Dam with transformable hydroenergetic arrangement
OwnerFrancisco J. Gutierrez Atencioinventor
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Abstract
Transformable hydroenergetic arrangement for a fluid storing dam having a conduit for directing passage of fluid flows therethrough, said fluid directing conduit being dually shaped as a frustum spatial geometrical configuration flaring from the center line of the dam to both of the dam's opposing faces with gated fluid flow controlling means provided along the center line and passing coincidently through the smaller transverse cross-sectional area of the conduit. A hydromotive assembly is alternatively positioned in combination with either flared portion of the dually-flared conduit. The hydromotive assembly includes a turbine runner disposed within a diffuser tube of a body having a flared extension surrounding the diffuser tube and terminating in an open end allowing evacuation of fluid flows.
Claims12
In a fluid storing dam having a main structural body having opposite faces and including means for directing a fluidic flow therethrough, said directing means including a dam body conduit having a dually frustum shaped spatially geometrical configuration flaring substantially from inside said main dam body to both said dam opposite faces to define a pair of adjacent dam conduit branches;
- the improvement comprising, one or more hydromotive assemblies, each said hydromotive assembly having a conduit, a hydromotive power unit disposed with said assembly conduit for alternately acting upon or being actuated by fluidic flows through said assembly conduit, said assembly conduit having a first open end for admitting fluidic flows and a second open end for discharging fluidic flows, said hydromotive assembly selectively alternatively mounted against each said face of said main dam body with said second open end of said assembly conduit joined within one said dam conduit branch in alignment with the entire said fluidic flow directing means of said dam to form a continuous fluidic flow path through both of the combined hydromotive assembly and fluid storing dam.
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