DE20204610U1 - Power generation installation - Google Patents

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Installation for power generation

Studies by various specialized research institutes, state ministries, parliamentary commissions, and joint-stock companies warn that we will soon reach the end of fossil fuel resources, that the only energy available in the future will be renewable energies, which must be used intensively in order to avoid falling back into the Middle Ages, and that, with current levels of support, this Middle Ages could be as early as 2030 or 2040, or even earlier due to political events such as the entry of China as an energy consumer with its 1.5 billion inhabitants.

The invention relates to an installation for generating electricity in large quantities with very low investment - perfectly integrated into any landscape and without causing ecological damage. The invention is based on the object of installing an installation for generating electricity in a single way. This object is achieved and the large amount of electricity is achieved by constructing it on a free section of a conductor rail 1 (or using an old railway track for this purpose).

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By using an electric or diesel-electric traction vehicle 2 on these conductor rails 1. A metal platform 3 is erected on the surface of the traction vehicle 2. For this purpose, an old electric or diesel-electric traction vehicle can be placed on the conductor rails.

The conductor rails 1 can run in a straight line over a free distance of 200 m to 300 m (more or less as required).

The traction vehicle 2 with the metal platform 3 can move electrically on the conductor rails 1 at various speeds, geared with existing electricity (operating voltage 600 to 800 V DC, as with electrically operated railways or subways, 16 2/3 Hz or 50 Hz for electric locomotives). The traction vehicle 2 is remote-controlled with VHF radio. The radio remote control saves the need to lay special line conductors between the running rails.

The traction vehicle 2 can also move like an electric locomotive in a simple form for low speeds with a single overhead line using cheap suspension material and simple assembly with small spans from mast to mast. Post-tensioned, or with post-tensioning devices. Concrete tubes 4 are attached to the metal platform 3 of the traction vehicle 2. Depending on the surface of the metal platform 3, several

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Concrete tubes 4 are laid and secured. The concrete tubes 4 are fixed to the metal platform 3 of the traction vehicle 2 using metal clamps 5. A simple solution for securing the concrete tube 4 would be to concrete it directly onto the metal platform 3 of the traction vehicle 2.

The concrete cast tubes 4 can have square or rectangular profiles. The dimensions of the concrete tubes can be variable. A horizontal steel shaft 7 is inserted in the inner space of the concrete tube 4. The steel shaft 7 consists of two identical parts, each of which has a cut made by milling along its length. These milled cuts correspond to the thickness and width of the steel sheet blades 8.

The processed parts, assembled by milling the steel shaft, form the axis for the steel sheet blades 8. The concrete tubes 4 are drilled through on the sides of their walls and each provided with a capsulated (carcassed) ball bearing. These ball bearings allow the steel shaft parts 7 with the steel sheet blades 8 to rotate quietly, quickly, smoothly and uniformly. The steel shaft parts 7 are assembled with one or three curved steel sheet blades 8 each. The steel sheet blades 8 are circularly repeating metal parts. The two parts of the steel shaft 7 are first inserted into the carcassed ball bearings of the concrete tube wall 4, then

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the sheet steel blades 8 are placed in the milled cut of the steel shaft parts 7 and screwed to the steel shaft parts 7 with screws and nuts. Each screw is provided with a spring washer for security. The ball bearings, the steel shaft 7 with the mounted sheet steel blades 8 together form a rotating unit in the inner part of the concrete tube 4. The steel shaft parts 7, which protrude from the middle of the concrete pipe wall to the left and right of the concrete tube 4, are each connected to a gearless generator (by using the roller shutter 17 at the entry of the air mass into the concrete pipe, the gear is eliminated, because the roller shutter 17 electronically controls the air mass and only allows a programmed air mass to enter). Or the steel shaft parts are each connected to a gear, each with a generator shaft with clutch and each with a generator. All external parts of the generator are placed in a capsule (carcass) and thus protected from rain, snow and wind.

In the concrete pipe 4 in the area of the rotating sheet steel blades 8, a segment of pressure-resistant spun concrete must be built in this section of the concrete pipe 4 in order to ensure a minimum air gap, or an adjustable metal strip 9 can be used. Steel shaft 7, sheet steel blades 8, inserted into the concrete pipe 4, allow a moving traction vehicle 2 to flow in the air mass at a certain speed and thereby rotate in the circle of the sheet steel blades 8. The

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The inflow of the air mass plus wind and headwind when the locomotive 2 is moving is regulated at the entrance to the concrete tube 4 by the construction of a roller shutter 17, which consists of horizontal or vertical, mobile laminations 19 that can be moved or rotated in two metal rails 16. The roller shutter 17 electronically controls the inflowing air mass and only allows a pre-calculated flow with a pre-calculated pressure to enter the concrete tube 4.

