Sub-Terranean Updraft Tower (STUT) Power Generator
AssigneePowerSILO Inc.
InventorRODNEY NASH
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AssigneePowerSILO Inc.
InventorRODNEY NASH
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A Sub-Terrestrial Updraft Tower-STUT, combination subsurface Downdraft/Updraft Tower, comprising an Inner Updraft Shaft and Outer Downdraft Shaft, housing the Inner Updraft Shaft, receiving air flow from air-inlets at surface level into Outer Downdraft Shaft. Upon reaching the bottom of the Outer Downdraft Shaft, air flow reverses in direction, inward and upward, into the Inner Updraft Shaft. Volumetric Displacement or airflow is induced and sustained via the injection of air and heat into the Downdraft/Updraft respectively; driving a plurality of sustained system pressure biases, and fed by temperature differentials that are initiated, sustained, and enhanced due to the configuration, orientations and functions of numerous STUT elements; creating coherent, accelerated airflow to pass through/within a ringed shaped, diverging converging Vertical Axis Vertical Airflow Nozzle and Turbine—VAVANT; airflow causes rotation of VAVANT, and summation of torque forces at VAVANT hub, shaft, gearbox, and power head, generate EMF, and electrical power.
A sub-terranean updraft tower power generation system, comprising:
A combination Vertical Axis Vertical Airflow Nozzle and Turbine (VAVANT) having a configuration arising as a result of the connection between said Inner Updraft Shaft and the VAVANT AirFlow Nozzle forming an elongated de Laval Nozzle outer shell, with inner Nested Converging-Diverging Semi-Ovular Ring Shaped Orifice, combining the shape and functions to divert or spread heated airflow to produce a 360-degree diversion ring of the vertical airflow stream, achieving the previously described Outer Ring of Performance with the VAVANT AirFlow Nozzle and Turbine, and supporting the combination Downdraft/Updraft Tower of the STUT process through the VAVANT Airflow Nozzle, decreasing total cross-sectional area, increasing the system relative pressure, into and through the VAVANT Airflow Turbine, located at the apex of the Nested Converging-Diverging Semi-Ovular Nozzled orifice, with a VAVANT AirFlow Nozzle and Turbine orifice of this system is a shaped, contoured orifice, created by the use of a combination flared valve nozzle ring that passes high speed air, at flow rates sufficient to the spin turbine, the actions or functions of enhanced pressure differential across the orifice, and the achieved pressure biases of the Upper Updraft Shaft, the Inner Updraft Shaft, and the Outer Downdraft Shaft, which create and sustain high Airflow and mass flow rates that are directly proportional to the overall input/output ratio of the system, manifest at the VAVANT AirFlow Nozzle Turbine orifice, this orientation has the effect of decreasing air volume. However the system experiences a significant increase in airspeed, according to the Bernoulli Equation. The Bernoulli Equation and Venturi Effect teaches that increased velocity is achieved at the choke point or apex of constrained fluid flow, and the resultant pressure drop associated with mass flow acceleration and deceleration of mass displacement after turbine blade and mass flow interaction. The VAVANT Airflow Nozzle provides the function of constraining mass, increasing pressure, accelerating velocity, and mass flow rates into and through the nozzle and across the VAVANT Airflow Turbine with decreased downstream mass flow pressure. The narrowing, diverging and converging of the orifice creates an orifice ring, harnesses the outer radius of Swept Area, and creates a Swept Area Performance Ring, that engaged at a specific, optimized, extremely high mass flow rate;
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