Air-driven generator

An air-driven generator for generation electric power from movement of a working fluid, the air-driven generator comprising:

• an elongate gravitational distribution conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• plural elongate buoyancy conduits, each buoyancy conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and wherein the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits such that a closed fluid loop is formed between the buoyancy conduits and the gravitational distribution conduit with working fluid flowing from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits fed into the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and working fluid flowing downwardly through the gravitational distribution conduit being fed from the lower end of the distributor conduit into the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits;
• a fluid turbine system fluidically interposed between the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit and the lower ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an upper chamber, wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit through the upper chamber, and wherein the upper chamber has an air vent for permitting a release of air injected from the air injection system and exhausted from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an Organic Rankin Cycle Generator disposed to receive air exhausted from the air vent of the upper chamber;
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• an air injection system operative to inject air into each of the buoyancy conduits;
• wherein an injection of air into the working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits will tend to induce upward flow of the working fluid in the buoyancy conduits such that working fluid fed to the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit will have a downward flow within the gravitational distribution conduit to actuate the fluid turbine system.

An air-driven generator for generation electric power from movement of a working fluid, the air-driven generator comprising:

• an elongate gravitational distribution conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• plural elongate buoyancy conduits, each buoyancy conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and wherein the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits such that a closed fluid loop is formed between the buoyancy conduits and the gravitational distribution conduit with working fluid flowing from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits fed into the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and working fluid flowing downwardly through the gravitational distribution conduit being fed from the lower end of the distributor conduit into the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits;
• a fluid turbine system fluidically interposed between the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit and the lower ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an upper chamber wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit through the upper chamber wherein the upper chamber has a substantially annular sidewall, wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits meet the upper chamber in an at least partially tangential direction with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the upper chamber;
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• an air injection system operative to inject air into each of the buoyancy conduits;
• wherein an injection of air into the working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits will tend to induce upward flow of the working fluid in the buoyancy conduits such that working fluid fed to the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit will have a downward flow within the gravitational distribution conduit to actuate the fluid turbine system.

An air-driven generator for generation electric power from movement of a working fluid, the air-driven generator comprising:

• an elongate gravitational distribution conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• plural elongate buoyancy conduits, each buoyancy conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and wherein the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits such that a closed fluid loop is formed between the buoyancy conduits and the gravitational distribution conduit with working fluid flowing from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits fed into the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and working fluid flowing downwardly through the gravitational distribution conduit being fed from the lower end of the distributor conduit into the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits;
• a fluid turbine system fluidically interposed between the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit and the lower ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an upper chamber wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit through the upper chamber and the upper chamber has a substantially annular sidewall, wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits meet the upper chamber in approximately equal non-radial angles with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the upper chamber in a plane perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis such that working fluid exhausted from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits will tend to follow an initial rotary pattern within the upper chamber;
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• an air injection system operative to inject air into each of the buoyancy conduits;
• wherein an injection of air into the working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits will tend to induce upward flow of the working fluid in the buoyancy conduits such that working fluid fed to the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit will have a downward flow within the gravitational distribution conduit to actuate the fluid turbine system.

An air-driven generator for generation electric power from movement of a working fluid, the air-driven generator comprising:

• an elongate gravitational distribution conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• plural elongate buoyancy conduits, each buoyancy conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and wherein the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits such that a closed fluid loop is formed between the buoyancy conduits and the gravitational distribution conduit with working fluid flowing from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits fed into the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and working fluid flowing downwardly through the gravitational distribution conduit being fed from the lower end of the distributor conduit into the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits;
• a fluid turbine system fluidically interposed between the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit and the lower ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an upper chamber wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit through the upper chamber and the upper chamber has a substantially annular sidewall, and wherein the upper chamber comprises a baffle structure within the upper chamber configured to reduce rotational motion of the working fluid entering the elongate gravitational distribution conduit;
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• an air injection system operative to inject air into each of the buoyancy conduits;
• wherein an injection of air into the working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits will tend to induce upward flow of the working fluid in the buoyancy conduits such that working fluid fed to the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit will have a downward flow within the gravitational distribution conduit to actuate the fluid turbine system.

An air-driven generator for generation electric power from movement of a working fluid, the air-driven generator comprising:

• an elongate gravitational distribution conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• plural elongate buoyancy conduits, each buoyancy conduit with an upper end and a lower end;
• wherein the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits are in fluidic communication with the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and wherein the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit is in fluidic communication with the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits such that a closed fluid loop is formed between the buoyancy conduits and the gravitational distribution conduit with working fluid flowing from the upper ends of the buoyancy conduits fed into the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit and working fluid flowing downwardly through the gravitational distribution conduit being fed from the lower end of the distributor conduit into the lower ends of the plural buoyancy conduits;
• a fluid turbine system fluidically interposed between the lower end of the gravitational distribution conduit and the lower ends of the buoyancy conduits;
• an air injection system operative to inject air into each of the buoyancy conduits, the air injection system comprising one or more air injectors coupled to each buoyancy conduit in combination with a source of compressed air coupled to the one or more injectors coupled to each buoyancy conduit,
• wherein the source of compressed air comprises a system of an alternating series of mechanical compressors and heat pumps;
• wherein an injection of air into the working fluid disposed in the buoyancy conduits will tend to induce upward flow of the working fluid in the buoyancy conduits such that working fluid fed to the upper end of the gravitational distribution conduit will have a downward flow within the gravitational distribution conduit to actuate the fluid turbine system.