953 results about "Hydro generator" patented technology

A miniature hydro-power generation system includes an outer housing and an inner housing. The outer housing may receive a flow of liquid flowing in a first direction at a predetermined range of pressure. The flow of liquid may be decreased by a predetermined amount of pressure and increased by a predetermined amount of velocity and channeled to a hydro-generator included in the inner housing with an inlet nozzle. The flow of liquid may be channeled with the inlet nozzle to flow in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Upon transfer of kinetic energy in the flow of liquid to the hydro-generator, the inner housing may rotate in the second direction. The flow of liquid may then be channeled back to the first direction and out of the housing with an outlet nozzle. The outlet nozzle configured to increase the pressure and decrease the velocity of the flow of liquid to minimized non-laminar flow characteristics.

An integrated, wind-pumped hydro power generation system includes at least one wind turbine generator device configured to generate output power for a common bus, and at least one hydro generator device configured to generate output power for the common bus. The hydro generator device is powered by water flow. The wind turbine generator device and the hydro generator device include corresponding local controls associated therewith, and a set of supervisory controls is in communication with the common bus and each of the local controls.

A simple system is provided to dramatically reduce the number of bird fatalities and injuries, as these are bird-kills that man should be able to do something about. Essentially, the inventive apparatus comprises one or more instantaneously inflatable mini-airbags on turbine blade leading edges which, in the “stowed position” are tightly conformally elastically wrapped around or juxtaposed to the turbine blade surface(s) and / or edges(s) thereby not affecting the blade's aerodynamic efficiency. The airbag(s) can be activated and restowed or recollapsed very rapidly, thereby not significantly negatively impacting the operational efficiency of the wind machine. In a similar manner, fish-kills or injuries taking place in the turbine impellers of hydroelectric power-generator facilities may be avoided (as opposed to ameliorated) using another inventive system and method taught herein, this one being primarily a collision avoidance system which does not require the problematic alteration of the turbine blades themselves.

A surveillance system provides a plurality of monitoring units placed in remote locations without access to electrical power. Each monitoring unit includes a self-powering source including at least one of batteries, solar cells, a hydroelectric generator, a wind generator and a hydrogen fuel cell. The power source provides power to surveillance components such as cameras, lights, infrared illuminators, DVRs, and transmitters. The power source also provides power to other components in the housing of the monitoring units such as temperature control, keycard access, and excess power made available at an outlet at the housing. Each monitoring unit wirelessly transmits video signals from each of the cameras to a hub or receiver that directs the images to the internet. An internet user with the proper access code can access the video surveillance and remotely control the cameras and other components of the monitoring units.

An energy saving and intelligent electronic sanitary seat comprises a hinge base, a seat portion, a temperature controlling unit, a germicidal device, a control unit, a sensing unit, a hydroelectric unit and a thermoelectric unit. The seat portion includes an upper and lower seat plates. Said germicidal device consists of a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) which can emit ultraviolet light, a ventilation system and a photocatalytic layer. Said sensing unit comprises of two infrared sensors and two pressure monitoring devices. The hydroelectric unit consists of a first and second hydroelectric generators provided respectively about an inlet and outlet of a water tank of a toilet.

An electric generating system configured to use the force of wind to drive at least one wind pump that pumps fluid in a hydraulic system for driving a hydroelectric generator. The wind pump has a blade assembly with blade boundary characteristic and pitch controls. The wind pump includes an inductive power supply. A standby-pump provides pressurized fluid in the hydraulic system when the wind is insufficient to power the system. An efficient and adaptable control system is employed, enabling the generating system to reliably provide power to an electric grid.

A mixing apparatus for mixing relatively low salinity fluid with relatively high salinity fluid comprises a housing having an upper end and a lower end, a fluid inlet at or near the lower end, and a fluid outlet at or near the upper end, wherein the relatively high salinity fluid in use enters the housing through the fluid inlet and is discharged from the housing through the fluid outlet. A feed tube is provided and has a first end connectable to a source of relatively low salinity fluid and second end for introducing relatively low salinity fluid to the housing to mix the relatively high salinity fluid with the relatively low salinity fluid to form a fluid mixture. At least one power generator is associated with the housing, and is driven by the mixing of the relatively high salinity fluid with the relatively low salinity fluid.

