The present invention relates to an air energy production system and a production method, and particularly, to a paired air pressure energy production system and a production method applied in the field of gas energy production.
Along with acceleration of energy consumption of the world, and reduction of conventional energy reserves, global action of saving climate change caused by human activities, resource protection, energy independence and energy safety already become one of the major topics of development of human civilization at present. Renewable energy development and utilization gain high attention and constant effort of governments and non-government institutions of the world day by day. Energy in the age of post-industrialization civilization must be clean and sustainable energy of true sense, and no discharge of harmful substances is generated in the energy access process. However, in equipment production of existing energy methods of solar photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation, a large amount of non-ferrous metals, rare minerals and contaminative compounds will be used, and therefore, cannot become the clean energy of ultimate sense.
The present invention is aimed at providing a paired air pressure energy production system, in which a power device collects energy in a natural environment and converts the energy into mechanical energy, so as to achieve the aim of producing paired air pressure energy.
Another aim of the present invention is to provide a paired air pressure energy production method, which collects the energy in a natural environment and converts the energy into mechanical energy, so as to achieve the aim of producing paired air pressure energy.
The present invention provides a paired air pressure energy production system, comprising:
a paired air pressure energy storage device, comprising a high pressure air container and a low pressure air container, wherein the high pressure air container is filled with first gas, and the low pressure air container is filled with second gas;
a pneumatic compressor respectively connected with the high pressure air container and the lower pressure air container respectively, wherein the pneumatic compressor is used for transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container into the high pressure air container, paired air pressure energy difference is formed between the high pressure air container and the low pressure air container, and paired air pressure energy is formed in the paired air pressure energy storage device; and
a power device connected with a rotating shaft of the pneumatic compressor and used for driving the rotating shaft of the pneumatic compressor to rotate.
The invention also provides a paired air pressure energy production method, comprising the steps of providing a high pressure air container filled with first gas and a low pressure air container filled with second gas, transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container into the high pressure air container, and forming air pressure difference capable of reflecting paired air pressure energy between the low pressure air container and the high pressure air container
The present invention has the following benefits: according to the paired air pressure energy production system and production method, wind energy, ocean wave energy or ocean current energy in natural environments are collected by a power device (a wind turbine, a water floating machine, a vertical water turbine and a hovering copter), are converted into mechanical energy by the pneumatic compressor, and then are stored in the paired air pressure energy storage device in the form of paired air pressure energy.
The following further illustrates the present invention in combination with drawings and embodiments.
The following clearly and completely describes the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Apparently, the described embodiments are some of the embodiments of the present invention rather than all of the embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure.
As shown in
Specifically, in a feasible embodiment, the high pressure air container 11 includes at least one sealed cylinder filled with high pressure gas, and the low pressure air container 12 includes at least one sealed cylinder filled with low pressure gas.
In another feasible embodiment, as shown in
In the present embodiment, the intensity of pressure of the high pressure gas is higher than that of the low pressure gas, that is, the intensity of pressure of the first gas is higher than that of the second gas. The intensity of pressure of the first gas may be 0.1 MPa-100 MPa, and the intensity of pressure of the second gas may be 100 Pa-30 MPa. Further, the first gas and the second gas may be selected from air, or nitrogen, or helium, or mixture of other gases; and the mixture of the other gases, for example, may be a mixture of nitrogen and helium, etc.
In the embodiment of the present invention, a compressor known in the prior art may be adopted as the pneumatic compressor 2, and an aim of transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11 is achieved by the compressor, while the specific structure and working principle of the compressor will not be further described herein. The pneumatic compressor 2 may realize an effect of storing mechanical energy in the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 in the form of paired air pressure energy.
In an optional embodiment of the power device 3, the power device 3 may be a wind turbine 31, and the wind turbine 31 is connected with the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2. The wind turbine 31 is used for driving the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, so as to start the pneumatic cylinder 2 to work, and thus achieving the aim of transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11. The wind turbine 31 may collect wind energy in natural environment, for example, wind power on the land, on the water surface or in the air, and convert the wind energy into mechanical energy to be acted to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2.
As shown in
In the implementation manner of the present invention, a distance between the second wind wheel 313 and the horizontal wind tower 311 is greater than a distance between the first wind wheel 312 and the horizontal wind tower 311. Such setting has the advantage that the wind aligning torque force of the second wind wheel 313 is stronger than that of the first wind wheel 312, so that the horizontal wind tower 311 acquires a capability of automatically aligning to wind or yawing. The wind aligning torque force is wind power born by the second wind wheel 313 or the first wind wheel 312 multiplied by a distance from respective wind wheels to the horizontal wind tower 311.
