A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
C07C 29/152 - Préparation de composés comportant des groupes hydroxyle ou O-métal liés à un atome de carbone ne faisant pas partie d'un cycle aromatique à six chaînons par réduction exclusivement des oxydes de carbone avec de l'hydrogène ou des gaz contenant de l'hydrogène caractérisée par le réacteur utilisé
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVAL AND SEQUESTRATION OF ACIDITY FROM SURFACE SEAWATER
A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
Embodiments include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. An effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the injection tube.
Embodiments include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. An effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the injection tube.
Methods and systems are provided for transient fluidic coupling via reversibly couplable conduits. In one example, a method includes directing a conduit assembly to a receiving port by releasing one or more fluid streams from the conduit assembly. The method may further include fluidly coupling an internal passage of the conduit assembly to the receiving port. The internal passage may extend from the conduit assembly and along a conduit between a pair of free-floating bodies, such as between a wave engine and a tanker ship, so as to exchange one or more fluids, such as an electrolysis reactant and an electrolysis product. The fluidic coupling may be reversible, in that the conduit assembly may be detached from the receiving port to sever the fluidic coupling. In certain examples, the detaching may be actuated by releasing one or more additional fluid streams from the conduit assembly.
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
B63B 22/26 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées de type conteneur, c. à d. comportant des dispositions pour l'entreposage du matériel comportant des moyens pour larguer sélectivement le contenu, p.ex. des raccords pivotants
Methods and systems are provided for transient fluidic coupling via reversibly couplable conduits. In one example, a method includes directing a conduit assembly to a receiving port by releasing one or more fluid streams from the conduit assembly. The method may further include fluidly coupling an internal passage of the conduit assembly to the receiving port. The internal passage may extend from the conduit assembly and along a conduit between a pair of free-floating bodies, such as between a wave engine and a tanker ship, so as to exchange one or more fluids, such as an electrolysis reactant and an electrolysis product. The fluidic coupling may be reversible, in that the conduit assembly may be detached from the receiving port to sever the fluidic coupling. In certain examples, the detaching may be actuated by releasing one or more additional fluid streams from the conduit assembly.
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B67D 9/00 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides lors du chargement ou du déchargement des navires
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
B67D 7/04 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides à partir de récipients ou de réservoirs de stockage en vrac vers des véhicules ou des récipients portables, p.ex. pour la vente au détail pour transférer des carburants, des lubrifiants ou leurs mélanges
B63B 22/24 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées de type conteneur, c. à d. comportant des dispositions pour l'entreposage du matériel
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
C07C 29/152 - Préparation de composés comportant des groupes hydroxyle ou O-métal liés à un atome de carbone ne faisant pas partie d'un cycle aromatique à six chaînons par réduction exclusivement des oxydes de carbone avec de l'hydrogène ou des gaz contenant de l'hydrogène caractérisée par le réacteur utilisé
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CHEMICAL COLLECTION AND PROCESSING VESSEL AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER AT SEA
Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
C07C 29/152 - Préparation de composés comportant des groupes hydroxyle ou O-métal liés à un atome de carbone ne faisant pas partie d'un cycle aromatique à six chaînons par réduction exclusivement des oxydes de carbone avec de l'hydrogène ou des gaz contenant de l'hydrogène caractérisée par le réacteur utilisé
12.
CHEMICAL COLLECTION AND PROCESSING VESSEL AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER AT SEA
Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
C07C 29/152 - Préparation de composés comportant des groupes hydroxyle ou O-métal liés à un atome de carbone ne faisant pas partie d'un cycle aromatique à six chaînons par réduction exclusivement des oxydes de carbone avec de l'hydrogène ou des gaz contenant de l'hydrogène caractérisée par le réacteur utilisé
13.
CHEMICAL COLLECTION AND PROCESSING VESSEL AND METHODS FOR FLUID TRANSFER AT SEA
Embodiments disclosed herein include a vessel for floating and traveling adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water. In an embodiment, the vessel comprises a support structure, a first floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, a second floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the second floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from and fluidly coupled to the first floatation chamber, and a third floatation chamber coupled to the support structure, the third floatation chamber laterally spaced apart from the first floatation chamber and from the second floatation chamber. In an embodiment, the vessel further comprises a robot system coupled to the support structure, where the robot system comprises an end effector and a nozzle head coupled to the end effector.
A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
Embodiments disclosed herein include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. In an embodiment, an effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the second fluid reservoir.