A power plant extracts energy from a free flowing motive fluid by means of a transverse mounted generator with its rotor extending downward into the flow. Runner blades with hinges attain the greatest surface area when the flow is tangent to and in the same direction as the rotor rotation. The hinges fold the runner blades to minimize the surface area proportional to drag when the blades oppose the flow. The generator with feedback control charges batteries, produces hydrogen fuel by electrolysis of water, or further couples to a DC motor coupled to an AC generator. Other features optionally perform such tasks as adaptively locating the generator in the maximum velocity flow, controlling and communicating the state of charge of the battery, or gauging and controlling the electrolysis process and communicating the fullness of the hydrogen gas output tanks.

The invention aims at providing an electricity generation ship capable of comprehensively utilizing renewable energy sources. The electricity generation ship comprises a photovoltaic electricity generation cell panel, a wind electricity generation set and a hydro electricity generation set, and independent photovoltaic electricity generation, wind electricity generation and hydro electricity generation can be carried out. The photovoltaic electricity generation cell panel, the wind electricity generation set and the hydro electricity generation set can be connected into a chip power grid at the same time for grid-connected electricity generation. When the hydro electricity generation set participates in electricity generation, a ship body is generally fixed, and a nose faces water flow. When only the photovoltaic electricity generation cell panel and the wind electricity generation set carry out electricity generation, the ship can run. Offshore wind energy, solar energy and tidal current energy are used for electricity generation to guarantee electricity in the initial stage of development of islands, and the ship can run to various islands and offshore platforms badly in need of electric energy to provide electric energy. Therefore, compared with other ships, the electricity generation ship is remarkable in effect of energy saving and emission reduction, and the emission of greenhouse gases is reduced to a large degree.

A hydroelectric generator having a fixed axle, at least one transmission axle parallel to the fixed axle, and a transmission system configured to rotate the transmission axle about the fixed axle and to apply a force to at least one driven member of a device for generating electricity.

A device for utilizing water flow kinetic energy continuously comprises at least one water pump, at least one flume and plural hydro-generators. The water pump is employed to continuously supply water from a water supply to an upper head end of a flume, and then the water will naturally flow from the upper head end of the flume to a lower tail end to drive the plural hydro-generators disposed on the flume to generate power. The flume has a length larger than a distance between the water supply and an upper head end of the flume. The water is finally discharged to a desired position or back to the upper head end by a water pump disposed at the lower tail end of the flume.

A distributed engine control system is provided. The engine control system includes first and second engine data concentrators. Each of the first and second engine data concentrators include a processor module, a signal conditioning module coupled to the processor module, a data transfer module coupled to the processor module, and a data bus coupled between the first and second engine data concentrators and a hydro-mechanical unit (HMU).

The invention relates a multipurpose wireless controlled water saving shower, providing a shower for water spraying, namely a multipurpose wireless controlled water saving shower that is self-powered, safe and reliable and has temperature regulating functions. The shower is provided with a body, a hydraulic generator and a temperature regulating device; the body is internally provided with a water flow channel, a threading channel and a water outlet panel, wherein, the water flow channel and the threading channel are insulated in a sealing way, the hydraulic generator is arranged at a water inlet end of the water flow channel, and the water outlet panel is arranged at a water outlet end of the water flow channel; the water inlet port of the hydraulic generator is externally connected with a water source, and the water outlet port of the hydraulic generator is communicated with the water flow channel; the temperature regulating device is provided with a temperature sensor, a keypad, a circuit board, a digital display, a battery and wires, wherein, the battery is the power of the temperature regulating device, the temperature sensor is arranged in the water flow channel and connected with the hydraulic generator, the keypad is arranged on the surface of the body, and the circuit board, the digital display, the battery and the wires are all arranged in the threading channel.

