RS20180564A1 - Air movement power multiplier - Google Patents

Abstract

The air movement energy multiplier is a device that mobilizes and channels air pressure by means of the air itself, converting it into the energy of straight air movement, and then multiplying it into rotational energy, leaving it for further use and use.

Description

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Name of the invention: Air movement energy multiplier

In contrast to the multiplication or multiplication of some other form of energy, such as for example hydro-energy, I have named this invention of multiplication or multiplication of the energy of movement of air, "Multiplier of energy of movement of air".

As the very meaning of the first word of the name suggests, it is a matter of multiple (in principle an unlimited number of times) use of the same energy potential, so that as a final result of that multiple use (production for the sake of production) we get an increased amount of products in the form of energy, ready (with appropriate processing) for dispatch for consumption.

In this case, it is about artificially and intentionally caused movement of air (as opposed to movement caused by natural conditions and circumstances) with its prior mobilization and channeling, for multiple use, with the aim of its reproduction (production for the sake of production) instead of one-time use for consumption, which will be discussed more in the presentation of the essence of the invention and in its detailed description.

Technical field to which the invention relates

The invention relates to the technique of obtaining energy.

Given the different sources of energy, the techniques for obtaining it are very diverse. In addition to limited resources, the technique of burning fossil fuels and biomass leaves undesirable consequences for the environment, and can also lead to (according to the opinion of many scientific authorities) climate changes with uncertain consequences.

Unlike the previous one, the multiplication technique (which will be discussed more in the brief presentation of the essence of the invention and in its detailed description) which is based on clean, renewable and unlimited sources, such as air or water, in this case air, has no harmful and unwanted consequences for the environment, as well as climate change with an uncertain outcome.

Prior art

The existing state of the art is based on the one-time use of existing natural sources of energy potential, something similar to the case with a certain type of modern packaging for which the rule "use and throw away" applies. The amount of energy obtained does not even remotely meet the growing and increasing needs, both for production and final consumption. When it comes to the energy of air movement, the existing tennika knows various types of windmills, which use the wind as a spontaneous natural phenomenon with a very uneven power as well as an irregular and even rare occurrence in some places.

In addition, the technique of taking such an uneven power and an irregular natural phenomenon, such as wind, is extremely irrational and is reflected in the low percentage of use of the surface of the impact force of the wind, which is described by the propellers of the windmill. Instead of 5 to 6%, which is covered by three or four propellers in the existing system, by applying the solution according to the subject invention, this percentage is up to ten times higher.

The invention in question solves in a perfect way the issue of the uniformity of power as well as the constancy of its movement, instead of wind as a spontaneous natural phenomenon with all its aforementioned shortcomings.

The essence of the invention

The essence of the invention is to enable the multiple use or use of a certain amount of energy, artificially induced and channeled air movement, with the aim of increasing that energy, based on its multiple use, so that then, after its increase or multiplication, that energy would be shaped into the form of a finished product, suitable for transport or transmission and shipment for consumption.

Artificial mobilization and channeling of air movement is achieved by building a tunnel or channel of a certain length and diameter and mounting appropriate fans at the end of the channel, in order to push the air out of the channel and thus achieve the desired speed of its movement.

A shaft is placed in the middle of such a channel, on which a large number of energy converters of rectilinear air movement into rotational movement of the central shaft are mounted. With the appropriate length and diameter of the channel, and consequently the number and diameter of the converter, the desired ratio between the inputs is reached, ie. energy required for the operation of fans, which ensure the appropriate speed of air movement in the channel, and the output, i.e. the total energy produced by the multiplier.

The sources of this energy are unlimited and equally distributed at every point on the globe. An idea of the scope and size of those sources can be derived from the pressure of the air column on the earth's surface, which is about one kilogram per square centimeter.

The energy obtained by the movement of air is clean and inexhaustible, and with the application of the device in question (in my opinion) and cheaper than all sources known so far.

Description of the draft images

Figure 1. is a pictorial representation (part) of the converter of rectilinear air movement, into rotational movement.

Considering that it is an explanation of the working principle itself, only one quarter of the rotor is shown as sufficient for that explanation. The rotor of this converter (in order to understand its functioning) is comparable to the rotor of some of the existing and prevailing three-propeller windmills, in that instead of the propellers there are converter wings, which (instead of 5 to 6% of the current windmills, of the size of the rotor surface to which they refer) rotated by 45 degrees, cover up to 70% of the intended surface of the rotor.