B63B 1/04 - Caractéristiques hydrodynamiques ou hydrostatiques des coques ou des ailes portantes tirant la portance principalement du déplacement liquide à coque simple
B63B 21/00 - Apparaux de manœuvre; Apparaux de déhalage, de remorquage ou de poussée; Ancrage
B63B 21/50 - Dispositifs d'ancrage pour navires spéciaux, p.ex. pour plates-formes flottantes de forage ou dragues
B63B 22/18 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées comportant des moyens pour régler l'assiette ou la position, p.ex. des surfaces de réaction ou des orins
B63B 22/24 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées de type conteneur, c. à d. comportant des dispositions pour l'entreposage du matériel
B63B 3/04 - Coques assemblées à partir de sous-ensembles préfabriqués à sous-ensembles reliés en permanence
B63B 35/00 - Embarcations ou structures flottantes similaires spécialement adaptées à des finalités spécifiques et non prévues ailleurs
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 39/06 - Installations pour diminuer le tangage, le roulis ou autres mouvements similaires indésirables du navire; Appareils pour indiquer l'assiette du navire réduisant les mouvements du navire par l'effet d'ailerons agissant sur l'eau ambiante
B63H 21/00 - Aménagements de l'appareil moteur de propulsion ou de certains de ses éléments pour utilisation à bord des navires
B63J 3/04 - Entraînement des auxiliaires par l'ensemble moteur autre que celui de la propulsion
B65B 35/44 - Disposition et alimentation des objets en groupes par courroies ou chaînes sans fin
F02B 17/00 - Moteurs caractérisés par la possibilité d'effectuer une stratification de la charge dans les cylindres
F03B 13/00 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil
F03B 13/06 - Centrales ou ensembles machine-appareil du type à accumulation d'eau
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
F03D 13/10 - Assemblage de mécanismes moteurs à vent; Dispositions pour l’érection de mécanismes moteurs à vent
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
F03D 3/00 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent avec axe de rotation sensiblement perpendiculaire au flux d'air pénétrant dans le rotor
F03D 9/00 - Adaptations des mécanismes moteurs à vent pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec les appareils qu’ils entrainent; Mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation dans des endroits particuliers
F03D 9/10 - Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec un appareil emmagasinant de l’énergie
F03D 9/11 - Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec un appareil emmagasinant de l’énergie emmagasinant de l’énergie électrique
F03D 9/20 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent caractérisés par l’appareil entrainé
F03D 9/34 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation dans des endroits particuliers sur des objets stationnaires ou des structures stationnaires faites par l’homme
F04D 29/22 - Rotors spécialement pour les pompes centrifuges
F04D 29/44 - Moyens de guidage du fluide, p.ex. diffuseurs
F16H 19/06 - Transmissions comportant essentiellement et uniquement des engrenages ou des organes de friction et qui ne peuvent transmettre un mouvement rotatif indéfini pour convertir un mouvement rotatif en mouvement alternatif et vice versa comportant un organe flexible sans fin
F16H 39/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide utilisant des pompes et des moteurs du type volumétrique, c. à d. débitant un volume prédéterminé de fluide à chaque révolution
F16H 41/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide du type hydrocinétique
G01C 21/20 - Instruments pour effectuer des calculs de navigation
G05D 1/00 - Commande de la position, du cap, de l'altitude ou de l'attitude des véhicules terrestres, aquatiques, aériens ou spatiaux, p.ex. pilote automatique
G05D 1/02 - Commande de la position ou du cap par référence à un système à deux dimensions
G09C 1/00 - Appareils ou méthodes au moyen desquels une suite donnée de signes, p.ex. un texte intelligible, est transformée en une suite de signes inintelligibles en transposant les signes ou groupes de signes ou en les remplaçant par d'autres suivant un systèm
H02J 4/00 - Circuits pour réseaux principaux ou de distribution, la nature alternative ou continue du courant n'étant pas précisée
H02K 3/52 - Fixation des enroulements de pôles saillants ou de leurs connexions
H02K 7/075 - Moyens de transformation d'un mouvement alternatif en un mouvement circulaire ou vice versa utilisant des manivelles ou des excentriques
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
H02P 9/04 - Commande s'exerçant sur un moteur primaire non électrique et dépendant de la valeur d'une caractéristique électrique à la sortie de la génératrice
H04L 9/00 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
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Recirculating inertial hydrodynamic pump and wave engine
Embodiments disclosed herein include a buoyant wave energy converter. In an embodiment, the wave energy converter comprises an upper chamber having a first fluid reservoir and a first gas pocket, and a lower chamber having a second fluid reservoir and a second gas pocket. In an embodiment, an injection tube is between and fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the injection tube is to impel a fluid from the second fluid reservoir into the first fluid reservoir when the upper chamber, the lower chamber and the injection tube oscillate about a waterline with the upper chamber adjacent to the waterline and the lower chamber submerged below the waterline and vertically beneath the upper chamber. In an embodiment, an effluent tube is fluidly coupled to the upper chamber and the lower chamber, where the effluent tube is to return the fluid from the first fluid reservoir to the second fluid reservoir.
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a gaseous chemical, e.g., hydrogen gas, can be retrieved by, stored within, and transported by, a low-cost autonomous vessel. The vessel is deployed, and operates, within a body of water. A submerged portion of the vessel is subjected to an ambient hydrostatic pressure that is used to compress the stored gases. A spar buoy that floats adjacent to a surface of the body of water regulates and stabilizes a depth of the submerged portion. A single pressure-tolerant chamber within the submerged portion is used to acquire gas from a gas provider and to equilibrate the pressure of the gas so acquired. The pressure-equilibrated and/or pressure-balanced gas is then drawn into a first gas storage tank through a venting of an approximately equal volume of another gas, e.g., air, from a second gas storage tank, resulting in a gas transfer at an approximately constant pressure. The processing and storage of acquired gases at pressures approximately equal to the ambient hydrostatic pressures permits the use of thin-walled tanks, and makes possible a low-cost gas acquisition, storage, and transportation, vessel.
F17C 1/00 - Récipients sous pression, p.ex. bouteilles de gaz, réservoirs de gaz, cartouches échangeables
B63B 1/24 - Caractéristiques hydrodynamiques ou hydrostatiques des coques ou des ailes portantes tirant une portance supplémentaire des forces hydrodynamiques du type ailes portantes
B63B 22/22 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées gonflables par des moyens de production de gaz
F17C 5/06 - Procédés ou appareils pour remplir des récipients sous pression de gaz liquéfiés, solidifiés ou comprimés pour le remplissage avec des gaz comprimés
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a gaseous chemical, e.g., hydrogen gas, can be retrieved by, stored within, and transported by, a low-cost autonomous vessel. The vessel is deployed, and operates, within a body of water. A submerged portion of the vessel is subjected to an ambient hydrostatic pressure that is used to compress the stored gases. A spar buoy that floats adjacent to a surface of the body of water regulates and stabilizes a depth of the submerged portion. A single pressure-tolerant chamber within the submerged portion is used to acquire gas from a gas provider and to equilibrate the pressure of the gas so acquired. The pressure-equilibrated and/or pressure-balanced gas is then drawn into a first gas storage tank through a venting of an approximately equal volume of another gas, e.g., air, from a second gas storage tank, resulting in a gas transfer at an approximately constant pressure.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
B63B 22/24 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées de type conteneur, c. à d. comportant des dispositions pour l'entreposage du matériel
B63B 22/08 - Dispositifs d'ancrage comportant des moyens pour larguer ou pousser à la surface une bouée immergée, p.ex. pour marquer l'emplacement d'objets coulés
B63B 27/24 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers des systèmes de canalisations
B63B 27/34 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers pour le transfert entre des navires en mer ou entre un navire et un poste situé en mer à l'aide de systèmes de canalisations
20.