A power plant extracts energy from a free flowing motive fluid by means of a transverse mounted generator with its rotor extending downward into the flow. Runner blades with hinges attain the greatest surface area when the flow is tangent to and in the same direction as the rotor rotation. The hinges fold the runner blades to minimize the surface area proportional to drag when the blades oppose the flow. The generator with feedback control charges batteries, produces hydrogen fuel by electrolysis of water, or further couples to a DC motor coupled to an AC generator. Other features optionally perform such tasks as adaptively locating the generator in the maximum velocity flow, controlling and communicating the state of charge of the battery, or gauging and controlling the electrolysis process and communicating the fullness of the hydrogen gas output tanks.

The invention relates to a stator winding of an alternative current motor, and aims to disclose a slot number selection method and a winding connecting mode of unconventionality symmetric windings with a wide application range. To ensure that a winding outgoing line is positioned at one end, the relationship and specific requirements on the number of slots, the number of slots of each pole and phase, the number of branches and the number of phases are defined, the unconventionality symmetric windings can be wave windings, lap windings, integer slot windings and fraction slot windings, however, all the windings need to be connected in integral distance, and the number of wire rods of each branch distributed in each magnetic field position is the same. The connection method is applicable to stator windings of the alternative current motor, and is particularly applicable to pumped storage motors and stator windings of hydro-generators.

The present invention discloses a hydroelectric generator turbine flow guide structure. The turbine is arranged in a base, and the base includes an inlet port and an outlet port for allowing water to flow into and out of the base, and a flow guide passage for allowing the water to flow; power of the turbine is transmitted to a generator via a power transmission member, the base includes a flow guide base and the turbine arranged on the flow guide base; wherein the flow guide base includes at least one jet nozzle for introducing the water flow to the turbine, and the at least one jet nozzle has a diameter gradually decreasing along a direction from the base toward the turbine. The hydroelectric generator turbine flow guide structure of the present invention takes the most advantage of the water pressure and reduces pressure loss of the flow.

The invention relates to high-strength and high-toughness hot-rolled yoke steel with the yield strength larger than or equal to 750MPa. The high-strength and high-toughness hot-rolled yoke steel comprises the following components in percentage by weight: 0.015-0.030 percent of C, at most 0.15 percent of Si, 1.80-2.10 percent of Mn, at most 0.015 percent of P, at most 0.005 percent of S, 0.035-0.075 percent of Ti, 0.02-0.07 percent of Nb, 0.02-0.10 percent of Als and at most 0.005 percent of N. The production method of the high-strength and high-toughness hot-rolled yoke steel comprises the following steps: after molten iron desulphurization, converter combined blowing and vacuum treatment, pouring; heating plate billets; rough rolling; finish rolling; laminar flow cooling; coiling. The yield strength is larger than or equal to 750MPa, the tensile strength is larger than or equal to 800MPa, the elongation A is larger than or equal to 11percent, -40 DEG C impact energy KV2 is larger than or equal to 60J, the magnetic inductivity B50 is larger than or equal to 1.50, and all the parameters can meet the demand of high-strength and high-magnetic-inductivity steel for a super-huge type hydro-generator rotor yoke with high capacity per unit.

A power generating device for use with a plumbing fixture includes: a volute configured to receive water from a water supply pipe; a stator having a plurality of blades positioned around a circumference thereof positioned within the volute; a rotor positioned within the stator; and a generator coupled to the rotor. The volute directs substantially all of the water received from the water supply pipe in a circumferential direction through the plurality of blades of the stator to the rotor, thereby causing the rotor to rotate.

A sea wind-driven water-pumping energy-storage hydraulic power generation device comprises a wind turbine, an energy storage ball, a water pumping pump and a hydraulic power generation unit. The wind turbine is built above the sea level, the energy storage ball is built on the seabed below the sea level, a seawater inlet is formed in the energy storage ball, the hydraulic power generation unit is arranged at the water inlet for power generation, and the water pumping pump can discharge the seawater in the energy storage ball, which impacts the hydraulic power generation unit, into the sea after power generation. According to the device, wind-driven water-pumping energy-storage and hydraulic power generation are combined, the combined usage of the two energy sources is achieved, and accordingly, impact of wind-driven generation on power grids can be prevented, energy storage through the water resource can be fully used, and problems during current combined wind and hydraulic power generation are solved.

