US 2006/0218917 A1Published application

Hydroelectric power plant

OwnerAfif Abou-Raphaelinventor

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Abstract

This invention relates to the construction of power plants of the type described in the Canadian patent no 2328580. Each of these plants is placed in a shallow pressurised pool. A number of these plants are connected together with the same pneumatic circuit, in order to use the same flow of compressed gas that enters in the first power plant and exits from the last one of the same series while producing growing energy with the same volume of gas that expends at shallower depth and displaces more liquid for a bigger buoyant force. These pressurized pools when connected together they give conditions of deep depths that permits the transformation of almost all of the potential energy of compressed gases at any pressure. In addition, these pools can be built on the surface, or in recycled ships where the transformation of compressed air produced by compressors, using the abundant and renewable energy of the sea waves is possible.

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A power plant comprising:

a number of hydroelectric plants connected in series, said power plant is driven by compressed air, each of said hydroelectric plant comprising
an airtight tank partially filled with water,
an endless chain rotating around upper and lower cogwheels and positioned inside said tank,
a plurality of containers attached to said chain at equal distances from each other,
control means to allow compressed air to be injected into each one of said containers in order to displace water out of said containers when each one of said containers is at the lowest point of its travel, wherein, after water is displaced out of said containers, each of said containers ascends towards the upper cogwheel due to buoyant force, where air is exhausted into enclosed space above water level is said tank and the container is again filled with water;
air supply means connected to said control means of a first of said hydroelectric plants,
means connecting said enclosed space to said control means of next hydroelectric plant so that air in said enclosed space is used to supply said next hydroelectric plant with compressed air.

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Application: 11/091,115Filed 29 Mar 2005
Published: 5 Oct 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

F03B 17/02
Other machines or engines: using hydrostatic thrust
F03B 13/14
Characterised by using wave or tide energy: using wave energy
Y02E 10/20
Energy generation through renewable energy sources: hydro energy
Y02E 10/30
Energy generation through renewable energy sources: energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient

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