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FREE-FLOATING NAUTICAL STATIONKEEPING
Methods and systems are provided for nautical stationkeeping of free-floating objects. In one example, a method includes adjusting translational motion of a body freely floating in water by rotating the body. The translational motion may be adjusted, for instance, to maintain the body within a geographic area. In certain examples, the adjustment of the translational motion may be realized via a Magnus effect induced by rotating the body. The body may be configured as, for example, a free-floating object such as a wave engine.
Methods and systems are provided for nautical stationkeeping of free-floating objects. In one example, a method includes adjusting translational motion of a body freely floating in water by rotating the body. The translational motion may be adjusted, for instance, to maintain the body within a geographic area. In certain examples, the adjustment of the translational motion may be realized via a Magnus effect induced by rotating the body. The body may be configured as, for example, a free-floating object such as a wave engine.
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 39/00 - Installations pour diminuer le tangage, le roulis ou autres mouvements similaires indésirables du navire; Appareils pour indiquer l'assiette du navire
A flow regulation system for regulating a flow of a fluid from a fluid reservoir is disclosed having a fluid reservoir container, an effluent conduit adapted to discharge fluid from the fluid reservoir container, and a fluid turbine disposed in the effluent conduit. A generator is operatively connected to the fluid turbine for converting mechanical energy of the fluid turbine to electrical energy, and a power conditioning module is energized by the generator to alter voltage and current characteristics of electricity generated by the generator. A load manager is provided to monitor operational characteristic of the flow regulation systems. The load manager responds to a change in operational characteristics by sending a signal to alter an electrical load characteristic selected from the group comprising a clock frequency of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, a mean rate of digital switching operations of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, and a current draw of the electrical load.
An apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass, causing a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be converted to electrical power by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
24.
Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine
A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injection tube. The ejected water is deposited into an interior of the hollow buoy thereby augmenting a water reservoir therein. And water flows from the water reservoir to and through a water turbine, thereby energizing a generator, power electronics, and an electrical load. A novel water-turbine effluent buffering tube, or chamber, smooths pressure variations felt across the water turbine.
A computing apparatus that is integrated within a flotation module, the system obtaining the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of a body of water on which the flotation module sets. Additionally, the self-powered computing apparatus employs novel designs to utilize its close proximity to the body of water and/or to strong ocean winds to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
B63B 22/18 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées comportant des moyens pour régler l'assiette ou la position, p.ex. des surfaces de réaction ou des orins
B63B 39/06 - Installations pour diminuer le tangage, le roulis ou autres mouvements similaires indésirables du navire; Appareils pour indiquer l'assiette du navire réduisant les mouvements du navire par l'effet d'ailerons agissant sur l'eau ambiante
B63H 21/00 - Aménagements de l'appareil moteur de propulsion ou de certains de ses éléments pour utilisation à bord des navires
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
G09C 1/00 - Appareils ou méthodes au moyen desquels une suite donnée de signes, p.ex. un texte intelligible, est transformée en une suite de signes inintelligibles en transposant les signes ou groupes de signes ou en les remplaçant par d'autres suivant un systèm
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
H04L 9/32 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité comprenant des moyens pour vérifier l'identité ou l'autorisation d'un utilisateur du système
Disclosed is an autonomous vessel comprising a hydrodynamic pump that converts the energy of ocean waves into electrical power when the vessel is floating adjacent to an upper surface of an ocean, and utilizes a portion of the generated electrical power produced to charge an electrical energy storage device. The vessel may submerge itself, and then propel itself beneath the water's surface, after which it may return to the surface and resume its production of electrical energy and recharge its electrical energy storage device.
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a plentiful supply of carbon dioxide may be provided to a fuel-conversion process operated in the deep sea far from shore thereby permitting a conversion of electrolysis-generated hydrogen gas into a carbonaceous liquid fuel. Because the cost and complexity of storing and transporting liquid fuels by ship is substantially simpler and less costly than is transporting gases, the present invention is expected to promote the extraction and distribution of energy harvested from the deep sea by permitting it to be accomplished with reasonable logistical complexity and at a reasonable and low cost.
A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injection tube. The ejected water is deposited into an interior of the hollow buoy thereby augmenting a water reservoir therein. And water flows from the water reservoir to and through a water turbine, thereby energizing a generator, power electronics, and an electrical load. A novel water-turbine effluent buffering tube, or chamber, smooths pressure variations felt across the water turbine.
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
30.
Pressure-regulating hydrodynamic pump and wave engine
A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injection tube. The ejected water is deposited into an interior of the hollow buoy thereby augmenting a water reservoir therein. And water flows from the water reservoir to and through a water turbine, thereby energizing a generator, power electronics, and an electrical load. A novel water-turbine effluent buffering tube, or chamber, smooths pressure variations felt across the water turbine.
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
H04L 9/00 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité
34.
Vessel to provide carbon dioxide from calcium carbonate
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a plentiful supply of carbon dioxide may be provided to a fuel-conversion process operated in the deep sea far from shore thereby permitting a conversion of electrolysis-generated hydrogen gas into a carbonaceous liquid fuel. Because the cost and complexity of storing and transporting liquid fuels by ship is substantially simpler and less costly than is transporting gases, the present invention is expected to promote the extraction and distribution of energy harvested from the deep sea by permitting it to be accomplished with reasonable logistical complexity and at a reasonable and low cost.