In the implementation manner of the present invention, the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 both comprise a plurality of vanes 314. Specifically, as shown in
In the implementation manner of the present invention, in a feasible embodiment, each vane 314 comprises a plurality of sub-vanes which are sequentially connected from inside to outside. The plurality of sub-vanes are connected to a vane shaft 3147, the vane shaft 3147 is used for connecting the vanes 314 to the aftermentioned first wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 or second wind wheel rotating shaft 3131, and the vanes 314 are designed to be of a segmented structure, thus saving the manufacture, transportation and maintenance cost of the vanes; and in another feasible embodiment, the vanes 314 may also be integrally formed on the vane shaft 3147, which is not limited here.
Specifically, in a design scheme that the vanes adopt a segmented structure, a first sub-vane 3141, a second sub-vane 3142 and a third sub-vane 3143 are sequentially connected from the inner edge of the vane 314 to the outer edge of the vane 314; of course, in other embodiments, the quantity of the sub-vanes on each vane 314 may also be selected and set according to actual requirements, for example, each vane 314 comprises two sub-vanes, or four sub-vanes, or more sub-vanes, which is not limited here.
Further, please refer to
Specifically, taking a condition that each vane 314 comprises three sub-vanes an example, the length of the sub-vane at the outer edge of the vane 314 is the length L3 of the third sub-vane 3143, the length of the sub-vane at the inner edge of the vane 314 is the length L1 of the first sub-vane, that is the length L3 is greater than the length L1; in addition, the thickness of the sub-vane at the outer edge of the vane 314 is the thickness H3 of the third sub-vane 3143, the thickness of the sub-vane at the inner edge of the vane 314 is the thickness H1 of the first sub-vane 3141, that is, the thickness H3 is smaller than the thickness H1. In the embodiment as shown in
In the implementation manner of the present invention, as shown in
Specifically, a bevel gear 211 is connected to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2, the bevel gear 211 is located in the horizontal wind tower 311, an upper first wind wheel bevel gear 3122 is connected to one end, stretching into the horizontal wind tower 311, of the first wind wheel rotating shaft 3121, a plurality of vanes 314 of the first wind wheel 312 are connected to the other end of the first wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 by respective vane shafts 3147, a lower second wind wheel bevel gear 3132 is connected to one end, stretching into the horizontal wind tower 311, of the second wind wheel rotating shaft 3131, a plurality of vanes 314 of the second wind wheel 313 are connected to the other end of the second wind wheel rotating shaft 3131 by respective vane shafts 3147, and the upper first wind wheel bevel gear 3122 and the lower second wind wheel bevel gear 3132 are respectively in driving connection with the bevel gear 211. Under the action of wind energy in the natural environment, a plurality of vanes 314 of the first wind wheel 312 and a plurality of vanes 314 of the second wind wheel 313 rotate to drive the first wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 and the lower second wind wheel bevel gear 3132 to rotate, so that the bevel gear 211 connected to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 rotates under the combined action of the first wind wheel bevel gear 3122 wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 and the lower second wind wheel bevel gear 3132, and the aim of driving the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate is achieved.
According to the present invention, in order to make the bevel gear 211 rotate toward one direction, the rotating directions of the first wind wheel bevel gear 3122 wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 and the lower second wind wheel bevel gear 3132 are opposite, that is, the rotating direction of the plurality of vanes 314 on the first wind wheel 312 is opposite to the rotating direction of the plurality of vanes 314 on the second wind wheel 313, and the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 are in a counter rotating state. Such design has the following advantages: on one hand, the aim of making the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 rotate toward one direction is achieved; and on the other hand, when the wind turbine 31 is under the action of wind power, the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 with opposite rotating directions may generate counter rotating torque relative to the horizontal wind tower 311, such counter rotating torque is favorable for promoting the synthesis torque of the first wind wheel rotating shaft 3121 and the lower second wind wheel bevel gear rotating shaft 31321, and therefore, a symmetric acting force of the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 to the horizontal wind tower 311 is eliminated, not only may wind energy utilization rate of the wind turbine 31 in unit swept area be increased, but also wind energy collection efficiency is increased; meanwhile, horizontal counter rotating torques generated by the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 respectively are synthesized to be a single vertically downward torque at the top of the horizontal wind tower 311, so as to promote the start of the pneumatic compressor 2, and thus being favorable for converting wind energy into mechanical energy.
