modulation. ")

This second condition seems to be applicable past the magnet location on the inductor. It is interesting (and counterintuitive) that adding magnets beyond certain depth cancels the magnetic flux in the inductor. That points to certain wave geometry within the inductor, where breaking this geometry reverses the direction of the flux. (The results of further tests and subsequent observations that define the parameters of this invention will be described in the later documentation supplied as a revision to this patent application).

There are four conditions required for resonance to occur in classical Newtonian environment: an object or substance with a natural frequency, a forcing function at the same frequency as the natural frequency, the lack of damping frequency, and the ability for the substance to oscillate spatially. All four conditions are met in the material properties of the magnet and the steel laminate where we made sure that there is no adjacent damping material. The air space with its diffused mass will acquire the frequency of the force imparted on it — in this case the rotating force of the magnetic flux. This means that on the one hand we need to prevent the magnetic field in the device from penetrating the environment; but on the other, within the device's magnetic field, it means that the oscillation and force of the rotating electromagnetic waves is strong enough to travel back to the magnetized inductors and the ends of the magnets which have the inherent reciprocating natural wavelengths.

It is to be further understood mat other features and modifications to the foregoing detailed description are within the contemplation of the present invention, which is not limited by this detailed description. Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that any number of configurations of the present invention and numerous modifications and combinations of materials, components, geometries, arrangements and dimensions can achieve the results described herein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the present invention should not be limited by the foregoing description, but also by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A compact device for optimization of electric circuit and generation of alternating current, containing: a) An array of magneto-electric inductors each comprising a piece of isotropic laminated silicon steel supported by PVC molded structure; b) Each of the said inductors having a copper coil would around its perimeter; such coil corresponding in size to the required voltage and power output; c) Each of the said inductors having two or more magnets attached to it and facing each other with the same charges; d) An isotropic laminated steel rotor with laminations aligned with the said inductors; e) The rotor being separated with an air gap from the inductors; f) The rotor being salient pole type having the same number of poles as the number of inductors or having the variable reluctance geometry with a corresponding geometry of inductor face adjacent to the air gap; g) The inductors facing each other across the rotor with opposite charges; h) Each supporting PVC structure having grounding wire attached to the top and bottom plates; i) A magnetic shield at the top and bottom and wrapped around the perimeter of the PVC enclosure; j) A source of kinetic motion, being any type of motor or engine with the rotation frequency supporting the generating requirements, and which includes a starter/capacitor and a motion control device that assures constant speed relative to the required frequency and architecture of the generating device; k) A helium or nitrogen cooling system providing the cooling for the magnets and coils to prevent overheating of the hermetically sealed device; 1) All necessary sensors and metering equipment connected to a remote predictive monitoring system; m) A communication control and power control sections for the said device; n) An enclosing cabinet for all the elements necessary for the operation of the device, such cabinet being ventilated and sealed, and with an enclosed GPS tracking device.

2. The device in claim 1 being the AGGREGATOR of individual inductors is supplied with a single kinetic motion source for all inductors but has the power output equal to the sum of the outputs from the individual inductors;

3. The device in claim 1 may be arranged to generate any voltage or frequency up to 1 KHz and any power output, providing that the limitations of the saturation levels in the inductors and the rotor are respected;

4. The device in claim 1 which may be arranged in a single level or in a stacked configuration, with any number of inductors in a geometry supporting multiphase applications.

5. The device in claim 1 may be arranged in a mesh distribution network where each member of the network is interconnected with other members, batteries and ultra- capacitors for a self-sufficient and self-sustaining power system;