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a plentiful supply of carbon dioxide may be provided to a fuel-conversion process operated in the deep sea far from shore thereby permitting a conversion of electrolysis-generated hydrogen gas into a carbonaceous liquid fuel. Because the cost and complexity of storing and transporting liquid fuels by ship is substantially simpler and less costly than is transporting gases, the present invention is expected to promote the extraction and distribution of energy harvested from the deep sea by permitting it to be accomplished with reasonable logistical complexity and at a reasonable and low cost.
F17C 1/00 - Récipients sous pression, p.ex. bouteilles de gaz, réservoirs de gaz, cartouches échangeables
F17C 7/00 - Procédés ou appareils pour vider les gaz liquéfiés, solidifiés ou comprimés contenus dans des récipients sous pression, non couverts par une autre sous-classe
F17C 5/06 - Procédés ou appareils pour remplir des récipients sous pression de gaz liquéfiés, solidifiés ou comprimés pour le remplissage avec des gaz comprimés
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
An apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass, causing a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be converted to electrical power by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REMOVAL AND SEQUESTRATION OF ACIDITY FROM SURFACE SEAWATER
A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
A method by which an environmental energy (e.g., wave energy) is harvested, converted into electrical power, and thereafter used to electrolyze seawater into hydrogen and chlorine gases. Those gases are recombined into hydrogen chloride from which is formed hydrochloric acid solution which is diluted and deposited at a depth sufficient to ensure its neutralization and sequestration for a significant period of time (e.g., for over a millennium). By removing chloride ions from a portion of the sea adjacent to its upper surface and depositing them into a portion of the sea more adjacent to its bottom, acidity is shifted from the surface to base of the sea, and the surface ocean is given a greater ability to absorb and buffer atmospheric carbon dioxide without a corresponding increase in acidity.
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. Embodiments incorporate an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying fluid-flow oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, dissolved minerals extraction, or cloud seeding. Methods are disclosed for manufacture of hydrogen at sea and for delivery of said hydrogen using a ship. Methods are disclosed for filling a hydrogen-loaded carrier ship at sea.
C25B 9/65 - Dispositifs pour l'alimentation en courant; Connexions d'électrodes; Connexions électriques intercellulaires
F04B 17/00 - Pompes caractérisées par leur combinaison avec des machines motrices ou moteurs particuliers qui les entraînent ou par leur adaptation à ceux-ci
B63B 1/02 - Caractéristiques hydrodynamiques ou hydrostatiques des coques ou des ailes portantes tirant la portance principalement du déplacement liquide
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power, by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine thereby energizing an operationally connected generator, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastructure, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
B63B 27/24 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers des systèmes de canalisations
B63B 25/08 - Installations de chargement, p.ex. pour le rangement ou l'arrimage; Navires spécialisés à cet effet pour chargement de marchandises fluides
B63B 79/40 - Surveillance des caractéristiques ou des paramètres de fonctionnement des navires en opération pour le suivi des operations des navires, p.ex. le suivi de leur vitesse, de leur itinéraire ou de leur calendrier d’entretien
B67D 9/00 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides lors du chargement ou du déchargement des navires
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
B67D 7/04 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides à partir de récipients ou de réservoirs de stockage en vrac vers des véhicules ou des récipients portables, p.ex. pour la vente au détail pour transférer des carburants, des lubrifiants ou leurs mélanges
Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
H04L 9/00 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
A flow regulation system for regulating a flow of a fluid from a fluid reservoir is disclosed having a fluid reservoir container, an effluent conduit adapted to discharge fluid from the fluid reservoir container, and a fluid turbine disposed in the effluent conduit. A generator connected to the fluid turbine for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy, and a power conditioning module is energized by the generator to alter voltage and current characteristics of electricity generated by the generator. A load manager to monitor operational characteristic of the flow regulation systems. The load manager responds to a change in operational characteristics by sending a signal to alter an electrical load characteristic selected from the group comprising a clock frequency of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, a mean rate of digital switching operations of digital computing circuits in the electrical load, and a current draw of the electrical load.
Disclosed is an apparatus that adapts the rate of its computational work to match the availability of energy harvested from a stochastic energy source; and, with respect to some types of energy harvesting, regulates the rate of energy capture, the rate of energy conversion, and the rate of consumption of stored potential energy, through its alteration, regulation, and/or adjustment, of that same computational work load.
Disclosed is a system for deploying, stationing, and translocating buoyant wind- and wave-energy converters and/or other buoyant structures or devices, as well as farms of same. Also disclosed is a novel apparatus and/or machine comprising a farm of buoyant wave energy converters deployed by said method and/or configured to be deployed by said method.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03D 3/00 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent avec axe de rotation sensiblement perpendiculaire au flux d'air pénétrant dans le rotor
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
F03D 13/10 - Assemblage de mécanismes moteurs à vent; Dispositions pour l’érection de mécanismes moteurs à vent
Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over that waves pass. Passing waves, and/or the motions they impart to the apparatus as they pass, result in a net and/or effective propulsion of the apparatus in at least a first direction relative to the geometry and/or structure of the apparatus, and typically, at least in part, toward a direction from that waves approach the apparatus.
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over that waves pass. Passing waves, and/or the motions they impart to the apparatus as they pass, result in a net and/or effective propulsion of the apparatus in at least a first direction relative to the geometry and/or structure of the apparatus, and typically, at least in part, toward a direction from that waves approach the apparatus.
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
E02B 9/08 - Installations pour l'utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.