In the implementation manner of the present invention, observing from the left side or the right side of
In the implementation manner of the present invention, as shown in
Specifically, taking a condition that each vane 314 in the present invention comprises three sub-vanes (the first sub-vane 3141, the second sub-vane 3142 and the third sub-vane 3143) as an example, in the present embodiment, the shape of cross section of each sub-vane of each vane 314 is approximately approximately an obtuse triangle, and by making a vertical line towards the bottom edge by taking the obtuse angle of the obtuse triangle as a top point, vane bodies located at two sides of the vertical line are the vanes 3144 and the blade angle vane 3145, and the vanes 3144 and the blade angle vane 3145 are designed to be of mutually rotatable structures at the top point of the obtuse angle of the obtuse triangle, for example, the vanes 3144 and the blade angle vane 3145 may be mutually rotatably connected by a hinge; further, elastic members 3148 are connected between the vanes 3144 and the blade angle vanes 3145, in the present embodiment, the elastic members 3148 are springs, the elastic members 3148 are located at the bottom edge of the obtuse triangle and used for elastically connecting the vanes 3144 and the blade angle vanes 3145, and in a specific embodiment, the blade angle vanes 3145 can rotate by 0°-30° relative to the vanes 3144.
Please refer to which are shown in
Further, in the implementation manner of the present invention, in a feasible embodiment, the first wind wheel 312 and the second wind wheel 313 respectively comprise a plurality of adjusting blades 316, one adjusting blade 316 is provided between every two adjacent vanes 314 of the first wind wheel 312 and also between every two adjacent vanes 314 of the second wind wheel 313, and a linkage member 317 is connected between each of the adjusting blades 316 and one vane 314 adjacent to the adjusting blade 316. These adjusting blades 316 may receive and sense wind power acting on the horizontal wind tower 311, and transfer this acting force to the blade angle vane 3145 of each vane 314 by the linkage members 317.
Specifically, each adjusting blade 316 is rotatably connected to the vane shaft 3147. This adjusting blade 316 is connected to the blade angle vane 3145 of each the first sub-vane 3141 at the inner edge of the vane 314 by the linkage member 317. As shown in
In another optional embodiment of the power device 3, the power device 3 is the water floating machine 32, and the water floating machine 32 is connected with the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2. The water floating machine 32 is used for driving the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, so as to start the pneumatic compressor 2 to work, and achieve the aim of transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11. The water floating machine 32 is capable of collecting ocean wave energy in the natural environment, for example, ocean wave energy on water or on the sea, and converting the ocean wave energy into mechanical energy to be acted to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2.
As shown in
Specifically, each floating component 3212 comprises a driving main shaft 3213, a plurality of floating members 3214 are rotatably connected to the driving main shaft 3213, and in a feasible embodiment, a plurality of floating members 3214 on each driving main shaft 3213 are provided at two sides of the driving main shaft 3213 in a staggered way along the axial direction of the driving main shaft 3213, and therefore, the quantity of the floating members 3214 provided on each driving main shaft 3213 may be increased, and the ocean wave energy may be connected maximally. The rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 is connected connected with the driving main shaft 3213, the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 is located below the driving main shaft 3213, and the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 storing gas increases the floating capacity of the paired air pressure energy production system on a water surface or a sea surface.
Please refer to
In the present invention, the driving grooves 3216 are wedge grooves, the driving groove 3216 are in stripe shape along the axial direction of the driving sleeves 3215, the shape of the cross sections of the driving grooves is wedge, each of the wedge grooves comprises a deep end 3218 and a shallow end 3219, the groove depth of the deep end 3218 is greater than the groove depth of the shallow end 3219; the rollers 3217 are approximately in cylinder rod shape, and the diameter of the rollers 3217 is equivalent to the groove depth of the deep ends 3218 of the wedge-grooves, so that when the rollers 3217 are located at the deep ends of the wedge grooves, the rollers 3217 cannot protrude out of the inner peripheral walls of the driving sleeves 3215, and therefore, in a state that the rollers 3217 are located at the deep ends 3218 of the wedge grooves, the rollers 3217 are separated from the driving main shaft 3213, at the moment, the driving sleeves 3215 do not possess the capacity of driving the driving main shaft 3213; and in a state that the rollers 3217 are located at the shallow ends 3219 of the wedge grooves, each roller 3217 protrudes out of the inner peripheral walls of the driving sleeves 3215, the rollers 3217 are in contact with the driving main shaft 3219, and then the driving sleeves 3215 are capable of driving the driving main shaft 3213 to rotate.