The image represents the rotor of the converter placed in a vertical position with a graphic representation of the radial and circular division, which in the end shows only a part of the imaginary surface of the rotor, which is covered by only one wing. In those fields, a graphic representation of the wings is given, which refer to that imaginary surface of the rotor. Of course, the shape and surface of the wing, in practical implementation, does not have to correspond to the imaginary surface of the rotor, but the surface of the wing itself can be close to that surface.

The best idea of the position of the wings in the rotor is obtained when observing their row in the rotor in a horizontal position, as they are presented in the first picture.

Observed in a horizontal position, the wings are located one above the other, rotated by 45 degrees in relation to the straight air movement, in a radial position, as shown by the radial division lines of the rotor.

From the example shown, it can be seen that the inverter rotor is divided into five circles in which the rotor wings are arranged. In the first circle, closest to the center, 8 wings are foreseen, with the fact that only one wing is shown in the picture, which is marked with the number 1, in the second circle, 16 wings are overlooked, of which only two wings are shown, which are marked with the numbers 2/1 and 2/2, in the third circle, 32 wings are overlooked, of which only two are marked with the numbers 3/1 and 3/2, and in the 4th and 5th circle 64 wings, of which only two are marked with corresponding numbers. The first picture does not show the complete frontal view of the rotor with, as I called them, joint and inter-joint couplings, for the sake of clarity. For this reason, a special presentation of these rotor elements is given in the second and third picture, which, I believe, due to the simplicity of the whole device, will not be difficult to imagine in the whole system and its functioning.

Figure 2 shows what I have called a hinge joint. The connection of one wing from the previous circle with two wings of the next circle is shown. This coupling should provide both the spacing and the rotated position of the connecting wing. This position of the wings is determined by the places marked on the hinge joint, which determine the distance and position of the wings.

The incoming wing is marked with Roman numeral I, while the outgoing wings are marked with Roman numerals II and III.

The Arabic numerals 1 and 2 are the screws that connect the outgoing wing II, the numbers 3 and 4 are the screws that connect the incoming wing marked with the Roman numeral I and the screws 5 and 6 that connect the outgoing wing marked with the Roman numeral III.

It is logical to conclude that the width of the incoming wing, at the end of the wing itself, corresponds to the sum of the widths at the beginning of the outgoing wings, which is a matter of the very geometry of their distribution on the imaginary surface of the rotor,

Due to its location and the function it has in the system, the shape of the joint coupling is determined to be aerodynamic. In practical implementation, it is enough to just maintain and support its aerodynamic shape.

Figure 3 shows the inter-joint coupling represented by one (for aerodynamics) flattened shaft, with appropriate slots and openings for connecting it to the ends of the joint couplings through holes 7, 8, 9 and 10, marked on the joint coupling, with the aim of connecting the entire system into one unit. Figure 4 shows a tunnel or channel, with a central axis and its supports, through which the air flows and in which, at certain intervals, converters are mounted on the central axis, which convert the rectilinear movement of the air into rotation of the central axis.

These converters (rotors) are not shown in this figure for clarity. Figure 1 shows these converters (rotors) in more detail.

The central shaft is marked with the number 1, the main beam is marked with the number 2, the auxiliary and visor or positional beams are marked with the numbers 3 and 4, while the tunnel rim itself is marked with the number 5.

Figure 5 shows a possible layout of the fan that pushes the air out of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel.

Detailed description of the invention

The air movement energy multiplier is a device for energy production by multiplying the input amount of energy, with certain losses during the multiplication process, to amounts that significantly exceed the internal needs of the device, and even to the multiple exceeding of those needs in accordance with the built technical capacities.

The input energy of the device manifests itself in the movement or flow of air, in a tunnel or channel of a certain length and a certain diameter, in principle of unlimited length and unlimited diameter, which is reached by pushing out or sucking air in a rational way, using the existing system of fans, placed at the exit end of the tunnel or channel.

Through the center of the tunnel, along its entire length, one common shaft is placed, on which the converters (shown in the first picture) are fixed at certain intervals, for example five or more meters, the length of the channel for example a hundred or more meters and the radius of the channel for example 15 or more meters.