An energy farm having an electrical grid through which power generated by the devices in the farm may be combined and transmitted. The electrical grid is formed through the electrical interconnection of devices in a farm through electrical connections that remain, in whole or at least in part, adjacent to the surface of the body of water on which the devices float. A plurality of flexible converters of the network have no direct or immediate electrical interface with a subsea power cable (i.e. a cable on or under the seafloor), but instead transmit electricity to other converters in a daisy-chained fashion.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
An apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass, causing a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be converted to electrical power by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
An apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass, causing a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be converted to electrical power by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
E02B 9/08 - Installations pour l'utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03G 7/08 - Mécanismes produisant une puissance mécanique, non prévus ailleurs ou utilisant une source d'énergie non prévue ailleurs récupérant l'énergie produite par le balancement, le roulement, le tangage ou des mouvements semblabes, p.ex. par les vibrations d'une machine
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastructur, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
B63B 27/24 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers des systèmes de canalisations
B63B 25/08 - Installations de chargement, p.ex. pour le rangement ou l'arrimage; Navires spécialisés à cet effet pour chargement de marchandises fluides
B63B 79/40 - Surveillance des caractéristiques ou des paramètres de fonctionnement des navires en opération pour le suivi des operations des navires, p.ex. le suivi de leur vitesse, de leur itinéraire ou de leur calendrier d’entretien
B67D 9/00 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides lors du chargement ou du déchargement des navires
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
B67D 7/04 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides à partir de récipients ou de réservoirs de stockage en vrac vers des véhicules ou des récipients portables, p.ex. pour la vente au détail pour transférer des carburants, des lubrifiants ou leurs mélanges
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastructur, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
B63B 27/24 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers des systèmes de canalisations
B63B 25/08 - Installations de chargement, p.ex. pour le rangement ou l'arrimage; Navires spécialisés à cet effet pour chargement de marchandises fluides
B63B 79/40 - Surveillance des caractéristiques ou des paramètres de fonctionnement des navires en opération pour le suivi des operations des navires, p.ex. le suivi de leur vitesse, de leur itinéraire ou de leur calendrier d’entretien
B67D 9/00 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides lors du chargement ou du déchargement des navires
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
B67D 7/04 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides à partir de récipients ou de réservoirs de stockage en vrac vers des véhicules ou des récipients portables, p.ex. pour la vente au détail pour transférer des carburants, des lubrifiants ou leurs mélanges
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastmctur, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastmctur, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
A system and method by which energy from ocean waves is converted into hydrogen, and that hydrogen is used to manifest electrical and mechanical energies by an energy consuming device. A portion of the generated electrical power is communicated to water electrolyzers which produce oxygen and hydrogen from water as gases. At least a portion of the generated hydrogen gas is transferred to a transportation ship via a hose-carrying, remotely operated (or otherwise unmanned) vehicle, and subsequently transferred to an energy-consuming module or infrastructure, where a portion of the hydrogen is consumed in order to manifest a generation of electrical energy, a mechanical motion, and/or a chemical reaction.
B63B 27/24 - Aménagement des équipements de bord pour l'embarquement ou le débarquement des cargaisons ou des passagers des systèmes de canalisations
B63B 25/08 - Installations de chargement, p.ex. pour le rangement ou l'arrimage; Navires spécialisés à cet effet pour chargement de marchandises fluides
B63B 79/40 - Surveillance des caractéristiques ou des paramètres de fonctionnement des navires en opération pour le suivi des operations des navires, p.ex. le suivi de leur vitesse, de leur itinéraire ou de leur calendrier d’entretien
B67D 9/00 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides lors du chargement ou du déchargement des navires
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
B67D 7/04 - Appareils ou dispositifs pour transférer des liquides à partir de récipients ou de réservoirs de stockage en vrac vers des véhicules ou des récipients portables, p.ex. pour la vente au détail pour transférer des carburants, des lubrifiants ou leurs mélanges
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Wave-energized buoyant water elevator for raising water in response to tilting about multiple distinct angularly-spaced axes
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power, by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine thereby energizing an operationally connected generator, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. Embodiments incorporate an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tubes constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying fluid-flow oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or the devices pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, dissolved minerals extraction, or cloud seeding. Methods are disclosed for manufacture of hydrogen at sea and for delivery of said hydrogen using a ship. Methods are disclosed for filling a hydrogen-loaded carrier ship at sea.
C25B 1/04 - Hydrogène ou oxygène par électrolyse de l'eau
C02F 1/46 - Traitement de l'eau, des eaux résiduaires ou des eaux d'égout par des procédés électrochimiques
F04B 17/00 - Pompes caractérisées par leur combinaison avec des machines motrices ou moteurs particuliers qui les entraînent ou par leur adaptation à ceux-ci
B63B 1/00 - Caractéristiques hydrodynamiques ou hydrostatiques des coques ou des ailes portantes
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. Embodiments incorporate an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tubes constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying fluid-flow oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or the devices pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, dissolved minerals extraction, or cloud seeding. Methods are disclosed for manufacture of hydrogen at sea and for delivery of said hydrogen using a ship. Methods are disclosed for filling a hydrogen-loaded carrier ship at sea.
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
Disclosed is an autonomous vessel comprising a hydrodynamic pump that converts the energy of ocean waves into electrical power when the vessel is floating adjacent to an upper surface of an ocean, and utilizes a portion of the generated electrical power produced to charge an electrical energy storage device. The vessel may submerge itself, and then propel itself beneath the water's surface, after which it may return to the surface and resume its production of electrical energy and recharge its electrical energy storage device.
Disclosed is an apparatus that adapts the rate of its computational work to match the availability of energy harvested from a stochastic energy source; and, with respect to some types of energy harvesting, regulates the rate of energy capture, the rate of energy conversion, and the rate of consumption of stored potential energy, through its alteration, regulation, and/or adjustment, of that same computational work load.
