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An electromagnetic linear generator and regenerative electromagnetic shock absorber is disclosed which converts variable frequency, repetitive intermittent linear displacement motion to useful electrical power. The innovative device provides for superposition of radial components of the magnetic flux density from a plurality of adjacent magnets to produce a maximum average radial magnetic flux density within a coil winding array. Due to the vector superposition of the magnetic fields and magnetic flux from a plurality of magnets, a nearly four-fold increase in magnetic flux density is achieved over conventional electromagnetic generator designs with a potential sixteen-fold increase in power generating capacity. As a regenerative shock absorber, the disclosed device is capable of converting parasitic displacement motion and vibrations encountered under normal urban driving conditions to a useful electrical energy for powering vehicles and accessories or charging batteries in electric and fossil fuel powered vehicles. The disclosed device is capable of high power generation capacity and energy conversion efficiency with minimal weight penalty for improved fuel efficiency.

A system for controlled recovery of thermal energy and conversion to mechanical energy. The system collects thermal energy from a reciprocating engine (for example, from engine jacket fluid) and may also collect further thermal energy from a natural gas compressor (for example, from compressor lubricating fluid). The collected thermal energy is used to generate secondary power by evaporating an organic propellant and using the gaseous propellant to drive an expander in production of mechanical energy. Secondary power is used to power parasitic loads, improving energy efficiency of the system. A supplementary cooler may provide additional cooling capacity without compromising system energy efficiency.

The present invention provides a photovoltaic device having an active face, an active area on the active face and an operating wavelength range; and a cover element attached to the photovoltaic device and disposed over the active area of the active face of the photovoltaic element, the cover element having an opacity of at least about 25%. The present invention also provides photovoltaic systems, arrays, roofs and methods using such photovoltaic devices. In one embodiment of the invention, the photovoltaic device is a photovoltaic roofing element in which a photovoltaic element is integrated with a roofing substrate.

A method and apparatus for renewable power generation utilizes the chemical potential dissimilarity between solutions of differing ionic formulations. A train is formed by a sequentially ordered set of a plurality of cells in which each successive cell is related to the preceding cell. Each cell has pumping means and hydro-power generation turbine means to form a closed hydraulic loop configured for specified volumetric and flow capacity. Adjacent cells share semipermeable membranes. Each cell is charged with a brine of specified ionizable inorganic salt quantity and type with the brine being cycled in a controlled concentration-pressure loop, with each of the cells operating at progressively increasing concentration and osmotic pressure ratio. A continuous and constant flow rate of substantially salt-free permeate flux is maintained across each cell, the flux being osmotically induced from low salt concentration water being fed at the first cell in the train and exiting at the last cell along with the discarded high concentration water brine. The salt-free permeate flux is continuously induced, in symbiotic mode, through the shared membranes, driven by the chemical influence of concentration potential field bounded by water of low to no salt concentration on one end of the train and by brine of high salt concentration on the other end of the train with sufficient concentration difference to provide driving force for said plurality of cells, while maintaining adequate concentration difference between adjacent cells to enhance osmosis function, as well as defining a concentration ratio within each cell to ensure a net positive power generation.

The present invention is a system and method for steam production for oil production. The method includes generating steam, mixing the steam with water containing solids and organics, separating solids, and injecting the steam through an injection well or using it above ground for oil recovery, such as for generating hot process water. The system includes a steam drive direct contact steam generator. The water feed of the present invention can be hot produced water separated from a produced oil emulsion and/or low quality water salvaged from industrial plants, such as refineries and tailings from an oilsands mine.

The ocean wave energy converter uniquely includes a generator with a rotating inner rotor surrounded by a counter-rotating outer rotor for generating electricity. A reciprocating drive rod drives the inner rotor on the downstroke of the drive rod and the outer rotor on the upstroke of the drive rod through a gear driven driveshaft with clutches. A buoy is attached to end of the drive rod whereby the undulation of the ocean waves relative to the buoy reciprocates the drive rod between the upstroke and the downstroke positions.

Controlling a power converter circuit for a direct current (DC) power source is disclosed. The power converter may be operative to convert input power received from the DC power source to an output power and to perform maximum power point tracking of the power source. The power converter is adapted to provide the output power to a load that also performs maximum power point tracking.

An integrated control system includes a main control system (accelerator) controlling a driving system, a main control system (brake) controlling a brake system, and a main control system (steering) controlling a steering system, based on manipulation by a driver, as well as an adviser unit generating and providing information to be used at each main control system based on environmental information around a vehicle or information related to a driver. The advisor unit executes a program including the steps of: sensing a vehicle state, driver's manipulation, and environmental information; operating an expected value by the driver with regard to a driving force; performing distribution processing of a braking/driving torque; and operating a distribution ratio so as to carry out distribution.

