US 5,685,147 A · Buoyancy and thermal differentials energy generator

Abstract

A system for extracting useful energy from two masses of matter having polarized hot and cold temperatures operates in its primary embodiment with a looped circulation passageway having a condensing phase, an expansion phase and s working generally gaseous circulating generative fluid or gas that circulates through the loop. The expansion phase of the generative fluid includes means to heat at least the generative fluid and a relatively standing liquid through which the generative fluid is allowed to buoy up and drive gas pressure turbines, in this case multi-wheeled flotation turbines composed of closable tube segments. The rest of the loop defines a return path that includes the condensing phase in which the expanded gas released by the turbine is condensed before being heated and re-exposed for expansion through said gas turbines again, in a continuous cycle. Net energy output is achieved by heating the generative fluid before it enters the turbine with heat imported from high temperature independent energy sources to create and/or increase the buoyancy power that it delivers to the turbine, while using low temperature sources to cool the generative fluid in the condensing phase.

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Dependent claims

A method of traducing into useful energy the buoyancy power of a circulating generative fluid assisted by a heating means in operative communication with at least one independent high temperature source, said generative fluid rising within a standing liquid and revolving a floturbine essentially composed of an endless sequence of closable tube segments supported by frame means including at least one upper and at least one lower rotor and having at least a rising length, said method comprising the steps of:

a) accumulating the generative fluid in liquid state within circulating means;
b) allowing to flow the liquefied generative fluid powered by its own hydrostatic pressure through heating means to be energized by exposition to the heat of said at least one independent high temperature source;
c) accumulating the energized generative fluid within a funneling inlet chamber or gas accumulator(38) arid within said rising length adjacent thereat such that the tube segments turn on the lower rotor to wall the accumulated generative fluid rising length therein;
d) closing the gates of at least one of said closable tube segments in said rising length causing the endless sequence of tube segments to move around a fixed path thereby generating useful energy;
e) opening the gates of the topmost closable tube segment of said rising length to release the generative fluid.

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A system including a floturbine for converting into usable energy the buoyancy power of a circulating generative fluid rising within a standing liquid part of a passageway therefore defining an upstream and a downstream directions, said system comprising:

(a) a closed-loop tube defining an internal plenum;
(b) a support structure including at least one upper and one lower rotors rotatably engaging said closed-loop tube thereon such that same defines a substantially vertical rising length terminated top and bottom by arcuate transition lengths in turn connected by a return length to define said closed-loop tube as substantially continuous and confined to a continuous cyclic path and motion around said rotors;
(c) said closed-loop tube as mounted on said support structure defining an inner side engaging said rotors and being defined by an endless sequence of closable tube segments;
(d) each tube segment having at least one gate with an open mode and a closed mode in which it closes off said internal plenum, and
(e) motive means for selectively opening and closing said at least one gate as a function of the position of the respective gate in said cyclic path such that there is always at least one closed gate in said vertical rising length to capture buoyant gas to drive the tube around said cyclic path, whereby the buoyancy power of said generative fluid fills said rising length, and at least one of said closable tube segments closes its gates capturing said buoyancy power for revolving the flotation turbine thus transducing buoyancy into useful energy.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Buoyancy and thermal differentials energy generator

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Buoyancy and thermal differentials energy generator

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Abstract

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