A system that maintains the relative and/or absolute geographical positions of two or more buoyant devices floating in a body of water. A plurality of formation restoring tethers are disclosed which permit the unrestricted vertical movement of networked buoyant devices, while resisting increases in their lateral separations by providing restoring forces to oppose such separations. Tensioning mechanisms incorporated into the tethers generate the resistance to the lateral separations of two or more entities by transforming such separations into an increase in the potential energy stored within such tensioning mechanisms, the potential energy of which is released in the process of restoring the original separations and/or positions of the displaced buoyant devices.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03D 9/25 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent caractérisés par l’appareil entrainé l’appareil étant un générateur électrique
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
An energy-harvesting compute grid includes computing assemblies that cooperate with mobile energy harvesters configured to be deployed on a body of water. The plurality of energy harvesters are positioned on and move adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water, and the locations of the energy harvesters can be monitored and controlled. The wide-spread gathering by the harvesters of environmental data within that geospatial area permits the forecasting of environmental factors, the discovery of advantageous energy-harvesting opportunities, the observation and tracking of hazardous objects and conditions, the efficient distribution of data and/or tasks to and between the harvesters included in the compute grid, the efficient execution of logistical operations to support, upgrade, maintain, and repair the cluster, and the opportunity to execute data-gathering across an area much larger than that afforded by an individual harvester (e.g., radio astronomy, 3D tracking of and recording of the communication patterns of marine mammals, etc.). The computational tasks can be shared and distributed among a compute grid implemented in part by a collection of individual floating self-propelled energy harvesters thereby providing many benefits related to cost and efficiency that are unavailable to relatively isolated energy harvesters, and likewise unavailable to terrestrial compute grids of the prior art.
G05D 1/02 - Commande de la position ou du cap par référence à un système à deux dimensions
G05D 1/00 - Commande de la position, du cap, de l'altitude ou de l'attitude des véhicules terrestres, aquatiques, aériens ou spatiaux, p.ex. pilote automatique
G01C 21/20 - Instruments pour effectuer des calculs de navigation
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
F03D 9/00 - Adaptations des mécanismes moteurs à vent pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec les appareils qu’ils entrainent; Mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation dans des endroits particuliers
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
An energy farm having an electrical grid through which power generated by the devices in the farm may be combined and transmitted. The electrical grid is formed through the electrical interconnection of devices in a farm through electrical connections that remain, in whole or at least in part, adjacent to the surface of the body of water on which the devices float. A plurality of converters of the network have no direct or immediate electrical interface with a subsea power cable (i.e. a cable on or under the seafloor), but instead transmit electricity to other converters in a daisy-chained fashion.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power.
E02B 9/08 - Installations pour l'utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03G 7/08 - Mécanismes produisant une puissance mécanique, non prévus ailleurs ou utilisant une source d'énergie non prévue ailleurs récupérant l'énergie produite par le balancement, le roulement, le tangage ou des mouvements semblabes, p.ex. par les vibrations d'une machine
Disclosed is an apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass. Passing waves cause a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting of sufficient magnitude and duration allows a fluid to flow through a channel. Flowing water is trapped at a plurality of levels which in an un-tilted apparatus are higher than the respective levels from which the fluid has flowed. A subsequent tilt of the apparatus in a sufficiently different direction, and of a sufficient magnitude and duration, causes the trapped water to flow to new, yet higher levels. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a height and/or head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be released, and/or converted to electrical power.
E02B 9/08 - Installations pour l'utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03G 7/08 - Mécanismes produisant une puissance mécanique, non prévus ailleurs ou utilisant une source d'énergie non prévue ailleurs récupérant l'énergie produite par le balancement, le roulement, le tangage ou des mouvements semblabes, p.ex. par les vibrations d'une machine
Disclosed is a novel device that converts some of the power in ocean waves into electrical power or other means of performing useful work. One or more tubes are arranged so that when the device is in position in a body of water, the tubes are oriented vertically with one end positioned proximate to and/or above the surface of the body of water on which the device floats, and with the other end positioned below the surface of that body of water. In some embodiments, through a differential restriction on the flow of air in and out of an upper end of the tube, the average height of the water inside the tube is different from the average height of the water outside the tube. In some embodiments, a hollow void inside a flotation structure of the embodiment is filled with water to contribute significant mass to the embodiment and increase the momentum associated with its vertical oscillations. Additional elements of the present disclosure include features that protect the device from damage during periods of large waves, and facilitate the powering and cooling of computers and/or other electronic equipment operated therein.
Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from winds that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
A computing apparatus that is integrated within a flotation module, the system obtaining the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of a body of water on which the flotation module sets. Additionally, the self-powered computing apparatus employs novel designs to utilize its close proximity to the body of water and/or to strong ocean winds to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits.
B63B 22/18 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées comportant des moyens pour régler l'assiette ou la position, p.ex. des surfaces de réaction ou des orins
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
B63H 21/00 - Aménagements de l'appareil moteur de propulsion ou de certains de ses éléments pour utilisation à bord des navires
B63B 39/06 - Installations pour diminuer le tangage, le roulis ou autres mouvements similaires indésirables du navire; Appareils pour indiquer l'assiette du navire réduisant les mouvements du navire par l'effet d'ailerons agissant sur l'eau ambiante
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
G09C 1/00 - Appareils ou méthodes au moyen desquels une suite donnée de signes, p.ex. un texte intelligible, est transformée en une suite de signes inintelligibles en transposant les signes ou groupes de signes ou en les remplaçant par d'autres suivant un systèm
H04L 9/32 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité comprenant des moyens pour vérifier l'identité ou l'autorisation d'un utilisateur du système
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
Disclosed is a system for deploying, stationing, and translocating buoyant wind- and wave-energy converters and/or other buoyant structures or devices, as well as farms of same. Also disclosed is a novel apparatus and/or machine comprising a farm of buoyant wave energy converters deployed by said method and/or configured to be deployed by said method.
