BENKATINA HYDROELECTRIC TURBINE

• US 20090160193A1
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel Farb
• Original Assignee: Daniel Farb
• Inventors: FARB, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/342,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20090160193A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/54
• CPC Class Codes: F03B 13/00 Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus if the apparatus aspects are predominant, see the relevant subclasses for such apparatus, e.g. H02K7/18; Power stations or aggregates incorporating only machines or engines of positive-displacement type F03C; hydraulic engineering aspects E02B; combinations with wind energy converters F03D9/008
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2210/16 Air or water being indistinctly used as working fluid, i.e. the machine can work equally with air or water without any modification
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2220/602 with energy recovery turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2240/40 Use of a multiplicity of similar components
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/50 Hydropower in dwellings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49336 Blade making

Abstract

New hydroelectric turbine devices, systems, and methods, based on recirculation of fluid through at least one turbine, offer the potential for less costly and greater energy output in many applications.

Claims

1-174. -174. (canceled)

175. A pipe (defined as a non-portable enclosure operative to convey a fluid from one location to another), called a Benkatina pipe, for a fluid, comprising:

a. A main chamber, comprising the main flow of the fluid,

b. A substantially semicircular, side chamber in communication with the main chamber along at least part of the area between two straight lines of the main chamber wall, wherein said side chamber has an axis not substantially parallel to the direction of main chamber flow,

c. a system of turbine blades within said chambers that does not consist of a vaned disc.

176. A pipe (defined as a non-portable enclosure operative to convey a fluid from one location to another), called a Benkatina pipe, for a fluid, comprising:

a. A main chamber, comprising the main flow of the fluid,

b. A substantially semicircular, side chamber in communication with the main chamber along at least part of the area between two straight lines of the main chamber wall, wherein said side chamber has an axis not substantially parallel to the direction of main chamber flow, wherein said side chamber'"'"'s central axis point is located along the imaginary continuation of two lines along the length of the wall of the main chamber.

177. A pipe (defined as a non-portable enclosure operative to convey a fluid from one location to another), called a Benkatina pipe, for a fluid, comprising:

a. A main chamber, comprising the main flow of the fluid,

b. A substantially semicircular, side chamber in communication with the main chamber along at least part of the area between two straight lines of the main chamber wall, wherein said side chamber has an axis not substantially parallel to the direction of main chamber flow, wherein said side chamber'"'"'s central axis point is located along the imaginary continuation of one line along the length of the wall of the main chamber.

178. A piping system, comprising:

a. two substantially semicircular side chambers, originating from the main chamber or its continuation within 5 main chamber diameters of the end of the first side chamber.

179. Sew) A piping system, comprising:

a. A main chamber, comprising the main flow of the fluid,

b. A substantially semicircular, side chamber in communication with the main chamber along at least part of the area between two straight lines of the main chamber wall, wherein said side chamber has an axis not substantially parallel to the direction of main chamber flow, wherein the main chamber cross-section is substantially rectangular in a plane perpendicular to the direction of flow and the side chamber is substantially a partial cylinder.

180. A Benkatina turbine, comprising:

a. a Benkatina pipe,

b. a turbine placed in said pipe that moves in both the main and side chambers.

181. A paddle for a Benkatina turbine, comprising:

a. an area of steeper topography and greater depth in the concave orientation to the flow at the near-periphery of the paddle blade than in the center, said greater depth substantially existing in the outer half of the blade.

b. a convex section of the paddle located in the central section of the paddle.

182. A Benkatina turbine system, comprising:

a. a Benkatina turbine,

b. a flanged pipe wider than and attached to the main chamber.

183. An in-stream turbine system, comprising:

a. at least two turbines connected by a main chamber,

b. an alternate path of piping exiting between the first and second turbine, said alternate path connected to the main chamber on one end and having an outlet without a turbine on the other.

184. An in-stream turbine system, comprising:

a. An intake,

b. Two pipes dividing from the intake, said pipes located around a central supporting structure before proceeding to the outlet,

c. At least one turbine.

185. A vane for a turbine, comprising:

a. at least four substantially planar tails, substantially circumferentially equidistant.

186. A vane for a turbine system, comprising:

a. A diffuser at the outlet of said turbine system, said diffuser having at least two radial sections, each section located approximately circumferentially equidistant from each other.

187. The vane of claim 186, wherein said diffuser has at least 4 substantially circumferentially equidistant sections.

188. A turbine system, comprising:

a. a main chamber with a substantially 360 degree turn with a non-horizontal axis,

b. an upper inlet,

c. a lower outlet,

d. at least one turbine connected to the main chamber.

189. A system for the capture of energy, comprising:

a. a gutter,

b. at least one turbine connected to the gutter, said gutter operative to be an intake to the turbine.

190. A hydroelectric storage system, wherein a section of the pipe material used in flow to or from the storage structure is flexible.

191. A hydroelectric storage system, wherein at least one of the inlet and outlet is capable of vertical movement.

192. A hydroelectric storage system, comprising:

a. a flotation device attached to the inlet and/or the outlet, said flotation device operative to maintain the outlet just below the surface or the inlet just above the surface.

193. A turbine system for the capture of energy, comprising:

a. A device for applying linear force to a fluid in a container,

b. At least two turbines communicating with said container that capture energy from two separate rotational axes simultaneously.

194. A system for the capture of energy, comprising:

a. an energy capture device in one axis of rotation,

b. A second energy capture device in a separate axis of rotation,

c. A connection between the first and second devices that translates motion from the first device to the second.

195. A method of varying the cut-in speed of a turbine, comprising:

a. opening and blocking passageways for the fluid.

196. A turbine system, comprising:

a. a Benkatina turbine

b. a two-way generating means attached to said Benkatina turbine.

197. A method of manufacturing a vane for a turbine, wherein the exhaust structure of the turbine also serves as the vane.