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AssigneeStichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland
InventorsGustave Corten, Koert Lindenburg, Pieter Schaak
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Method and assembly for extracting energy from a flowing fluid. It is proposed to regard all devices of the assembly together as one flow body. In particular those devices on the upstream side of the assembly are set such that they exert lateral (horizontal and/or vertical) forces on the fluid flow, as a result of which flows are produced that guide fast fluid through the energy-extracting devices and guide slow fluid precisely away therefrom. The assembly includes a wind farm and the devices that generate the lateral forces are a type of vortex generators for the atmospheric boundary layer; more particularly they are horizontal or vertical wind turbines positioned at an angle to the wind.
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Method for extracting energy from a flowing fluid, in particular from (sea)water and/or wind flows, using an assembly of devices positioned close to one another, a guiding device of said assembly being set with respect to said fluid flow in such a way that as a result forces with a component perpendicular to the undisturbed direction of flow are exerted, such that fluid with higher kinetic energy or with lower kinetic energy, compared with the normal situation in which said force component is lacking, is guided through an energy-extracting device of the assembly.
Assembly comprising a device for extracting energy from a fluid flow, said assembly comprising a guiding device by means of which forces having a component perpendicular to the undisturbed direction of flow are generated, such that fluid with kinetic energy differing from the kinetic energy that is effective in the normal situation where said force component is lacking is fed through said device for extracting energy from a fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.