The traction vehicle 2 should be a simple construction with a simple metal platform 3 attached. Its task is to transport several concrete tubes 4 with several speed phases on a linear open section on conductor rails 1. Of course, vehicles that run on petrol or diesel engines can also be used for this purpose. In order to save fossil fuels, it is better to do without these types of engines. The concrete tubes 4 with the mounted steel shafts 7, sheet steel blades 8, with the electronic roller shutter 17, are placed in the direction of movement of the traction vehicle 2. At the end of the conductor rail section 1, in order to keep the concrete tube 4 with the sheet steel blades 8 in the flow, the concrete tubes 4 are placed on a metal plate 22.

The metal plate 22 is designed as a rotating system in the metal platform 3 and consists of metal rollers 11 which are located on a metal ring 18 of the

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Metal platform 3, which can rotate the entire system formed from concrete tubes 4 with sheet steel blades 8 in the desired direction with the help of a slewing ring 13 and yaw motors 12. The conductor rails 1 can be laid in such a way that they can rotate in the desired direction in an arc, and so the metal plates 22, metal rollers 11, metal ring 18, slewing ring 13 and yaw motors 12 are omitted.

The rotating unit in the concrete tube 4 made of steel shaft 7 and sheet steel blades 8 is coupled to a generator. The traction vehicle 2, which travels at various speeds, encounters air that is either stationary or moved by atmospheric influences, which has an aerodynamic effect and converts the rotating system inside the concrete tube 4 into mechanical rotary motion, which is converted into electrical energy by the generator.

The electronically programmed entry of the air mass into the concrete tube 4 through the roller shutter 17 makes the need for a gearbox superfluous. However, the generator with gearbox can be retained.

Several traction vehicles 2 with concrete tubes 4 with sheet steel shovels 8 can be used on the conductor rails 1 at a certain distance.

The generated electricity is fed to a transformer on the locomotive 2 or by means of a

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horizontal power line to a transformer away from the busbar 1.

The traction vehicle 2, equipped with the rotating system inside the concrete tube 4 consisting of steel shaft 7, sheet steel blades 8 and roller shutters 17, actually functions like a concrete casing turbine, published patent application DE 199 03 846 A with essential differences.

The concrete tubes 4 can also be cast from steel, ore, aluminum, etc. However, concrete is the most suitable material for this purpose, as concrete is lighter (density 2.2) than iron (density 7.8), cheaper, and easier to mold. A smooth surface is created inside the concrete tube 4 by pouring spun concrete into wooden molds, which, with the help of a metal ring 9 and sheet steel blades, forms a control surface through which the flow must pass. This is how the idealized wind turbine according to Betz was created; it is Betz's power law of wind turbines as a function of wind speed and diameter cast in concrete. The power output is enormous. At a wind speed of 25 m/sec. the power output is 50,000 KW/h - from Wind Power Plants R. Gasch - Verlag Teubner Study Books 1991 - Design of Wind Turbines according to Betz and Schmitz.

The originality of my invention is that you do not have to wait for the wind current and its speed - and that you do not need large diameters of the

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Wind turbines are not required to achieve enormous KW/h outputs, but with the help of the traction vehicle 2, its concrete tubes 4 are placed directly in the flow of the still air or air that is moved by atmospheric influences, which is the starting point for all aerodynamic effects exerted by the vehicle on its surroundings or vice versa by the latter on the vehicle. (Aerodynamics of rail vehicles, Dr. Helmut Glück, Verlag TÜV Köln 1985).

The flow speed is reduced in front of the traction vehicle 2 and the kinetic energy of the air flow is thereby converted into pressure energy, which acts as a force in the direction of flow on the traction vehicle 2 via the vehicle's transverse surface and the rotating system of steel shaft 7 and steel sheet blades 8 with the desired pre-programming by the roller shutter 17 is converted into rotary movements, which are converted into electrical energy by the generator 14. The energy generated in this way exceeds anything that wind turbines can produce today. 3 MW/h per concrete tube 4 can be predicted.

The installation for generating electricity can also work on the same principle as pumped storage plants of hydroelectric power plants, namely at different times of the day (breakfast break, etc.) cheap electricity is available for a short time as a result of a reduction in electricity demand during this period. Or there are requirements in the European interconnection network for so-called power frequency regulation.

