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Blue power generation system
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InventorSamuel Sivret
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The blue power generation system includes an electrolytic system to obtain hydrogen and oxygen from sea water. It also includes a power generating system to supply electrical energy to the electrolytic system and an installation to recombine hydrogen and oxygen to produce clean fresh water. More specifically, the deep-sea electrolytic reaction generate gases rising into reservoirs at sea level. As water is depleted in the electrolytic chamber, a low pressure is created in the electrolytic chamber. The pressure of makeup water required for the electrolytic reaction is used to drive a turbine and generate electrical power. A portion of the electrical power generated is used to drive the electrolytic reaction. The amount of electrical energy created is a direct relation with the depth at which the system is operated.
An electrolytic system for producing hydrogen and oxygen gases from water comprising:
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By electrochemical methods: for desalination of seawater or brackish water
Hydrogen or oxygen: by electrolysis of water
Operating or servicing cells: supplying or removing reactants or electrolytes; Regeneration of electrolytes
Supplying or removing reactants or electrolytes; Regeneration of electrolytes: separating products
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This invention pertains to power generation systems, and more particularly, it pertains to offshore power generation in a deep-sea electrolytic installation. This invention also pertains to deep-sea electrolytic installation for obtaining hydrogen and oxygen from sea water and for recombining these gases to produce fresh water in areas of the world where fresh water is needed. The expression “blue power generation system” is used herein for convenience to obviate the need to repeat “electrical power and fresh water generation system”.
Deep-sea electrolytic systems have been known for some time. These installations use waves, tides and wind to generate some of the electrical power required to feed the electrodes of the installations. Other systems burn the hydrogen produced in a turbine-generator to produce their electricity. Examples of systems in the prior art are listed below.
US Patent Appl. 2002/0108866 published in 2002 by J. L. Bonilla Gritz. This document discloses a system for generating hydrogen which includes an underwater system with positive and negative electrodes and an underwater turbine connected to an electric generator which is, in turn, connected to the electrodes. The turbine in this system is powered by the generated hydrogen gas passing there through.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings; in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the preferred blue power generation system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a graph illustrating a relation between a depth of the system and potential electrical energy.
Referring to FIG. 1, the preferred blue power generation system comprises principally an electrolytic reservoir 20. The electrolytic reservoir 20 is installed and anchored at a great depth, under water. A preferred depth is in the range of 100 meters (328 feet) to 300 meters (984 feet) or more. Of course, the electrolytic reservoir is built to resist the head pressure that is found at these depths.
A cathode 22 and an anode 24 are suspended inside the electrolytic reservoir 20. Each of the cathode 22 and anode 24 are enclosed in a tubular shroud, which are labelled 26 and 28 respectively. The purpose of these shrouds is to prevent the mixing of the hydrogen and oxygen after these gases have been separated from sea water.
A first gas conduit 30 extends upward from the electrolytic reservoir 20 above the cathode 22 and shroud 26 for carrying hydrogen gas from the cathode 22 to a hydrogen storage reservoir 32 at the surface of the ocean.