Method for capturing, channeling, concentrating and harnessing the dynamic pressure energy of wind, within a structure
a technology of dynamic pressure energy and wind energy, applied in the field of capturing, channeling, concentrating and harnessing the dynamic pressure energy of wind energy, within the structure, can solve the problems of complex and difficult design of buildings in hurricane zones, tornado alleys and other high wind prone areas, and not only difficult to achieve, but exceedingly difficult to achieve, so as to prevent the loss of any of this dynamic pressure energy, green energy, and the effect of maximizing the energy of the available wind energy
Inactive Publication Date: 2010-08-26
FEX JR JAMES PATRICK
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[0039]This embodiment can involve the installation of insulation just below the roof surface, or even on top of it. For the past 100+ years, the surface between the attic area and enclosed living and working areas has been insulated, and the attic was allowed to gain heat. Sealing the attic to outdoors will allow heat to increase in the attic area, unless the insulation is moved to below the roof. Moving the insulation is not critical to the design of a single pressure vessel, but instead is just a recommendation that will allow for energy savings. Applicant feels that if insulation is installed at the building's roof, then insulation is not required at the attic ceiling surface located between the attic areas, and the enclosed living and working areas.
[0061]There are many advantages of this type of structure over all previous attempts. Most previous designs for a wind power generating structure minimize the structure so as to maximize the turbine's exposure to wind. Since the flow comes from within the structure, applicant's ideas can easily maximize both the size of the structure and the size of the electrical turbine without any loss of performance or efficiency. Applicant's calculations show that there are no limitations to the number of electrical turbines, the size of the turbines, or even the combined weight of the turbines. With his design the structure can simply be made larger and stronger to accept all possible variations, regardless of height. Plus, applicant's design is the most fatigue failure resistant of any design he ever found throughout his research, it will not suffer from Coriolis Force problems, or vibration problems, due to the mass of the structure. Making it extremely safe for inter city applications. Applicant shows a square structure in his drawings, but any shape is possible and it can even narrow or flare out at the top or bottom, or bend around other structures, for architectural appeal. No other current wind system has all of these combined capabilities.
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The design of buildings in hurricane zones, tornado alleys and other high wind prone areas is a complicated and difficult issue that has undergone much study and scrutiny over the years.
Construction designs that are resistant to these strong, high, winds and the associated dramatic pressure fluctuations and differentials; are not only difficult to accomplish, but exceedingly difficult to accomplish, when guided by prior art assumptions.
Assumptions concerning the design of buildings have been determined by the applicant to be, by and large, inaccurate, if not totally incorrect.
These prevalent mistakes have resulted in individual buildings that incorporate multiple, yet totally separate and individual, pressure vessels, with shared vessel walls that end up working against one another and weakening all of the areas involved, which in turn weakens the entire building.
This common error in design has in turn lead to the premature failure of buildings during hurricanes, tornadoes and even excessive straight-line winds.
As these atmospheric pressure differentials pass over or even near these multiple pressure vessel buildings, the pressure differences generated between these individual and totally separate, pressure vessels, such as the enclosed, sealed, living and / or working area, the leaky attic area, the sealed roof cavities, the sealed interstitial areas, sealed floor cavities, sealed roof cavities and sealed wall cavities, etc. . . . , that share common vessel walls, dramatically increase and can lead to the premature failure of said buildings.
It is these uncontrolled pressure differences, between these connected but totally separate and individual pressure vessels, some with shared walls, working against one another, that can literally pull, compress, tear and blow a building apart.
Resulting in ever increasing negative pressure effects on roughly 75% of the skin, or outer edge, of a standard building as the wind increases, resulting in ever increasing negative pressure buildings.
He quickly determined that the dramatic low pressures and strong winds flowing over roofs during a strong storm are insufficient on their own to pull a roof from a single building, so he turned his attention to the energy these low pressures and winds generate.
Static pressure sensors will not accurately measure velocity / dynamic pressures, nor will they ever measure them quickly enough.
All before the applicant have attempted to measure the differential pressure of a standard building during a storm, and even during normal wind conditions, using static pressure sensors and theory, therefore they have always failed.
By then the damage to the building's structure will have already occurred.
This can cause these sealed wall cavities to actually inflate and expand before the air can further infiltrate into the building core.
This expansion can weaken everything connected to these wall cavities such as windows, doors, roofs, etc. . . . It can progress to the point that windows, doors and roofs are actually blown out of the building.