A novel broadband wind-induced vibration piezoelectric energy collector is composed of a movement input acceleration module, a movement output conversion module and an energy collecting module. The movement input acceleration module is composed of a fan, an input shaft, a bearing A, an inner engagement small gear, a bearing B, a bearing D, a flat key A, a flat key B, a bolt, a shell, a bearing C and a planetary gear train. The movement output conversion module is composed of an output shaft, an inclined disc, a bearing E, a linear bearing, a central base bent rod, a slide rod and a connection rod. The energy collecting module is composed of a base block, a cantilever beam and a piezoelectric patch. The working process of the broadband wind-induced vibration piezoelectric energy collector includes the steps that a broadband wind-induced vibration piezoelectric vibration energy collector is assembled; and secondly, the fan is blown by natural wind, rotation movement is transmitted to the planetary gear train in the movement input acceleration module, and at the same time, the movement output conversion module and the energy collecting module do corresponding movement. The broadband wind-induced vibration piezoelectric energy collector overcomes the defect that by means of existing design, wind energy in the low-speed state with unceasingly-changing wind speed cannot be effectively collected.

The efficiency of a PV power generation system (10) is maximised by an apparatus providing series of electronic units (20) connected to the PV modules (12) and comprising microprocessor controlled DC converters/power supply units. A managing unit (60) communicates with the electronic units (20) of a string (11) in order to carry out a synergic optimization of the efficiency both of the single PV modules (12) and of the entire string (11). The apparatus also provides PV module (12) by PV module (12) diagnostic features and it is able to communicate with external devices for a full system control.

The invention discloses a solar thermal power high-temperature long shaft molten salt pump. The solar thermal power high-temperature long shaft molten salt pump comprises a pump shaft, a hydraulic part, a supporting vibration reduction structure, a fluid seal structure and a bearing cooling device are sequentially arranged on the pump shaft from bottom to top, a suction segment is arranged at the front end of the hydraulic part, a blade grid type filter is arranged on the front end of the suction segment, a tail stage flow guide shell is arranged at the tail end of the hydraulic part, the tail end of the tail stage flow guide shell and the front end of a supporting pipe of the supporting vibration reduction structure are fixedly connected, and the tail end of the supporting pipe of the supporting vibration reduction structure is fixedly connected with the bottom of the outlet segment of the fluid seal structure through a flange plate. The solar thermal power high-temperature long shaft molten salt pump is designed to be in the center flow-out manner, thermal expansion uniformity under the high-temperature state can be ensured, through solution schemes of reliable fluid seal design, reasonable cooling structures, flange type expansion joint vibration reduction configuration and the like, safe, reliable and efficient running of the solar thermal power high-temperature long shaft molten salt pump is ensured, and meanwhile, various property indexes are met.

The invention relates to a universal communication base station solar and wind energy centralized power supply system and a control method thereof and belongs to the field of new energy power generation technology and energy conservation. The communication base station new energy centralized power supply main loop and a communication base station monitor are used for providing a new energy power supply for the original base station alternating current and direct current power system. An embedded computer communication base station monitor consisting of a computer control technology and an artificial intelligent technology is adopted, and intelligent monitoring and control are realized. The designed solar maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller and a wind energy controller can detect the power generating voltage of a solar panel and a wind energy generator, and the highest voltage value is tracked, so that the system has the highest efficiency. The designed inverter is based on the full-digital control technology of digital signal processor (DSP), a high-frequency sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) and an advanced insulated gate bipolar translator (IGBT) module, so that the system has high efficiency.

The invention discloses a semiconductor temperature difference power generation fuel oil fan heater. The semiconductor temperature difference power generation fuel oil fan heater comprises a shell, acombustion chamber is arranged in the shell, a combustor is arranged in the combustion chamber, an inlet is formed in the front end of the combustor, multiple smoke outlets are formed in the rear endof the combustor, the smoke outlets communicate with space in the combustion chamber, a smoke channel is formed between the outer wall of the combustor and the combustion chamber, a smoke outlet is formed in one end of the combustion chamber, and the smoke channel is connected with a smoke cylinder through the smoke outlet, a temperature difference power generation module is arranged on the outerwall of the combustion chamber, and a twisting tooth type spiral fin radiator is arranged on the temperature difference power generation module. According to the device, electric amount can be generated while user heating is achieved, the electric amount is used for a power device, a parking heater with temperature difference power generation can sufficiently use the energy, and the semiconductortemperature difference power generation fuel oil fan heater can be widely used for heating of trucks, passenger cars and the like.