Even movement, i.e. air flow in the tunnel, as a mechanical form of input energy, is taken over by converters and converted into another form of mechanical energy, which is the rotation of the common shaft, which at the exit end of the tunnel converts that rotation into electrical energy using an electro-generator.

The ratio of the amount of this output energy (output) to the amount of input energy (input) at a given speed of air movement in the tunnel is dictated by the length and diameter of the tunnel and the number and size of the converters fixed on the common shaft and their arrangement, i.e. the distance on the common shaft, which ensures their most rational use. Greater length and greater diameter of the tunnel as well as greater number and size of converters provide a more favorable ratio in favor of the output.

This ratio of output and input energy comes from the fact that the power of movement or air flow is not consumed or lost along the entire length of the tunnel and that a longer tunnel implies a larger number of converters, and a larger tunnel diameter, as a condition of a larger converter diameter, ensures a more rational use of input energy. In this way, the converters take a proportionally larger amount of input energy via a longer lever, as the most rational way of taking the energy of air movement and using it to rotate the common shaft. Therefore, a certain length and a certain diameter of the tunnel, with a given amount of input energy, that is, the power of the fans that push the air out of the tunnel, for its movement, imply a certain speed of that movement, i.e. the determined power of that movement, which does not change even in the case of changing the length of the tunnel, as well as in the case of a greater or lesser number of installed converters. In the case of longer tunnels, it may take only a fraction of the time to establish, with the same fan power, the same speed of air movement in the tunnel, more or less independent of its length. Consequently, it is logical to conclude that in the case of longer tunnels it is possible to mount a greater number of energy converters, and therefore achieve a more favorable ratio between output and input energy in favor of output energy, and thus achieve the preset desired ratio.

The converter is a system of interconnected wings, which can represent the imaginary surface of the rotor, divided into the appropriate number of wings, rotated by 45 degrees in relation to the direction of air movement. An example of such a division is shown in Figure 1 of the drawing. In the example, it starts from one ring on the common shaft, whose radius is 1.5 m, and then from the first circle, of eight wings, whose length is also 1.5 m. Under the aforementioned assumption that these wings cover the imaginary surface of the rotor, we come to the conclusion that these eight wings cover an area of 21.20 m2 or 2.65 m2 per one wing of the appropriate shape. Each of these wings splits into two wings in the next round, so that in the next second round we have 16 wings, length ro 3 m, which cover the imaginary surface of the rotor of 84.78 m2 or 5.30 m2 per one wing of the appropriate shape. Following the front one, in the third circle we have 32 wings, also with a length of cd of 3 m, which cover the imaginary surface of the rotor of 141.30 m2 or 4.42 m2 per wing of the appropriate shape. In the fourth round, we get 64 wings according to the same principle, which cover the imaginary surface of the rotor of 197.82 m2 or 3.09 m2 per one wing of the appropriate shape, and finally in the fifth round, also 64 wings (since there is no splitting, due to a smaller change in the imaginary surface of the rotor and the same number of wings that cover it) and whose area is 254.34 m2 or 3.97 m2 per one wing of the appropriate shape shape.

In the forward way, we arrived at the total area of the converter wings in all five circles of 599.44 m2, which is the imaginary area of the rotor (without the surface of the ring on the shaft), which we divided into a total of 184 rotor wings, of different shapes and different areas per circle. Rotated by 45 degrees, according to the direction of movement or air flow in the tunnel, these wings cover about 70% of the rotor surface, which is far more than the surface covered by three or four propellers in a windmill. The given example of covering the surface of the rotor with wings is only an example and is not binding in any case, on the contrary, in practical implementation a smaller, but not significantly smaller percentage of that coverage is implied.

All wings are connected to each other with hinged joints fig. 2. and inter-articular connectors fig. 3., so that they form a single unit. In addition to this, the ends of the wings at the central part are specially stabilized with suitable wires, like those of suspension bridges and tied to enlarged and protruding rings, in front of the respective wings, on the central axis. Thus, we have eight wires that connect eight wings in the first rotor circle, sixteen wires that connect sixteen wings in the second rotor circle, thirty-two wires that connect thirty-two wings in the third rotor circle, sixty-four wires that connect sixty-four wings in the fourth rotor circle, as many as there are in the fifth circle, which makes a total of 184 wires, as many wings as there are in the rotor example shown in Fig. 1.

