LU82209A1 - ENERGY BOAT WITH NOZZLE EFFECT - Google Patents

Description

Sheet 1 Mémoire descriptif déposé à l'appui d'une demande de Brev / et K. d'invention fournie par Monsieur Albert KÖNNEN, Ingénieur, Beaufort 114, route d'Eppeldorf

ENERGY BOAT WITH NOZZLE EFFECT

Technical device for the greatest possible conversion of the mechanical energies of flowing water into electrical energies.

The previously common devices for converting the existing mechanical energies in flowing water into electricity are in the usual order: water wheel and water turbine. With both devices, we are dependent on a suitable change in the flow, on a build-up of water volumes and not least on a sufficiently large gradient. The creation of these preconditions is associated with enormous costs and cannot be carried out on the same river course as often as desired, so that the electricity generation is mostly »/ within very low limits and has no relation to the energies actually available.

The new arrangement or device I have described, which does not make these preconditions necessary and can be assembled and removed as required, without great expense, can also be repeated almost as often as required and the generation of electrical energy in one and the same flowing water can up to considerable achievements.

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This device, which could be called an ’energy boat *, is composed of a special boat that is shaped in such a way that it bundles the flow energy as much as possible and directs it to a suitable power generation unit for power generation.

This unit for power generation can consist of both a paddle wheel and a turbine, which in turn transfer the rotational power absorbed to suitable power generators that can be mounted directly on the drive shaft of the paddle wheel or the turbine as well as inside the boat, where the transfer of the Rotational energy happens through suitable organs. As is sufficiently shown in the attached FIGS. 1 to 4, the boat is slidably attached with one or more ropes to stakes rammed in the river bed or on the bank or to a bridge arch or any other suitable device so that it cannot float away.

The flow vanes on the boat are designed in such a way that their adjustability means that the entire width of the water can be captured and used. The arrangement of the collecting blades and their shape create the nozzle effect that we need to increase the water speed. With this increased speed, the water flowing through hits the blades of the wheel or the turbine and thus generates the rotary movement on the latter as well as on the coupled generators. In order to generate the most favorable torque on the paddle wheel, it must be adjusted in relation to the water jet; this is done by adjusting the height of the paddle wheel. You can couple as many of these energy boats side by side or one behind the other.

When the water level rises or falls, the immersion depth of the energy boat remains the same and the energy generation and its height only depend on the current speed, since the attack surface of the wheel remains the same.

The paddle wheel should be regulated in such a way that it lifts slightly from the water level in order to switch off the counterflow as far as possible · ••••• Sheet 3

Claims (11)

1. Energy boat 1, nozzle body 1. Devices and installations that are designed as described above and have the purpose of utilizing the energies of flowing water, if possible without costly changes to the water or its bed. 2. Paddle wheel 2, turbine 2. Devices and installations that make it possible to bundle the flow energies according to the principles of a nozzle system and thus increase the speed of the water jet. For this purpose, the boat does not necessarily have to be completely closed at the bottom, the bottom of the nozzle can be missing, as it were, without fundamentally affecting the functioning. 3. Paddle wheel adjustment device 3, power generator 3. Devices and installations which, as illustrated in the attached sketch, make it possible to adjust the paddle wheel in relation to the water jet from the nozzle system. 4. Flow course 4, flow in the nozzle 4. Devices and installation that automatically adjust the immersion depth of the paddle wheel to the changing Ulasserstand by flood or deep water. 5. Adjustable side collecting blades 5, fastening rope 5. Devices or installations which have any lateral adjustment of the collecting and guide vanes on the nozzle system in order to guarantee the greatest possible inflow of water. 6. Generators 6, anchoring (pile) 7, fixed centering flange. Claims 1 to 7 include FIGS. 1, 2 and 3. The meaning of the numbers and letters: 6. Devices and installations which combine the drive system (wheels or turbines) together with the power generators on or in the float. 7. Anchoring the boat 7. Devices and installations that only need to be fastened to sliding elements, which in turn are slidably attached to ramming pegs, bridge piers, bridge arches or other objects in order to enable automatic adaptation to the biasserstand of the river. 8. Adjustment device for side collecting bucket 8. Devices and installations for the previously described ..... Sheet 4 Sheet 4 Purpose, which may also rest or be anchored firmly on the river bed, but have the nozzle system described (angular or round) and have one of the units described at the exit. Figure 4, numbers 1-7 mean: 9. Largest nozzle cross section A-B-C-D 10. Smallest nozzle cross-section a-b-c-d 11, power transmission between paddle wheel and power generator ^ Tilt angle of the energy boat to the water level. ö