Patent Grant
11279453
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This is an invention developed and researched by a group of practitioners (retired Taiwan seafarers and first-class chief engineers) since 41 years ago.
The invention relates to a wind-water machine because it can easily increase the water pressure, greatly increase the flow speed of wind-water flow and amplify the output kinetic energy thousands of times.
With this powerful power, it can be used as the main engine power Besides, it can also eliminate water resistance, maintain the balance of the ship, enable quick control of the movement of the ship, and reduce the use of the ship's draft. Furthermore, because it can greatly increase the flow speed of the water flow, it can make the hydroelectric generator produce more than one hundred times of the electricity than a conventional device! Accordingly, it can even prevent the Mississippi River from flooding in the future because the speed of the water flow of the river can be accelerated for dozens of times.
The crew can thus achieve easy, super fuel efficient, super high speed and super high safety navigation. And make the world of tomorrow better.
Conventionally, engines are made according to the power application formulas of F=MA/E=MC2.
An aircraft engine uses high-grade aircraft fuel is in a very high-temperature environment, uses high-temperature-resistant precision machinery, operates at a super high speed (e.g. 40,000 revolutions per minute), and sprays air backward at the highest speed possible.
For the propeller of the ship, although the diameter of the propeller is maximized to discharge the maximum water flow, in order to prevent cavitation, it can only push the water backward at a low speed of only about 100 revolutions per minute. Therefore, although the mass of water flow propelled by a ship is 775 times heavier than that of air, the flow rate of water flow is 1/3000 than that of air. Therefore, although the marine machinery does not need to be as precise as an aircraft, nor does it need to withstand high temperatures, the method of using the power for the ship is also extremely poor.
As we all know, due to the huge water-resistance of water flow, rifle bullets with huge kinetic energy fired in the water can only freely fall to the ground after shooting for one meter in the water.
There is another phenomenon that has clearly aroused the interest in studying wind-water machines. When a person seals the air inlet of a massage bathtub, the water flow in the bathtub is almost still! After opening the seal, the water flow in the massages bathtub will hit the human body at a high speed. Adding air alone makes the water flow quickly and the kinetic energy increases dramatically. If the use of compressed air and/or high-pressure water column is to pressurize the water flow, the effect of amplifying kinetic energy is bound to be obtained.
Traditionally, when ships use propellers or water jets, cavitation must be avoided to prevent the water in front of the propeller from not being fully supplied to the propeller. When the saturated vapor pressure of the water supply pressure decreases, the water evaporates into bubbles. Once the bubble bursts, a water hammer will occur, which will produce an impact force of 49 mPa, which will seriously damage the surface of the propeller blade. Due to E=MC2, currently, the ship can only increase the diameter of the propeller, and the speed of the main engine cannot be increased under the limitation of the pumping/discharging speed C2. At present, the mass (M) has increased to the maximum. Since the speed C cannot be increased, the power output efficiency of the ship is extremely poor and limited.
When Mr. Lu Cheng Chung, one of the applicants, took over a new ship “Asia Breeze”, the ship was hit by three super typhoons on one route 40 degrees of North Atlantic in one week. After inspection, it was found that all high-pressure elastic steel plates on the waterline were recessed and deformed, thereby exposing the ribs. However, the steel plate below the waterline was not injured as new. Later, through observation formulas and experimental data of ship models, it was found that when a super typhoon carried raindrop falling at a high altitude, the extremely high energy generated by the super-typhoon hit the hull at an extremely high speed. The hull steel plate below the waterline is only affected by the waves, at normal water speeds, its strength is not great enough to deform the hull. Therefore, we intentionally add materials to mimic their functions. Not only high-pressure compressed air is used, but also high-pressure water column spray is used to impinge on the water flow several times so that the entrained wind-water flow is pushed outward with super high speed with huge kinetic energy. Compared with the case where the low-speed water current is usually used as power, the fuel rate can be reduced to a value below 2%, and when the flow speed is increased for ten times, the energy can be increased for hundreds of times.
Conventionally, steering gear has been used on ships to steer the ship's direction until recently. But it is useful only when ship sailing at high speed. When the ship is at medium or low speed, the situation of out of control is obvious. Therefore, when entering any port, almost all ships need to be escorted by the tugboat to maintain the route. Even when a dangerous chemical ship was alongside in port, the applicant encountered sudden strong offshore wind several times, and the mooring ropes broke and fail to hold the ship. There are no ports in the world that have enough tugboats to rescue all in-port ships in this kind of situation. For safety, therefore, every ship needs the ability to “move left/right laterally” by itself. To make matters worse, the use of recently steering gear can cause the ship to tilt heavily. Therefore, many heavily loaded ships and even passenger ships capsized in the typhoon because they needed to turn at the turning point of the shipping route. Without high speed, the ship has no steering power, so it cannot maintain the route to sail, and it cannot turn fast to face the typhoon wind direction, which causes great danger to the life of the crews and passengers. Accordingly, many Taiwan captains & chief engineers felt calling 41 years ago and finally come up with a solution.
