Building With Energy Recovery and Storage Systems
OwnerJay Stephen Kaufmaninventor
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Abstract
A building energy recovery system having at least one wind drive mounted to the building structure proximate to the roof junction, a generator and an electrical output. The wind drive includes a radial flow wind turbine having a rotor, a rotatable shaft of the rotor, an open windward facing air intake duct, and a side facing air discharge opening disposed perpendicular to the rotatable shaft of the rotor. The intake duct is in communication with a wind blowing toward the front wall and the discharge opening is in communication with a wake region adjacent to the discharge opening and induced by a wind flowing behind the roof junction
Claims18
A building comprising:
- a building structure comprising at least a front wall and a roof forming a roof junction with said front wall;
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- an energy recovery system comprising:
- at least one wind drive mounted to said building structure proximate to said roof junction between said roof and said front wall, said at least one wind drive comprising a radial inflow wind turbine comprising:
- a radial inflow rotor;
- a rotatable shaft of said rotor;
- an open windward facing air intake duct;
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- a side facing air discharge opening disposed in a plane substantially perpendicular to said rotatable shaft of said rotor;
- a wind generator in mechanical communication with said wind turbine of said at least one wind drive;
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- an electrical output in electrical communication with said wind generator;
- wherein said intake duct is in communication with a wind blowing toward said front wall and said discharge opening is in communication with a wake region adjacent to said discharge opening and induced by a wind flowing behind said roof junction.
An energy storage system comprising:
- at least one compressor in fluid communication with at least one source of air;
- a combustor in fluid communication with said at least one compressor;
- a source of fuel in fluid communication with said combustor;
- a turbine in fluid communication with said combustor and in mechanical communication with a rotatable shaft;
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- a reserve generator in mechanical communication with, and driven by, said rotatable shaft, wherein said turbine generator comprises an electrical output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.