That is, assuming that the pneumatic compressor 2 may be started only when the driving main shaft 3213 rotates clockwise, at the moment, as shown in
Please refer to
In the embodiment of the present invention, the floating members 3214 are spheres with cavities, of course, in other embodiments, the floating members 3214 may also be cylinders with cavities, for example, a buoy structure, etc., which is not limited here; the only requirement is that the floating members 3214 may be placed on the sea or on water to float on the sea surface or the water surface. Further, the link mechanism 323 is a plurality of connecting rods connected between the floating members 3214 and the driving sleeves 3215.
In another optional embodiment of the power device 3, the power device 3 is a vertical water turbine 33, and the vertical water turbine 33 is connected with the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2. The vertical water turbine 22 is used for driving the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, so as to start the pneumatic compressor 2 to work, and achieve the aim of transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11. The vertical water turbine 33 is capable of collecting water flow energy in the natural environment, for example, underwater or undersea ocean current energy, and converting the water flow energy into mechanical energy to be acted to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2.
As shown in
Further, a plurality of second movable blades 333 are also connected to the water turbine shaft 331 along the peripheral direction, the rotating directions of the second movable blades 333 along the water turbine shaft 331 are opposite to the rotating directions of the first movable blades 332 along the water turbine shaft 331, one end of the second movable blade 333 is rotatably connected with the water turbine shaft 331, for example, being rotatably connected with the water turbine shaft 331 by the connecting ring sleeved on the water turbine shaft 331, and the other end of the second movable blade 333 is connected with the rotating shaft 21 of another pneumatic compressor 2 connected to the water turbine shaft 331. For the vertical water turbine 33, a scheme of reciprocal rotation of a plurality of first movable blades 332 and a plurality of second movable blades 333 is adopted, so as to mutually offset axial torsion to the water turbine shaft 331, and therefore, adverse effect of the vertical water turbine 33 on the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 arranged above is eliminated. In addition, by adopting two pneumatic compressors 2, the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 of the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 is more rapidly transferred into the high pressure air container 11, and therefore, the working efficiency of the paired air pressure energy production system is increased.
In the implementation manner of the present invention, in a feasible embodiment, as shown in
Specifically, the first movable blades 332 and the second movable blades 333 in the present embodiment are respectively formed by sequentially connecting connecting a first sub-blade 3321, a second sub-blade 3322 and a third sub-blade 3323, the first sub-blade 3321 is located above the third sub-blade 3323, the second sub-blade 3322 is located between the first sub-blade 3321 and the third sub-blade 3323. An included angle θ between two adjacent sub-blades is 90°-180°, that is, an included angle θ between the upper first sub-blade 3321 and the side second sub-blade 3322 is 90°-180°, and an included angle θ between the side second sub-blade 3322 and the lower third sub-blade 3323 is 90°-180°.
In another feasible embodiment, as shown in
In the implementation manner of the present invention, the shapes of cross sections of the first movable blades 332 and the second movable blades 333 are all triangular or fusiform, so as to reduce the resistance of retrogressive water flow. When the shapes of cross sections of the first movable blades 332 and the second movable blades 333 are triangle, this triangle is an obtuse triangle.
In the present invention, because the rotating direction of the second movable blades 333 along the water turbine shaft 331 is opposite to the rotating direction of the first movable blades 332 along the water turbine shaft 331, the outer diameter R1 of the first movable blades 332 rotating around the water turbine shaft 331 needs to be designed to be smaller than the outer diameter R2 of the second movable blades 333 rotating around the water turbine shaft 331. Please refer to
In a yet another optional embodiment of the power device, the power device is a hovering copter 34, and the hovering copter 34 is connected with the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2. The hovering copter 34 is used for driving the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, so as to start the pneumatic compressor 2 to work, and achieve the aim of transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11. The hovering copter 34 is capable of collecting wind energy in the natural environment, for example, wind power on the land, on the water surface or in the air, and converting the wind energy into mechanical energy to be acted to the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2.