All in all, it is necessary to create a wind-water machinery to change the traditional method of kinetic energy use. For current ships that cannot increase the displacement of the propeller, the present invention provides a bell mouth to reduce the outlet diameter and flow to increase the outlet pressure and flow speed, so that the water flow is increased to high pressure and high speed, surrounded by the tube casing, and accelerated in the air environment, using air and various compressed air and/or high-pressure water column or sprayer, and multiple high-pressure water impacts, so as to be carried thereby to become a super-high-speed wind-water stream sprayed out, and obtain several thousand times of energy. This is just like the propeller plane entering the jet age. Trying to increase the fluid discharge speed as much as possible, and it has a huge kinetic energy impact, which makes the aircraft enter the jet era, and even into the supersonic era. The high-pressure wind-water column is impacted by the high-pressure water jet in the air in the sleeve, and is sprayed outward at high speed, and is injected into the air (or water stream). Due to the incompressible nature of water, it is easy to increase the pressure (flow rate) by a factor of one hundred, and obtain ultra-high energy (M C2 kinetic energy), and then use high-pressure compressed air (air velocity is 3000 times than liquid velocity), so the high-speed wind-water flow can be ejected from the sleeve at a very high speed, forming thousands of times of the kinetic energy. This particularly cheap and huge clean energy is what the inventors want to provide by the present invention.
The present invention aims to provide the wind-water machine and its various uses.
Each wind-water machine uses one or more air, compressed air, and high-pressure high-speed water flow in the sleeve to impact outwards. Based on the kinetic energy formula: F=MA/E=C2, it is able to obtain a cheap, huge, and clean kinetic energy of the square times of its speed and uses it in all places requiring kinetic energy, such as:
1. the main engine used for the main propulsion systems;
2. the surfing system, since the wind-water machine power hits the water flow in front of the bow of the ship so that the resultant current force can be directed to the bottom or both sides of the ship without hitting the hull;
3. a steering gear, so that it can quickly control the direction of the ship;
4. a balancing system to avoid rolling and/or pitching anytime;
5. to reduce the draught of ships not only for save fuel consumption, but also for safety, so that ships in the world will never overturn again in the future;
6. to let the current hydroelectric generator get the power generated by the square multiple of the extra flow rate due to the increase in the speed of the incoming water; and
7. to let the big rivers of the world never flood again by having the water flow fast for more than ten times than usual.
Thereby the wind-water machine of the present invention can provide ultra-safe, high-speed, comfortable, and super-powerful, fuel-efficient navigation. In order to achieve the above and other objects, the present invention provides a wind-water machine set for ship. The wind-water machine set in a ship includes a master control center, one or more propulsion systems, one or more surfing systems, one or more steering control systems, one or more balancing systems, and one or more draft reducing systems.
The master control center is located at the inner side of the ship. The propulsion system is in the ship and is connected to the master control center for supplying a small number of water flows and serving as a power system. The surfing system is located at the bottom sea chest of the ship and is connected to the master control center and the propulsion system. The surfing system has a plurality of water acceleration tube and is capable of pumping water from a bow sea chest of the ship and spraying water from a ship bow to a ship bottom, portside and starboard side. The steering control system is located at the outer side of the ship and is connected to the master control center to replace a steering engine so that the ship can be manipulated more easily. The balancing system is located at the outer side of the ship and is connected to the master control center to keep the ship in balance without swaying rolling and pitching. The draft reducing system is located at the outer side of the ship and is connected to the master control center so that the ship does not require ballast water and can even float in the air when water tanks had enough water for ultra-high-speed jet out.
In the exemplary embodiment, the named “typhoon ship” is also provided with an air injection pipes, which is arranged at the stern end of the ship to eliminate the pinch and pull of stern trail caused by the high-speed sailing of the ship.
The propulsion system has at least one bell mouth or at least one sleeve for reducing an outlet diameter of water flow, and then spraying impinging on the water flow one or more times, and using air, compressed air of various pressures, and a high-pressure water splash, in order to prolong an action time of a counterforce, to spray the wind-water flow backward at an ultra-high-speed, and to obtain maximum propulsion energy.