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Today, it can be assumed that in the German power grid the operating times for pumps and turbines of storage plants are approximately 4 to 5 hours per day and night (24 hours) (hydroelectric power plants, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans Blind T.V. Munich).

The time when cheap electricity is available can also be used by the invention "installation for generating electricity" to generate more expensive electricity from cheap electricity using very cheap, clean and efficient means (a concrete pipe and two or three rotating blades). In contrast to pumped storage plants (PSP), where the water is pumped from a lower reservoir into a higher reservoir (usually an upper reservoir 40 to 50 m higher) and then - when required - this water is processed via turbines.

The locomotive 2 is not tied to a specific location, such as hydroelectric power stations or wind power stations. It can move and generate large amounts of electricity anywhere where there are tracks. It needs electricity to move at certain speeds. This electricity can also be generated from increasingly cheaper materials such as brown coal, hard coal, rapeseed oil and ethanol, in contrast to fossil fuels, which are becoming increasingly expensive. By modifying the locomotive, these biofuels and coal can be used directly.

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The electricity generated by cheap coal and biofuels to move the locomotive offers the possibility of generating a large amount of electricity at a real expensive market price. The efficient and cheap installation of the locomotive - coal and biofuels make this economically possible.

In summary, a traction vehicle is mounted on conductor rails and remotely controlled by VHF radio. The use of cheap electricity or fuel such as coal, rapeseed oil, ethanol allows the traction vehicle to move at various speeds through still air or air moved by atmospheric influences, which set a rotating system of sheet steel blades in rotation, which in turn can generate electrical energy through the rotation of a generator.

The invention relates to an installation for generating electricity, in particular a wind power plant, with at least one jacketed turbine, the jacket of which is designed as a concrete tube and contains at least one rotating mechanical system that can be driven by wind power and is force-locked to a power generator.

From DE 199 03 846 C 2, such a jacketed turbine is known, which is rotatably mounted on a tower or foundation made of cast concrete and firmly anchored to the ground. It is therefore suitable for all

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Time is tied to their location and dependent on the wind that arises at that location.

The invention is based on the object of specifying an installation for power generation which is not dependent on the wind conditions at a fixed location, but can be easily moved to a more suitable location.

This object is achieved with the features of the claim in that the concrete tube is rotatably mounted on a traction vehicle designed as a rail vehicle.

Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in the subclaims.

The advantages achieved by the invention are in particular that the installation for generating electricity is not tied to a specific location, so that it can be moved to locations favored by wind or to places where electricity is needed at short notice and temporarily, for example on construction sites or at accident sites.

An embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawing and is described in more detail below.

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Fig. 1 shows the side view of an installation for power generation in a first alternative, partly in section,

Fig. 2 the side view of an installation for power generation in a second alternative, partly in section,

Fig. 3 a damping device for controlling the air masses flowing into the turbine and

Fig. 4 shows another embodiment of such a damping device.

Fig. 1 shows an installation for generating electricity with a jacketed turbine, the jacket of which is designed as a concrete tube 4 with a rectangular or square cross-section and contains, as a rotating mechanical system, a steel shaft 7 which is rotatably mounted in the side walls of the concrete tube 4 and has two sheet steel blades 8 attached to it, which completely fill the cross-section of the concrete tube 4 except for a narrow gap. The steel shaft 7 is coupled to a power generator (not shown) directly or via a gear.

Fig. 2 shows, in another alternative, a concrete tube 4 with a circular cross-section containing a generator consisting of a stator 6 and a rotor 10 in the form of a propeller, which is driven by the

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is set in rotation by the wind flowing through it and thus generates electricity in the stator 6.

An adjustable metal segment 9 is inserted into the concrete tube 4 in the area of the rotating rotor blade tips or in the area where the sheet steel blades 8 come closest to the inner wall of the concrete tube 4, which serves to minimize the air gap between the rotor blade tips or the sheet steel blades 8 and the inner wall of the concrete tube 4. This allows the efficiency of the turbine to be increased further.

In both alternatives, the concrete tube 4 is anchored on a metal plate 22, which in turn is rotatably mounted on a metal ring 18 which is fastened to a platform 3 mounted on a traction vehicle 2 designed as a rail vehicle.

The metal plate 22 is mounted on metal rollers 11 and is rotated on a slewing ring 13 in the optimal direction to the wind by two yaw motors 12, which are electronically controlled depending on the wind direction.

To control the strength of the wind hitting the sheet steel blades 8 or the rotor 10, a damping device 21 is arranged at the entrance of the concrete tube 4. This consists either of a roller shutter 17 according to Fig. 3, which is composed of horizontally arranged mobile, strip-shaped slats 19, which can be moved and/or rotated in two metal rails 16.

