US 5,512,787 A · Facility for refueling of clean air vehicles/marine craft and power generation

Abstract

A facility for the generation of electrical power and products for the refueling of clean air vehicles (CAV's) and marine craft and for use by the facility and/or general market. A host of electrical power generation devices including solar panels, solar collectors, wave action generators, reverse osmosis water purification apparatus, electrolizers, hydrogen/oxygen purifiers and compressors, storage units, fuel cells, AC/DC motors and generators and the various connectors, gauges and networks used for interconnecting and dispensing the products of a combined source system are used jointly and severally in a unique siting about an elevated roadway or railway. The idealized site for this combined system is a bridge, or other elevated structures such as lock superstructures, dam faces and otherwise towering facilities. The siting structure is most desirably located adjacent a water source, be it a river, bay, tidal estuary or the like. In addition to the generation of DC electrical power, gaseous products such as may be marketed for their intrinsic value or used in the production of additional power via fuel cell operation are also marketed or used/consumed on site. Unique improvements are made in wind generators, a tidal barge generation system and a wave air generator.

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Dependent claims

A site system for provision of electrical and fuel products for site servicing of vehicles and marine craft comprising in combination:

an elevated structure for providing a substantial base for said site and having an upper utility area and a lower utility area, said upper and said lower utility areas demarcated and defined by a roadway used by vehicles;
at least one electrical generation subsystem selected from a group consisting of a solar panel collector, a wind generator, a barge and a water power generation means, said subsystem located in either or both said upper or said lower utility areas;
conduction means for transferring electrical output of said subsystem to electrolysis means, said conduction means including switching means for shunting said electrical output to said electrolysis means or to electrical power storage means;
water supply means;
said electrolysis means for production of gaseous products while in electrical communication with said conduction means and receptive of water from said water supply means;
compression and storage means for receiving said gaseous products;
a multi-service station network for tapping into said compression and storage means, using said gaseous products for generating electrical power and, upon demand, for dispensing pure hydrogen and oxygen product;
and
an electric conversion means for generating alternating current power.

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Facility for refueling of clean air vehicles/marine craft and power generation

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Facility for refueling of clean air vehicles/marine craft and power generation

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Abstract

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