F03B 13/00 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
F03D 9/00 - Adaptations des mécanismes moteurs à vent pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec les appareils qu’ils entrainent; Mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation dans des endroits particuliers
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03D 3/00 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent avec axe de rotation sensiblement perpendiculaire au flux d'air pénétrant dans le rotor
H02K 7/075 - Moyens de transformation d'un mouvement alternatif en un mouvement circulaire ou vice versa utilisant des manivelles ou des excentriques
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
F03D 13/10 - Assemblage de mécanismes moteurs à vent; Dispositions pour l’érection de mécanismes moteurs à vent
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tube's constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of the water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air or gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the device's pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 17/06 - Autres "machines" ou machines motrices utilisant un écoulement de liquide, p.ex. du type à clapets oscillants
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
B63B 22/18 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées comportant des moyens pour régler l'assiette ou la position, p.ex. des surfaces de réaction ou des orins
A buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that can float on a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. The pump incorporates an open-bottomed tube with a constriction. The tube partially encloses a substantial volume of water with which the tubes constriction interacts, creating and/or amplifying oscillations therein in response to wave action. Wave-driven oscillations result in periodic upward ejections of portions of water inside the tube that can be collected in a reservoir that is at least partially positioned above the mean water level of the body of water, or pressurized by compressed air, gas, or both. Water within such a reservoir may return to the body of water via a turbine, thereby generating electrical power (making the device a wave engine), or else the devices pumping action can be used for other purposes such as water circulation, propulsion, or cloud seeding.
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.
F03B 13/00 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
H02P 9/04 - Commande s'exerçant sur un moteur primaire non électrique et dépendant de la valeur d'une caractéristique électrique à la sortie de la génératrice
Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from winds that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoy's receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
Disclosed is a novel type of computing apparatus which is integrated within a buoy that obtains the energy required to power its computing operations from winds that travel across the surface of the body of water on which the buoy floats. Additionally, these self-powered computing buoys utilize their close proximity to a body of water in order to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits. Computing tasks of an arbitrary nature are supported, as is the incorporation and/or utilization of computing circuits specialized for the execution of specific types of computing tasks. And, each buoys receipt of a computational task, and its return of a computational result, may be accomplished through the transmission of data across satellite links, fiber optic cables, LAN cables, radio, modulated light, microwaves, and/or any other channel, link, connection, and/or network.
F03D 9/10 - Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec un appareil emmagasinant de l’énergie
F03D 9/11 - Combinaisons des mécanismes moteurs à vent avec un appareil emmagasinant de l’énergie emmagasinant de l’énergie électrique
F03D 9/20 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent caractérisés par l’appareil entrainé
F03D 9/34 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation dans des endroits particuliers sur des objets stationnaires ou des structures stationnaires faites par l’homme
F03D 13/10 - Assemblage de mécanismes moteurs à vent; Dispositions pour l’érection de mécanismes moteurs à vent
B63B 22/24 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées de type conteneur, c. à d. comportant des dispositions pour l'entreposage du matériel
91.
SELF-POWERED, SELF-PROPELLED COMPUTE GRID WITH LOOP TOPOLOGY
An energy-harvesting compute grid includes computing assemblies that cooperate with mobile energy harvesters configured to be deployed on a body of water. The plurality of energy harvesters are positioned on and move adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water, and the locations of the energy harvesters can be monitored and controlled. The widespread gathering by the harvesters of environmental data within that geospatial area permits the forecasting of environmental factors, the discovery of advantageous energy-harvesting opportunities, the observation and tracking of hazardous objects and conditions, the efficient distribution of data and/or tasks to and between the harvesters included in the compute grid, the efficient execution of logistical operations to support, upgrade, maintain, and repair the cluster, and the opportunity to execute data-gathering across an area much larger than that afforded by an individual harvester (e.g., radio astronomy, 3D tracking of and recording of the communication patterns of marine mammals, etc.). The computational tasks can be shared and distributed among a compute grid implemented in part by a collection of individual floating self-propelled energy harvesters thereby providing many benefits related to cost and efficiency that are unavailable to relatively isolated energy harvesters, and likewise unavailable to terrestrial compute grids of the prior art.
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 15/14 - Régulation, c. à d. agissant automatiquement par le niveau ou du niveau du liquide
B63B 35/44 - Constructions, magasins, plates-formes de forage ou ateliers flottants, p.ex. portant des appareils séparateurs huile-eau
B63B 3/04 - Coques assemblées à partir de sous-ensembles préfabriqués à sous-ensembles reliés en permanence
Disclosed is a novel device that converts some of the power in ocean waves into electrical power or other means of performing useful work. One or more tubes are arranged so that when the device is in position in a body of water, the tubes are oriented vertically with one end positioned proximate to and/or above the surface of the body of water on which the device floats, and with the other end positioned below the surf ace of that body of water. In some embodiments, through a differential restriction on the flow of air in and out of an upper end of the tube, the average height of the water inside the tube is different from the average height of the water outside the tube. In some embodiments, a hollow void inside a flotation structure of the embodiment is filled with water
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
F01B 21/04 - Combinaisons de plusieurs "machines" ou machines motrices les "machines" ou machines motrices n'étant pas toutes du type à piston alternatif, p.ex. du type machines alternatives à vapeur et turbines à vapeur
F01D 25/30 - Têtes d'évacuation, chambres ou parties analogues
F02C 3/32 - Introduction d'un flux d'air par un jet de fluide, p.ex. par l'action d'un éjecteur
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F16D 31/02 - Accouplements ou embrayages à fluide avec des groupes de pompage du type volumétrique, c. à d. dans lesquels passe un volume déterminé de liquide par tour de pompe utilisant des pompes à pistons ou à plongeurs travaillant dans des cylindres
Disclosed is a novel buoyant device that extracts energy from winds and waves moving across the surface of a body of water and supplies at least a portion 5 of that energy to an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). An embodiment operates in deep water, potentially far from shore, and operates at least one UUV for the purpose of exploring the local water column and adjacent seafloor.
Disclosed is a novel device that converts some of the power in ocean waves into electrical power or other means of performing useful work. One or more tubes are arranged so that when the device is in position in a body of water, the tubes are oriented vertically with one end positioned proximate to and/or above the surface of the body of water on which the device floats, and with the other end positioned below the surface of that body of water. In some embodiments, through a differential restriction on the flow of air in and out of an upper end of the tube, the average height of the water inside the tube is different from the average height of the water outside the tube. In some embodiments, a hollow void inside a flotation structure of the embodiment is filled with water to contribute significant mass to the embodiment and increase the momentum associated with its vertical oscillations. Additional elements of the present disclosure include features that protect the device from damage during periods of large waves, and facilitate the powering and cooling of computers and/or other electronic equipment operated therein.