A light emitting display device equipped with a transparent crystal is disclosed which comprises an outer casing which is embedded under the ground and forms an outer structure; a transparent crystal member which is inserted into the interior of the outer casing and reflects light using a reflection mirror effect of an inner vertical wall surface of the same; a solar cell module which is impregnated into a space formed at a center lower surface of the transparent crystal member with the help of a molding liquid and concentrates a sunshine and converts a light energy into an electrical energy and changes the same; and a light emitting unit which is engaged at a lower surface of a surrounding portion of the transparent crystal member and emits light to the outside based on a power supply by means of the sunshine or the solar cell module.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional type solar photovoltaic assembly. The three-dimensional type solar photovoltaic assembly is characterized in that the solar photovoltaic assembly comprises a three-dimensional cell module; the three-dimensional cell module is a regular pyramid-shaped module composed of three blocks or more isosceles triangle solar cell sheets; the regular pyramid-shaped module has edges of which the number is identical with the number of the solar cell sheets; each solar cell sheet is adopted as a side surface of the regular pyramid-shaped module, and the light receiving surface of each solar cell sheet faces the inner side of the regular pyramid-shaped module; and a bottom surface notch of the regular pyramid-shaped module is adopted as a light receiving surface of the three-dimensional cell module. According to the three-dimensional type solar photovoltaic assembly of the invention, surface reflection can be decreased, and the solar light absorption rate of the solar photovoltaic assembly is increased.

A modular solar panel system facilitated to maximize the power generation from a solar module, configured to maximize power generation from a plurality of solar cells under conditions of partial shade or light obstruction. The modular solar panel system includes a crisscross network configuration arrays, wherein the solar cells are often subjected to at least partial shading and wherein the present invention provides innovative configurations to minimize the damage inflicted by the shadows.

The invention discloses a hydroelectric generator. The hydroelectric generator comprises a seat, a rotary shaft and a rotary wheel, wherein the seat, the rotary shaft and the rotary wheel are sequentially connected; more than one paddle is arranged on the rotary shaft; the seat is arranged in a concave shape; a penetrating water inlet tube is arranged on the seat; a high-pressure water pump is arranged on the water inlet tube; a first gas absorption tube, a flow division tube and a water outlet tube are connected to the seat; the flow division tube is communicated with the water outlet tube; a second gas absorption tube is connected to the flow division tube; a valve is arranged on each of the first gas absorption tube and the second gas absorption tube; a water pumping machine is arranged on the water outlet tube; a generator is arranged outside the seat; a belt wheel is arranged between the generator and the rotary wheel; and the generator and the rotary wheel are both connected with the belt wheel by virtue of a belt. The hydroelectric generator is simple in design, high in generating capacity, and high in working efficiency.

A method is described for controlling a water current turbine array which includes first and second pluralities of water current turbines operable to generate electricity from a water current. The method includes controlling respective power generation characteristics of the water current turbines in the array so as to maximise power generation of the array as a whole.

The invention discloses a power balance control method of a cascaded H-bridge photovoltaic grid-connected inverter, and aims to enable a three-phase common direct-current bus cascaded H-bridge photovoltaic grid-connected inverter to still operate normally when output power between photovoltaic arrays is seriously unbalanced. The method comprises the following steps: controlling the voltage of N common direct-current buses; selecting the output power instruction values of the N common direct current buses; performing no-static-error control on a power grid current; judging the working mode of the system, and calculating modulation waves of all H bridges by adopting different modulation wave calculation methods; and controlling the output voltages of all the three-level full-bridge LLC converters. By the adoption of the method, when the modulation degree of some H-bridge converters is larger than 1.155, the system can still operate normally, and the capacity of the three-phase common-direct-current bus cascaded H-bridge photovoltaic grid-connected inverter for coping with power imbalance is greatly improved.

The invention provides a thermoelectric power generation fuel oil parking heater based on a heat pipe. The thermoelectric power generation fuel oil parking heater based on the heat pipe comprises a shell provided with a smoke pipe, a control system of the whole device is installed on the shell, a combustion chamber with a smoke outlet is arranged in the shell, a combustor is arranged in the combustion chamber, a combustion air static pressure cavity is formed in one end of the combustor, a heat transfer device is installed on the outer wall of the combustor, the hot end of a thermoelectric power generation module is connected with the combustor through the heat transfer device, and the cold end of the thermoelectric power generation module is connected with a radiator through the heat transfer device. The electric quantity generated by the thermoelectric power generation module supplies power for a motor, an oil pump, an ignition device and the like, a combustion fan and a forced draught blower are driven by the motor, air fed by the forced draught blower transfers heat with the radiator for supplying heat for users, and the combustion fan provides air for burning the fuel in the combustion chamber. The thermoelectric power generation fuel oil parking heater based on the heat pipe can supply heat for the users, further can generate the electric quantity for being used by a selfpower utilization device, the thermoelectric power generation fuel oil parking heater based on the heat pipe can take full advantage of energy sources, and is widely used in heating of long-distancetrucks, passenger cars and the like.

A process for maximization and optimization of coal energy comprising the steps of Selection of old coal mine or coal bearing areas; surveying of the mine or coal bearing areas for preparing of the panels; hydro-geological survey and Geo-Mechanical survey of the panels of Step-II above; sub paneling and slicing of the survey panels of the step-II and III above; preparing of the surface of the panel of step-IV above for development for at least boring of the panels; underground/Channeling of the boreholes at the floor level of the coal; burning of the coal in said channel of step-vi; extraction of the heat from the prepared boreholes seam & simultaneously filling of the voids created by extraction; use of the extraction heat for conversion into steam energy; use of the steam energy for generation of electricity or any other alternate use.