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NON-TRADITIONAL DEVICES AND METHODS OF OBTAINING ELECTRIC ENERGY
INVENTION
Patent of the Russian Federation RU2160850

DEVICE FOR RECEIVING ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT OF AIR IN THE ENVIRONMENT

DEVICE FOR RECEIVING ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT OF AIR IN THE ENVIRONMENT

The name of the inventor: Tsininsky Stanislav Viktorovich
The name of the patent holder: Stanislav Viktorovich Tsivinsky
Address for correspondence: 109542, Moscow, Ryazanskiy pr-t, d.82, building 2, apt.15, Tsivinsky S.V.
Date of commencement of the patent: 2000.06.08

The device is designed to generate electricity through the formation of a vortex in a vertically located pipe, using a temperature and pressure difference over the earth's surface. The device comprises a support with casing attached to it, made in the form of a vertical cylindrical tube with a funnel-shaped bell in the lower part, and a funnel that is fitted with a neck upwardly coaxially with the pipe and with a gap between the funnel and the surface of the funnel for sucking air from the environment. In the upper part of the pipe there are coaxial wind turbines with an electric generator. In the flowing part of the device there are three burners, one of which is located coaxially with the funnel, the second - around the periphery of the funnel neck, and the third one - in the lower part of the tube after the funnel-shaped funnel. The second and third burners are made each in the form of at least three nozzles giving a flame of a flame directed counterclockwise when viewed from above, along a tangent to the walls of the funnel and the pipe, respectively. The nozzles of the third burner are located in an annular groove made with a slope in the wall of the pipe. At the entrance to the said gap, an annular flap is provided with guides running through the holes in the support and connected to at least three pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders with a choke in the outlet pipe. This design of the device allows the reliable formation of an air vortex in a pipe rotating the windmill of an electric generator.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The invention relates to the field of energy and is intended to generate electricity using a temperature and pressure difference over the earth's surface, since it is known that warmer air heated at the surface of the earth tends to rise upward, its place is occupied by heavier air in the upper layers. In addition, in the cold season, the proposed device can be used as a gas turbine power plant. In addition, the device, made in the form of a mobile installation mounted on a powerful car, can be used to form local rain during a drought.

It is known a device called a thermo-air power station [1,2], consisting of a dome transparent to the sun's rays (with a crosswise dimension of several hundred meters and with the same height), in the upper part of which a windmill is installed in the vertical pipe. The air under the dome warms up with the sun's rays, rushes upwards and rotates the windmill with a coaxially located electric generator generating electricity, which is sent to the electric grid to consumers. Such facilities are built and operate in countries with a hot climate, for example in Spain [1,2].

The drawback of this device [1,2] is its huge size, which requires large areas and capital investments.

The second major drawback of this device is its low efficiency or inoperability in cloudiness and in the cold season, which is especially important for countries with a temperate or cold climate, including Russia.

Close on the technical essence and the achieved result is a device based on the use of a controlled, artificially created vortex of the type of tornado-tornado [3].

The device consists of a vertically installed cone-shaped pipe that is expanding upward, on the axis of which a blade compressor is mounted coaxially in its lower part, and in the upper part - a wind motor, coaxially connected to an electric generator. When the paddle compressor rotates, air is sucked from the environment through spiral channels, twisted clockwise, when viewed from above the pipe. These channels give the sucked air from outside the rotational motion that exists in the natural vortex of a tornado. Then the air enters the widening upper part of the conical pipe and rotates the windmill, which drives the electric generator that generates electricity. It is assumed that after the forced creation of the primary vortex by means of a vane compressor, the latter can be switched off and the vortex flow of the tornado-tornado type will self-sustain at the expense of the thermal energy of the ambient air, just as it occurs in natural whirlwinds such as tornado-tornado.

The disadvantage of the device [3] is the complexity: a power driven compressor and special spiral guides are needed to create a rotational motion of the air forming the vortex flow.

As the closest analogue, it is possible to adopt an apparatus for producing electric energy by converting the energy of fluid streams of the type of natural cyclones and anticyclones containing a shell made in the form of a vertical tube, guides located at the bottom of the tube to impart vortex motion to the air sucked from the environment , Located in the lower part of the pipe installation for the artificial creation of the primary vortex flow in the pipe, a wind turbine located coaxially with the pipe in its upper part and connected to a coaxially installed power generator, the tube being cylindrical with a funnel-shaped bell in its lower part, And the guides for forming the vortex flow are in the form of a funnel, which is arranged coaxially upward with the pipe, with a gap between the funnel-shaped funnel and the surface of the funnel, for sucking air from the environment, and for the formation of a vortex flow, the structure is supplemented with a combustion device and an air heating device located in Funnel, and for the adjustment of the air supply in the gap there is an obstructing mechanism made in the form of a shutter [4].