A computing apparatus that is integrated within a flotation module, the system obtaining the energy required to power its computing operations from waves that travel across the surface of a body of water on which the flotation module sets. Additionally, the self-powered computing apparatus employs novel designs to utilize its close proximity to the body of water and/or to strong ocean winds to significantly lower the cost and complexity of cooling their computing circuits.
B63B 22/18 - Coffres d'amarrage ou bouées comportant des moyens pour régler l'assiette ou la position, p.ex. des surfaces de réaction ou des orins
B63H 21/00 - Aménagements de l'appareil moteur de propulsion ou de certains de ses éléments pour utilisation à bord des navires
B63B 39/06 - Installations pour diminuer le tangage, le roulis ou autres mouvements similaires indésirables du navire; Appareils pour indiquer l'assiette du navire réduisant les mouvements du navire par l'effet d'ailerons agissant sur l'eau ambiante
F03B 13/24 - Utilisation de l'énergie des vagues pour produire un déplacement d'air, p.ex. pour entraîner une turbine à air
H04L 9/06 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité l'appareil de chiffrement utilisant des registres à décalage ou des mémoires pour le codage par blocs, p.ex. système DES
G09C 1/00 - Appareils ou méthodes au moyen desquels une suite donnée de signes, p.ex. un texte intelligible, est transformée en une suite de signes inintelligibles en transposant les signes ou groupes de signes ou en les remplaçant par d'autres suivant un systèm
H04L 9/32 - Dispositions pour les communications secrètes ou protégées; Protocoles réseaux de sécurité comprenant des moyens pour vérifier l'identité ou l'autorisation d'un utilisateur du système
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
A wave energy converter generates power from a wave-induced separation of a positively buoyant flotation module and a submerged negatively buoyant mass, using a rotating pulley to drive a power-take-off system.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
H02K 3/52 - Fixation des enroulements de pôles saillants ou de leurs connexions
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F16H 19/06 - Transmissions comportant essentiellement et uniquement des engrenages ou des organes de friction et qui ne peuvent transmettre un mouvement rotatif indéfini pour convertir un mouvement rotatif en mouvement alternatif et vice versa comportant un organe flexible sans fin
F16H 39/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide utilisant des pompes et des moteurs du type volumétrique, c. à d. débitant un volume prédéterminé de fluide à chaque révolution
F16H 41/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide du type hydrocinétique
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
97.
Self-propelled buoyant energy converter and method for deploying same
Disclosed is a novel method, process, and system (hereinafter “method” or “process”) for deploying, stationing, and translocating buoyant wind- and wave-energy converters and/or other buoyant structures or devices, as well as farms of same. Also disclosed is a novel apparatus and/or machine comprising a farm of buoyant wave energy converters deployed by said method and/or configured to be deployed by said method.
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03D 3/00 - Mécanismes moteurs à vent avec axe de rotation sensiblement perpendiculaire au flux d'air pénétrant dans le rotor
F03D 13/25 - Dispositions pour monter ou supporter des mécanismes moteurs à vent; Pylônes ou tours pour des mécanismes moteurs à vent spécialement adaptés à l’installation offshore
F03D 13/10 - Assemblage de mécanismes moteurs à vent; Dispositions pour l’érection de mécanismes moteurs à vent
A wave energy converter generates power from a wave-induced separation of a positively buoyant flotation module and a submerged negatively buoyant mass, using a rotating pulley to drive a power-take-off system.
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F16H 19/06 - Transmissions comportant essentiellement et uniquement des engrenages ou des organes de friction et qui ne peuvent transmettre un mouvement rotatif indéfini pour convertir un mouvement rotatif en mouvement alternatif et vice versa comportant un organe flexible sans fin
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
H02K 3/52 - Fixation des enroulements de pôles saillants ou de leurs connexions
F16H 39/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide utilisant des pompes et des moteurs du type volumétrique, c. à d. débitant un volume prédéterminé de fluide à chaque révolution
F16H 41/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide du type hydrocinétique
A wave energy converter generates power from a wave-induced separation of a positively buoyant flotation module and a submerged negatively buoyant mass, using a rotating pulley to drive a power-take-off system.
F03B 13/20 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément les deux éléments étant mobiles par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
F16H 19/06 - Transmissions comportant essentiellement et uniquement des engrenages ou des organes de friction et qui ne peuvent transmettre un mouvement rotatif indéfini pour convertir un mouvement rotatif en mouvement alternatif et vice versa comportant un organe flexible sans fin
H02K 7/18 - Association structurelle de génératrices électriques à des moteurs mécaniques d'entraînement, p.ex. à des turbines
F03B 13/16 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément
F03B 13/12 - Adaptations des "machines" ou machines motrices pour une utilisation particulière; Combinaisons des "machines" ou machines motrices avec les appareils entraînés ou qu'ils entraînent; Centrales électriques ou ensembles machine-appareil caractérisés par leur utilisation de l'énergie des vagues ou des marées
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F16H 41/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide du type hydrocinétique
F16H 39/00 - Transmissions rotatives à fluide utilisant des pompes et des moteurs du type volumétrique, c. à d. débitant un volume prédéterminé de fluide à chaque révolution
100.
Wave energy device with constricted tube and generator pod
A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
F03B 13/22 - Utilisation de l'écoulement de l'eau résultant du mouvement des vagues, p.ex. pour entraîner un moteur hydraulique ou une turbine
F03B 13/18 - Utilisation du mouvement relatif entre un élément déplacé par les vagues et un autre élément l'autre élément étant fixé, à au moins un point, par rapport au fond ou au bord de la mer