The hovering copter 34 comprises a vertical wind turbine 341 and a plurality of propeller wings 342 connected to the upper side of the vertical wind turbine 341, the vertical wind turbine 341 comprises a main shaft 3411, the pneumatic compressor 2 is connected between the main shaft 3411 and the propeller wings 342, the paired air pressure energy storage device 1 is sleeved on the main shaft 3411, a plurality of third movable blades 343 are connected to the main shaft 3411 along the peripheral direction, one end of the third movable blades 343 are rotatably connected with the main shaft 3411, for example being rotatably connected with the mains haft 3411 by a connecting ring sleeved on the main shaft 3411, and the other end of the third movable blade 343 are connected with the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2. Under the action of wind energy in the air, a plurality of third movable blades 343 rotate around the main shaft 3411, so as to drive the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, to start the pneumatic compressor 2 to work.
Further, please refer to
Specifically, in the embodiment as shown in
For the hovering copter 34, the aim of ascending the vertical wind turbine 341 to the air and hovering in the air is achieved by a plurality of propeller wings 342, and then under the action of wind energy in the natural environment, the third movable blades 343 and/or the fourth movable blades 344 will rotate along the main shaft 3411, so as to drive the rotating shaft 21 of the pneumatic compressor 2 to rotate, and achieve the aim of collecting wind energy and converting the wind energy into mechanical energy.
In the implementation manner of the present invention, in a feasible embodiment, the third movable blade 343 and the fourth movable blade 344 are all formed by splicing a plurality of sub-blades. The third movable blade 343 and the fourth movable blade 344 of the vertical water turbine 341 respectively adopt a structure of segmented sub-blades, so as to lower the manufacture, installation and maintenance cost of the blades.
Specifically, the third movable blades 343 and the fourth movable blades 344 in the present embodiment are respectively formed by sequentially connecting an upper fourth sub-blade 3431, a fifth sub-blade 3432 and a sixth sub-blade 3433, the fourth sub-blade 3431 is located above the sixth sub-blade 3433, the fifth sub-blade 3432 is located between the fourth sub-blade 3431 and the sixth sub-blade 3433, wherein an included angle θ between two adjacent sub-blades is 90°-180°, that is, an included angle θ between the upper fourth sub-blade 3431 and the fifth sub-blade 3432 is 90°-180°, and an included angle θ between the fifth sub-blade 3432 and the sixth sub-blade 3433 is 90°-180°.
In another feasible embodiment, referring to
In the implementation manner of the present invention, the shapes of cross-section of the third movable blades 343 and the fourth movable blades 344 are all triangular or fusiform, so as to reduce the resistance of retrogressive water flow. When the shapes of cross-section of the first third movable blades 343 and the second fourth movable blades 344 are triangle, this triangle is an obtuse triangle.
In the present invention, because the rotating direction of the fourth movable blades 344 along the main shaft 3411 is opposite to the rotating direction of the first third movable blades 343 along the main shaft 3411, the outer diameter R1 of the third movable blades 343 rotating around the main shaft 3411 needs to be smaller than the outer diameter R2 of the fourth movable blades 344 rotating around the main shaft 3411. Please refer to
In the implementation manner of the present invention, a landing frame 345 is connected to the lower end of the main shaft 3411, so that the hovering helicopter 34 is buffered while landing.
In an implementation manner of the present invention, as shown in
The invention also provides a paired air pressure energy production method, comprising the steps of: providing a high pressure air container 11 filled with first gas and a low pressure air container 12 filled with second gas, transferring the second gas in the low pressure air container 12 into the high pressure air container 11, and forming air pressure difference capable of reflecting paired air pressure energy between the low pressure air container 12 and the high pressure air container 11.
The method is implemented by adopting the abovementioned paired air pressure energy production system, and the specific structure, working principle and beneficial effects of the paired air pressure energy production system are the same as the abovementioned implementation manners, and are not further described herein.
It should be noted at last that, the abovementioned embodiments are only used for describing the technical scheme of the present invention instead of limiting, although detailed descriptions are made by referring to preferred embodiments, it should be understood that a person of ordinary skill in the art may perform modification or equivalent replacement on the technical scheme of the present invention, without departing from the aim and scope of the technical scheme of the present invention, and all of the them should be covered in the scope of claims of the present invention.
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201610084601.4 | Feb 2016 | CN | national |
This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/CN2017/073461 with a filing date of Feb. 14, 2017, designating the United States, now pending, and further claims priority to Chinese application no. 201610084601.4 with a filing date of Feb. 14, 2016. The content of the aforementioned applications, including any intervening amendments thereto, are incorporated herein by reference.
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Parent | PCT/CN2017/073461 | Feb 2017 | US |
Child | 16103696 | US |