However, this device has a complex design, and therefore, and low reliability in operation.

The object of the invention is to simplify the design while simultaneously increasing its efficiency and extending the application possibilities.

This goal is achieved due to the fact that the device for generating electric power from the ambient heat of the environment by means of a controlled tornado-type vortex contains a sheath in the form of a vertical pipe, guiding at the bottom of the tube to impart an eddy motion sucked from the environment, located in The lower part of the pipe installation for the artificial creation of the primary vortex flow in the pipe, a wind turbine, located coaxially with the pipe in its upper part and connected coaxially with the electric generator installed above it. The shell tube is cylindrical with a funnel-shaped bell in its lower part, and the guides for forming the vortex flow are made in the form of a funnel installed coaxially with the tube-shell with the neck upwards, and a gap is made between the funnel-shaped socket of the vertical shell tube and the surface of the funnel to suck air from And for the formation of the initial vortex flow in the flowing part of the device are placed three burners, one of which is located coaxially with the lower part of the funnel, the second - along the periphery of the funnel neck, and the third one - in the lower part of the tube after the funnel-shaped funnel, the second and third Burners are made each in the form of at least three nozzles giving a flame of a flame directed counterclockwise at a top view along a tangent to the walls of a funnel and a pipe respectively, the nozzles of the third burner being located in an annular groove formed with an inclination in the wall of the tube, And at the entrance to said gap there is an annular damper with guides running through the holes in the support and connected to at least three pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders in the outlet pipe of which a choke is located.

The essence of the invention is as follows. When the fuel burns in three burners, a powerful stream of hot gases appears in the vertical tube-shell, rushing along the pipe upwards. Due to this, as in the known gas-jet pump [5], the pressure of the gases in the pipe becomes lower than atmospheric and the ambient air through the gap is sucked into the pipe. Due to the rapid increase in the speed of air movement in the gap, as it approaches the neck of the funnel (by reducing the cross-sectional area of ​​the flow), the air particles undergo Coriolis acceleration and are acted upon by the Coriolis force [5] directed perpendicularly to the airflow velocity vector, and this force causes an additional Rotational movement of the air, which is facilitated by the tangential arrangement of the second and third burner nozzles that give the flame of the flame, directed counterclockwise when viewed from above, along the tangent to the walls of the funnel and the pipe, respectively. As a result, a gas flow arises that rushes upward and simultaneously rotates around the axis of the shell tube. A whirlwind of the type of tornado-like whirlwind is formed, similar to the natural one. After the formation of the initial stable vortex, the burners can be gradually switched off, and the vortex will self-sustain at the expense of the thermal energy of the warm air sucked from the environment, as occurs in natural tornadoes.

Climbing up the tube-shell, the vortex stream rotates the windmill (turbine) and an electric generator that generates electric power directed to the electric grid to consumers, and in the form of a vortex flow exits from the tube outwards upwards into the surrounding space.

The invention is illustrated by a graphical material, in which FIG. 1 shows a diagram of the device according to the invention in longitudinal section, and FIG. 2 shows a diagram of the motion of air currents with a velocity V and the direction of the Coriolis acceleration a k and the Coriolis force f k , which causes rotational movement of the air and forms a whirlwind of the type of a tornado.

DEVICE FOR RECEIVING ELECTRICITY FROM HEAT OF AIR IN THE ENVIRONMENT

The device of FIG. 1 comprises a support 1 with a casing fixed to it, made in the form of a vertical cylindrical tube 2, with a funnel-shaped funnel 3 in the lower part, and a funnel 4 installed with a neck upwardly coaxial with the pipe 2 and with a gap 5 between the socket 3 and the surface of the suction funnel 4 Air from the environment. In the upper part of the tube 2 there are coaxial wind turbines 6 with an electric generator. In this case, three burners 7,8 and 9 are located in the flowing part of the device. One of them is located in the lower part of the funnel 4 coaxially with it, the second 8 is located around the periphery of the funnel 4 and the third 9 is in the lower part of the tube 2 after the funnel-shaped bell 3, the second and third burners 8 and 9 are each in the form of at least three nozzles giving a flame of a flame counterclockwise when seen from above, along a tangent to the walls of the funnel 4 and the pipe 2, respectively, the nozzles of the third burner 9 being located In an annular groove 10 formed with a slope in the wall of the tube 2 and at the entrance to said gap 5 there is installed an annular shutter 11 with guides 12 passing through the holes 13 in the support 1 and connected to at least three pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders 14, In the outlet branch pipe 15 of which there is a choke 16.