In an exemplary embodiment, the wind-water machine set of the present invention may also be applied to a hydroelectric generator. The wind-water machine set is settled in front of the hydroelectric generator. A bell mouth is used to reduce water volume and increase outlet pressure and speed. A sleeve is used to accelerate a water flow speed in the air environment. One or more streams of compressed air or high-pressure spray are used to accelerate the water flow speed through impinging. Then a nozzle with a reduced diameter is used to impinge on a hydroelectric generator water wheel at a high speed to increase a generating capacity of a hydroelectric generator. A tailwater spraying out impinges on an air compressor water wheel to generate compressed air for the wind-water machine to function. Another tailwater is used to impinge on a high-pressure water pump wheel to generate a high-pressure spray column for the wind-water machine to function.
The following is a description of implementations of the present invention through specific embodiments. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the content disclosed in this specification.
The following describes the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the drawings. It should be noted that the following drawings are simplified schematic drawings and are merely used for illustrating the basic idea of the present invention in a schematic way. Only the structures related to the present invention are illustrated in the drawings. The drawings are not drawn according to the number, shape, and size of components during actual implementation. The form, number, and scale of components during actual implementation are not limited to those shown in the drawings and can be changed according to the actual design requirements.
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In an exemplary embodiment, the wind-water machine set further includes an air injection tube 17 disposed at a tail end of the ship 10 for eliminating water-resistance at the tail end of the ship caused by high-speed sailing of the ship 10.
The propulsion system 12 has at least one bell mouth or at least one sleeve for reducing an outlet diameter of a water flow, and then spraying and impinging on the water flow one or more times with air, compressed air of various pressures and a high-pressure water-air column to prolong an action time of a counterforce, to spray the wind-water flow backward at an ultra-high-speed, and to obtain maximum propulsion energy.
In an exemplary embodiment, the propulsion system 12 in
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The electric draft sensor controllers are installed on all one or more groups of the inflatable water spray pipes of the control center of the surfing system 13. Only when the load is heavy, the load control switches will automatically open, allowing the jet acceleration tubes to strongly eliminate light load water-resistance. The commonly used jet acceleration tubes under heavy load conditions become a high-pressure jet system to eliminate water-resistance in deep water.
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The multifunctional combination of the Wind-water engine of the present invention can be called a “typhoon engine”, which will make human ships 10 in the future world safe, comfortable, fast, fuel-efficient, and not afraid of typhoons. The operating cost of the ship that utilizes the present invention is not high. The power demand of the ship is about 1 part of the main engine, 50 parts of compressed air, and 80 parts of high-pressure water column, which is about 10,000 parts of the output. The ship is not expensive to build, cheap to operate, and super safe, super-fast, super fuel-efficient and super comfortable.
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The tailwater 24 thereof impinges on an air compressor water wheel 25 to generate compressed air for the wind-water machine use. Another tail-water 24 is used to impinge on a high-pressure water pump wheel 26 to generate a high-pressure water spray column for the wind-water machine use.
The flowchart is as follows. Water flows from the reservoir in the sleeve→The water stream is ejected through the reduced-diameter outlet→The water stream is accelerated by the impact of the compressed air 21 and the high-pressure water sprayer 22→The water stream is again hit by the compressed air 21 and the high-pressure water spray 22→The water stream is again by the compressed air 21 and the high-pressure water spray 22 collided, and accelerated several times in the sleeve→A super-high-speed wind-water column is formed to hit the generator water wheel 23→A tailwater 24 hits the high-pressure water pump wheel 26 or other tailwater 24 hit the air compressor water wheel 25. Since the power generation capacity of the hydro-generator 2 has increased by hundreds of times or more, the generator needs to be changed to have a large capacity to cooperate with the use; or a hundred generator set needs to be added to cooperate with the use.
A low-head water level hydroelectric generator or a small water-flow hydroelectric generator is an extremely good implementation example. A generator which generating capacity is originally small is changed to a generator that outputs a generating capacity increased by hundreds or thousands of times to supply the world with a large amount of clean and cheap generating capacities. Therefore, the earth can be cooled down and the haze will no longer exist, which benefits the world community.
In the wind-water machine set, the propulsion system serves as the power system if a water flow speed is accelerated by dozens of times before a water flow impinges on the electric generator 2, as illustrated in
Although the foregoing description and drawings have disclosed the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it needs to be understood that various additions, many modifications, and substitutions may be used in the preferred embodiment of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the inventive principle as defined by the scope of the attached patent application. Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that this creation can be used for modification of many forms, structures, arrangements, proportions, materials, elements, and components. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed herein should be considered to illustrate the present invention, rather than to limit the present invention. The scope of the present invention shall be defined by the scope of the attached claims, and shall cover its legal equivalents, and shall not be limited to the above description.
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