Energy source for operating watercraft
AssigneeFriedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
InventorWolfgang Arlt
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Abstract
An arrangement for charging a substrate reservoir for boats or underwater boats when traveling at the surface, comprising an energy source which is either a propulsion system driven with fossil fuels or a nuclear-powered propulsion system, and a DC current generator operated therewith; a reservoir tank for distilled or deionized water; an electrolyzer for conversion of the water from the reservoir tank with the DC current from the energy source to hydrogen and oxygen; a chemical reactor for production of a high-energy form of the substrate having an extensive π-conjugated system by chemical reaction by means of hydrogen; and a storage means for the high-energy form of the substrate produced in the reactor.
Claims20
An arrangement for charging a substrate reservoir for boats or underwater boats when traveling at the surface, comprising:
- an energy source which is either a propulsion system driven with fossil fuels or a nuclear-powered propulsion system, and a DC current generator operated therewith;
- a reservoir tank for distilled or deionized water;
- an electrolyzer for conversion of the water from the reservoir tank with the DC current from the energy source to hydrogen and oxygen;
- a chemical reactor for production of a high-energy form of the substrate having an extensive π-conjugated system by chemical reaction by means of the hydrogen;
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- storage means for the high-energy form of the substrate produced in the reactor (h).
An arrangement for electrical propulsion of boats or underwater boats when traveling underwater, comprising:
- a high-energy substrate having an extensive π-conjugated system (LOHC);
- a chemical reactor for production of hydrogen from the substrate having the extensive π-conjugated system;
- a fuel cell for production of DC current and water from the hydrogen;
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- an electrical propulsion system for conversion of the DC current to forward motion.
A method of generating energy in boats or underwater boats traveling at the surface, comprising the steps of:
- generating DC current with an energy source which is either a propulsion system driven with fossil fuels or a nuclear-powered propulsion system, and a DC current generator operated therewith;
- storing distilled or deionized water in a reservoir tank;
- converting the water from the reservoir tank with the DC current from the energy source to hydrogen and oxygen in an electrolyzer;
- producing a high-energy form of the substrate having an extensive π-conjugated system by chemical reaction by means of hydrogen in a chemical reactor;
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- storing the high-energy form of the substrate produced in the reactor in storage means.
A method of supplying energy in boats or submersed underwater boats by means of a high-energy substrate having an extensive π-conjugated system (LOHC), comprising the steps of:
- producing hydrogen from the substrate having the extensive π-conjugated system in a chemical reactor;
- producing DC current and water in a fuel cell from the hydrogen;
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- converting the DC current to forward motion in an electrical propulsion system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.