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are mounted and are electronically controlled depending on the wind speed, or according to Fig. 4 from a metal plate provided with windows 20, wherein the windows 20 can be opened at an angle between 0° and 90° into the interior of the concrete tube 4. The opening angle is electronically controlled depending on the wind speed.

The interior of the locomotive 2 contains technical equipment not shown, such as transformers, power converters and control devices, as well as seats for the operating personnel.

The traction vehicle 2 is only partially shown in Fig. 1 and 2. However, it has two bogies 14, with a concrete tube 4 arranged above each bogie 14. Additional concrete tubes 4 have sufficient space between the first two concrete tubes 4, provided the traction vehicle 2 is of a sufficient length.

The traction vehicle 2 can be remotely controlled via VHF radio on rails 1, which can be part of the existing railway network. The traction vehicle can also be integrated into a railway train. The electricity generated by the generators during the journey can be fed into the railway power grid via a pantograph (not shown).

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Claims (16)

1. Installation for power generation, in particular a wind power plant, with at least one jacketed turbine, the jacket of which is designed as a concrete tube ( 4 ) and contains at least one rotating mechanical system which can be driven by wind power and which is force-lockingly coupled to a power generator, characterized in that the concrete tube ( 4 ) is rotatably mounted on a traction vehicle ( 2 ) designed as a rail vehicle. 2. Installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the concrete tube ( 4 ) is anchored on a circular metal plate ( 22) rotatably mounted on a metal ring (18 ) , wherein the metal ring ( 18 ) is fastened to a platform ( 3 ) mounted on the traction vehicle ( 2 ). 3. Installation according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that two or more than two rotating mechanical systems are arranged one behind the other in the concrete tube ( 4 ). 4. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that two or more than two concrete tubes ( 4 ) are arranged on the traction vehicle ( 2 ). 5. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that two concrete tubes ( 4 ) are arranged on the traction vehicle ( 2 ), one each above a bogie ( 14 ). 6. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the traction vehicle ( 2 ) has at least one drive motor ( 15 ), preferably on each axle of the bogie ( 14 ). 7. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a damping device ( 21 ) controlling the strength of the incoming wind is arranged at the entrance of the concrete tube ( 4 ). 8. Installation according to claim 7, characterized in that the damping device ( 21 ) consists of a roller shutter ( 17 ) or of a metal plate provided with windows ( 20 ). 9. Installation according to claim 8, characterized in that the roller shutter ( 17 ) consists of horizontally or vertically arranged mobile, strip-shaped slats ( 19 ) which are slidably mounted in two metal rails ( 16 ) and are electronically controllable depending on the wind speed. 10. Installation according to claim 9, characterized in that the windows ( 20 ) in the metal plate open at an angle between 0° and 90° into the interior of the concrete tube ( 4 ), wherein the opening angle is electronically controllable depending on the wind speed. 11. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the concrete tube ( 4 ) has a square or rectangular cross-section and the rotating mechanical system consists of a steel shaft ( 7 ) rotatably mounted in the side walls of the concrete tube ( 4 ), on which at least two sheet steel blades ( 8 ) are fastened, which completely fill the cross-section of the concrete tube ( 4 ) except for a minimal gap, wherein the steel shaft ( 7 ) is coupled to the power generator directly or via a gear. 12. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the concrete tube ( 4 ) has a circular cross-section and the rotating mechanical system consists of a rotor ( 10 ) rotating in a stator ( 6 ) of a power generator with propeller-shaped rotor blades, the tips of which reach up to a minimal gap to the inner wall of the concrete tube ( 4 ). 13. Installation according to one of claims 11 or 12, characterized in that the concrete tube ( 4 ) has an adjustable metal segment ( 9 ) in the region of the rotating rotor blade tips or in the region of the closest approach of the sheet steel blades ( 8 ) to the inner wall of the concrete tube ( 4 ) for minimizing the air gap between these tips or sheet steel blades ( 8 ) and the inner wall of the concrete tube ( 4 ). 14. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 13, characterized in that the metal plate ( 22 ) is mounted on metal rollers ( 11 ) and can be rotated on a turntable ( 13 ) in the optimal direction to the wind by yaw motors ( 12 ) which can be electronically controlled depending on the wind direction. 15. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that the traction vehicle ( 2 ) together with the concrete tubes ( 4 ) can be moved on rails ( 1 ) by remote control via VHF radio. 16. Installation according to one of claims 1 to 15, characterized in that the rails ( 1 ) are part of the existing railway network.