It is possible that it may prove necessary to install stabilization wires at the rotor outlet.

I also consider it necessary to mention that the bearing elements of the wings in the first round should be specially strengthened, since they eventually take over the entire power of the rotor and transfer it to the central shaft.

The hinge joint (fig. 2.) connects one wing from the previous circle with two wings in the next circle, ensuring at the same time the angle of inclination of the wing according to the movement, i.e. the air flow. All elements of the joint coupling are aerodynamic, which should be taken for granted. The wing from the previous round is marked with Roman numeral I, and the wings in the next round are marked with Roman numerals II and III. Arabic numerals from 1 to b indicate the places where the wing joins the joint. At the end of the fourth and fifth rounds, the appropriate adjustment of the joint couplings would be carried out, just as their adjustment is required for the other rounds as well.

The joint coupling (fig.3) consists of one aerodynamic (flattened) shaft with appropriate slots at the ends of the shaft, through which it is connected to the joint couplings so that the rotor of the energy converter of rectilinear air movement into the energy of rotation of the central shaft forms a single unit.

51.4. represents the subject tunnel with a central shaft and its supports, which are, of course, aerodynamic in shape, and which can partially serve to fix the tunnel, or in another term with the same meaning, a channel for the ground. Between these supports are the converter rotors that turn the central shaft. Given that this shaft runs along the entire tunnel, which as we have already seen can be longer than 100 meters, it is possible for it to break properly, which would not significantly affect the strength of its rotation as a whole. Considering the purpose it serves, the tunnel, that is, the channel, can also be composed of prefab elements.

Fig. 5. represents an imaginary fan that is mounted at the exit end of the tunnel and can correspond in dimensions to the diameter of the tunnel. The central part is left unfilled due to the lower speed it achieves during rotation, and therefore less efficiency in pushing out (extracting) air from the tunnel, which is one of the essential functions of the fan. By expanding the exit part of the tunnel in an appropriate way, it is possible to create space for a larger number of fans. It is also possible and desirable to expand the entrance part of the canal by splitting it into a larger number of canals, each with a smaller diameter, so that grates can be placed at the entrances to protect against the entry of birds and other animals as well as various waste and other objects. The sum of the area of the entrance openings of such branched tunnels should be larger, if not significantly larger, than the area of the entrance opening of the original tunnel.

If, in practice, there are more effective ways of squeezing out (extracting) air from the tunnel or channel, than the above-mentioned fan, with which you want to achieve the appropriate speed of air movement through that channel, then it is preferable to use such ways.

One of the variants of the multiplier could be a variant with a closed or covered central part of the tunnel with a diameter that would cover, for example, the first three circles of the wings. In this way, the movement of air would be directed towards the periphery of the tunnel, which means to the ends of the levers, i.e. on a longer lever, which would give more favorable results, that is, a more favorable ratio between the input energy or the energy used to start the fan and the output energy or power of the central shaft, i.e. its rotational forces. It is understood that the part of the covered central part of the tunnel, related to the rotor, would rotate with the notor, while the part related to the supports would be fixed. These would actually be two parts of the central tunnel, which would similarly close the central part of the tunnel and would resemble two separate drums, one of which would rotate while the other would be stationary, considering their function. In that stationary part, only the central axis would move, in fact it would turn.

The basic energy source of the multiplier is essentially the force of the earth's gravity, as is also the case with the hydropower potential, except that with the multiplier there is no dependence on the winds, no dependence on the water level of the rivers, on the light of the sun, on oil, coal, gas and other limiting factors. In other words, unlimited amounts of clean, and possibly the cheapest energy of all existing sources. The need for remote transmission is excluded, or at least to a much lesser extent than the existing needs, considering the possibility of production at every point of the globe in unlimited quantities.

Method of applying the invention

The only or almost the only and exclusive way of industrial or any other application of the subject invention is to enable the production of electricity of the appropriate power with the help of an electric generator, in order to satisfy both the industrial and other needs of people on Earth.

Claims (1)

PATENT APPLICATION In this application for the recognition of a patent, a device is described, which converts the force of air pressure into the energy of its rectilinear movement, and then, in multiplied quantities, into rotational energy, under the name "Multiplier of the energy of air movement". I ask that the invention of the mentioned device be recognized as a patent under the name mentioned above.