The work of the device is carried out as follows

With the help of pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders 14, using a pump, compressor or cylinders with compressed air or nitrogen, raise the annular flap 11 behind the rails 12 and thereby open the air from the environment to the gap 5. Next, a burner 7 is ignited from which the burner fuel is ignited 8 and 9. The flow of hot gases from the combustion products of the fuel through pipe 2 rushes upward and, as in a gas jet pump [5], draws air into the pipe 2 from the environment through the gap 5. Under the action of the resulting Coriolis force, [5] FIG. . 2, the air starts to rotate counterclockwise when viewed from above the tube 2. This rotational movement of air, as in natural tornadoes, causes a powerful sucking of air from the environment. The device seems to be pushing itself. After this, the burners 7,8 and 9 can be switched off. The powerful, upward flow of gas-like combustion products of fuel, and then of air, rotates the windmill engine 6 and the electric generator that produces electricity, and in the form of a whirlwind-like tornado comes out of tube 2, rising high up to the clouds.

If the ambient air temperature is high enough, then artificially created tornado whirlwind, like in nature, will self-sustain, generating electricity from the thermal energy contained in the ambient air.

The operation of the device can be stopped by closing the air access to the gap 5 by lowering the annular flap 11 by bleeding the working fluid from the sub-piston cavity of the cylinders 14, bleeding the working fluid at a slow rate, using the throttle 16 in the outlet pipe 15, From the tube 2.

In the cold season, when self-sustaining operation may not be possible, the burners 7,8 and 9 can work continuously, and the proposed device will operate in the regime of a gas turbine power plant.

Since when working in self-sustaining mode, the tornado whirlwind leaving the tube 2 rises up to the clouds, it opens the possibility in case of drought to cause artificial rain at a very low fuel consumption, if the humidity in the hot air of the environment is high. The water vapor entering the proposed device with air, with a tornado spout, will rise to the upper atmosphere, where the temperature is low, and the water vapor condenses and forms clouds that will cause rain.

The device simulates hurricanes, taking heat from the ground, and moves it upwards, so its use in areas with frequent hurricanes can prevent the occurrence of natural hurricanes.

The economic effect of using the proposed device will be very large, but it is difficult to quantify it at the present time.

INFORMATION SOURCES

1. Quraeshi S. Solar / wind power plants. INTESOL 85: Proc.9 th Bien.Congr. Int. Solar Energy Soc.

2.Rummich E. Elektrotechn. Und Maschinenbau, 1985, 102, N1, s. 37-42.

3. Fedoriaka A. Vestnik "Conversion", N 11-12, 1991, p. 14.

4.GB 2081390 A, IPC 7 F 03 D 3/04, 1982.

5. Savelyev IV The course of general physics, vol. 1, "Science", Moscow, 1970, p. 112, p.205.

CLAIM

A device for producing electric power, comprising a support with casing attached to it, made in the form of a vertical cylindrical tube with a funnel-shaped funnel in the lower part, and a funnel installed with a neck upwardly coaxial with the pipe and with a gap between the funnel and the funnel surface for sucking air from the environment, In the upper part of the pipe there are coaxial wind turbines with an electric generator, and in the flowing part of the device there are three burners, one of which is located coaxially with the funnel in the lower part of the funnel, the second - along the periphery of the funnel neck, and the third - in the lower part of the pipe after Funnel-shaped bell, the second and third burners are each in the form of at least three nozzles giving a flame of a flame counterclockwise in a top view, tangential to the walls of the funnel and the tube, respectively, the third burner nozzles being located in a circumferential groove made With an inclination in the wall of the tube, and at the entrance to the said gap there is an annular damper with guides running through the holes in the support and connected to at least three pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders with a choke in the outlet pipe.

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Date of publication 18.03.2007гг