Therefore, if wall relief openings are employed as taught by previous patents, all of them could also be blown open by this dynamic pressure and lead to the assured destruction of the building.
Whether deflating or inflating, the result is the same, over time and many, many storms, or just one strong storm, all connections in and to these exterior wall cavities are weakened, including roof tie downs.
Once the building core begins to experience the ever increasing positive pressure, it will also weaken as it inflates.
Over time the ever increasing pressure differentials between these totally separate pressure vessels with shared vessel walls, begin to tear and pull against one another, further weakening the entire building structure.
Applicant says they have never truly understood the real problem, so they have failed every time they tried to solve it.
This attempt at an improvement failed to produce noticeable results.
If one does not know the real problem, then they can never solve it and they are doomed to treat the symptoms of the real problem.
The real problem is run away positive building pressure that eventually blows the roof off of the building.
In high rise buildings this run away positive building pressure on the individual floors blows the windows out.
Both flat and sloped roofs failed to provide the smooth, streamlined air flow pattern required to provide a sufficient aerodynamic lifting force, especially when dormers, chimneys, roof vents, etc., were added to the calculations.
And yes, applicant is saying that a lifting force definitely exist on the roof, it is just dramatically insufficient to lift the roof from a standard building.
The perpendicular lifting force along the sides of the building will render wall mounted relief valves inefficient, if not totally inoperative.
All before the applicant have failed to understand this important phenomenon, so their attempts at protecting a standard building during high winds, have totally failed as they just treated the symptoms of the real problem.
All of which would fail when the power fails.
It is just these large pressure differentials generated by the outdoor low pressure event and the inflated high pressures that build up within these enclosed sealed interior areas of the building, due to wind intrusion, that create the potential for the explosion of these enclosed sealed, separate, pressure vessels of the building, and consequently the building itself, leading to a catastrophic failure of the entire structure.
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[0068]An embodiment of the present invention is illustrated by way of example in FIGS. 1-4. With specific reference to FIGS. 1, 2 and 4, a single pressure vessel 12, a new or existing building 10, that has a sealed attic 56, or sealed roof cavity 60, that is not ventilated / opened to outdoors 32. According to one embodiment the present invention includes, in a building 10, with single or multiple floors, floor surfaces 36, floor cavities 38, ceiling surfaces 50, ceiling cavities 52, exterior wall surfaces 40, exterior wall cavities 42, interior wall surfaces 44, interior wall cavities 46, sealed attic 56, attic ceiling surfaces 54. The sealed outer edge surface 22 is shown with a thick black line.
[0069]This sealed outer edge surface 22 is used to establish the outer edge of the single pressure vessel 12. Therefore, all of the interior areas within a single, continuous sealed outer edge surface 22, that are marked 12, are interior areas of the same, single pressure vessel. Various pos...
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A method of capturing, channeling, concentrating and harnessing the dynamic pressure energy of wind, within a structure for the first time, to operate any type, form, size or shape of pressure operable device, including but not limited to, automatic, pressure relief dampers, vents, openings or valves and any applicable electrical power generator. This method includes structures built as single pressure vessels where all of the interior areas can communicate. Single strong vessels will operate at uniform pressures and withstand substantially higher winds and the associated increased dynamic pressure challenges, than structures with interior areas that do not communicate. Further resistance can be accomplished by adding automatic openings at the vessel's outer edge surface that will relieve interior pressure buildups to outdoors, before uncontrolled pressures cause catastrophic structure failure. Previous attempts failed to detect this dynamic pressure energy and mistakenly using automated systems and static pressure theory and sensors.
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[0001]This application is a continuation in part of Ser. No. 11 / 401,566, filed on Apr. 11, 2006 and applicant claims priority based on that date.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]Applicant is the first inventor to conceive and produce a working prototype of a method of capturing, channeling, concentrating and harnessing the dynamic pressure energy of wind, within a structure, to operate any type, form, size and shape of pressure operable device including but not limited to; automatic, pressure relief dampers, vents, openings or valves and any applicable type, form, size or shape of electrical power generator. This method includes structures built to withstand strong, high wind challenges. In particular, structures with one or more floors that will be constructed as single pressure vessels, where all of the rooms, cavities, floors and all other interior areas can communicate, through the use of transfer openings and / or automatic, pressure operated, pressure relief openings. Instead of the ...
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CPCE04H9/14Y02A50/00
InventorFEX, JR., JAMES PATRICK
OwnerFEX JR JAMES PATRICK