The invention discloses a cluster equivalent modeling method for small and medium size hydroelectric generating sets, and belongs to the field of cluster modeling and equivalent analysis of the hydroelectric generating sets. The method includes the steps of firstly, conducting regional division on a power grid, and establishing hydroelectric generating set-load equivalent models including the parallel connection PID speed controller model, the water diversion system elastic water attack model, the six-parameter water turbine model based on a comprehensive characteristic curve and the three-order practical electric generator model; secondly, recognizing equivalent hydroelectric generator model parameters and load model parameters through the parallel particle swarm optimization which is put forward. The obtained equivalent models meet the refined modeling requirements of the hydroelectric energy system simulation, the electric power system analysis and the dispatching and operation calculation to a larger extent.

The invention relates to a draft tube used for a hydraulic turbine outlet and a manufacture method of the draft tube. The high pressure recovery coefficient of the draft tube of an existing hydraulic turbine is not enough, and the hydraulic turbine can not stably work with high efficiency. The internal wall of the water inlet of the draft tube body of the invention is fixedly provided with 8-30 triangle leaf pairs in the circumference direction. Each triangle leaf pair comprises two triangle leaves which are symmetrically arranged; each triangle leaf comprises a long edge, a short edge, and an installation edge which is connected with the whole edge of the internal wall of the water inlet; wherein, the long edge is arranged at one side close to the end surface of the water inlet; the short edge is arranged at one side far away from the end surface of the water inlet. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, smart arrangement, cheap cost, and wide applicable range, and can ensure the high-efficient and stable operation of hydraulic generator units with different capabilities on all flux working conditions.

The invention discloses a dynamic monitoring system for an operating condition of a thrust bearing of a hydro-generator. The system comprises a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, an oil film thickness sensor, a host machine and a remote computer, wherein the sensor is arranged on a mirror plate of the thrust bearing for outputting lubricating parameter data such as oil film thickness, oil film pressure, oil film temperature and the like with the rotation of the mirror plate; and the data can be used for reflecting the operating condition of the thrust bearing. Data is exchanged between the remote computer and the system host machine by using wi-fi wireless communication; the host machine is used for carrying out high-speed acquisition under the control of programs; the acquired data is uploaded to the computer by the wi-fi network for displaying, storing and analyzing in the remote computer; if the thickness of the oil film of a thrust pad is excessively small or the temperature increase is excessively quick, alarm prompting is carried out to avoid a pad burning accident, thereby ensuring the safe operation of the thrust bearing of the hydro-generator. The data can be used for optimizing the design of the thrust bearing of the hydro-generator, and can be used as the original data of the expert thrust bearing analysis system.

The invention discloses a breakwater capable of generating electricity by using waves. The upstream side of the cylindrical breakwater is provided with a water accumulating structure; the water accumulating structure comprises two side walls fixedly connected with the cylindrical breakwater; the bottoms of the two side walls are fixedly connected with a reinforced concrete cover plate; the two side walls are provided with inclined upstream fixed front baffle plates; the bottoms of the fixed front baffle plates are fixedly connected with the reinforced concrete cover plate; the reinforced concrete cover plate, the two side walls, the cylindrical breakwater and the fixed front baffle plates form a water accumulating pond with a water accumulating structure; a support frame of the water accumulating structure is arranged in the water accumulating pond; the bottom of the cylindrical breakwater is provided with a drainage flow channel communicated with the water accumulating pond; the drainage flow channel is communicated with the cylindrical breakwater; and a hydraulic power generation unit is arranged in the drainage flow channel. The breakwater capable of generating electricity by using waves has a wave-preventing function, is provided with a wave power generation device, has structural stability and high energy conversion efficiency, and realizes structural optimization.