4177 results about "Water turbine" patented technology

A power generating system wherein a variable speed turbine is mounted on top of a tower or tethered underwater. The reactive component of turbine generated electrical power is corrected automatically through electronic switched power-factor capacitor banks that are divided into sub-system modules coupled to a central turbine park sub-station. The sub-system modules are of a fixed size and are easily adaptable to different turbine generator types, sizes and groupings. By employing SCR switched power factor capacitors grouped in sub-system modules of fixed size, coupled to a central turbine park sub-station, the converter allows fast, real time control of the utility interconnected power line voltage or power factor.

The invention discloses a method for quickly measuring a blade of a large-sized water turbine, which is characterized by comprising the following steps: firstly, sticking a mark point to the surface of the blade, then shooting a group of photos from different angles as measured primary data, and inputting the data to a computer to carry out analytic processing; by carrying out image detection for the group of photos in a measurement software, identifying the mark point in each photo and positioning the center of the mark point, and matching the mark points with the same name; finally, reconstructing a three-dimensional coordinate of corresponding object points according to a plurality of two-dimensional coordinates of the mark points, fitting a sparse framework model of a target by the reconstructed three-dimensional mark points, then scanning the surface of the blade block by block by using a binocular grating scanning method to acquire a local dense point cloud, and aligning the dense point cloud to an overall coordinate system according to the local mark points to acquire a dense point model of the blade; and by comparing the dense point model with a CAD designed model after aligning, calculating a three-dimensional processing error of the surface of a workpiece.

A Straight blade type turbine has at least one two-dimensional blade positioned in parallel with and around a central axis of the turbine. The two-dimensional blade has a cross section with a blade chord turned around a center of the two-dimensional blade by an angle of 3° to −2° relative to a line perpendicular to another imaginary line connecting the central axis with the center of the two-dimensional blade. A distance between a fore end and the center of the cross section is 15 to 40 percent of a chord length of the blade. NC/R, which is calculated by a radius R extending from the axis to the center of two-dimensional blade, the chord length C, and the number N of the two-dimensional blades, is between 0.5 and 2.2. A maximum thickness of the two-dimensional blade is between 20 and 25 percent of the chord length. The turbine has a strut blade having a symmetric cross section joining the two-dimensional blade to a side of the central axis, the strut blade having a maximum thickness which is between 15 and 20 percent of a chord length of the strut blade.

The invention relates to a water turbine blade blank profile measuring and machining allowance analyzing method capable of effectively solving the problem of water turbine blade blank profile measurement and machining allowance analysis to ensure the manufacturing quality and precision of the water turbine blades, comprising the following technical solutions: measuring the blade blanks by using a digital close range photogrammetry to obtain the measuring point cloud data shapes of the blank profiles consequently, aligning a measuring coordinate system where the measuring point clouds are located to a design coordinate system where a CAD design model is located, establishing a differential relation of free-form surface parameters with respect to rigid rotation parameters by using an analytic method derived by the multivariate of Newton iteration method to obtain a Jacobian matrix and Hessian matrix which are available for a target equation; then performing the numerical optimization calculation based on the LM method and Newton iteration method, and performing report or graphical output and print on the result. The inventive method is scientific, advanced, stable and reliable, and has high accuracy, thereby ensuring the hydraulic stability, production efficiency and cavitation property, and bringing enormous economic and social benefits.

A system for providing electrical power from a current turbine is provided. The system includes a floatation device and a mooring. A water turbine structure is provided having an upper and lower portion wherein the lower portion includes a water fillable chamber. A plurality of cables are used to couple the system where a first cable couples the water turbine to the mooring and a second cable couples the floatation device to the first cable. The system is arranged to allow the turbine structure to be deployed and retrieved for service, repair, maintenance and redeployment.

A ducted water turbine is configured to be installed in a subsea environment to generate hydroelectric power and broadly includes a turbine housing, a turbine rotor, and a generator. The turbine rotor includes a peripheral rim and a plurality of rotor blades mounted to and extending radially inwardly from the rim. The turbine housing includes a duct that permits water to flow through the housing. The peripheral rim is rotatably mounted in the duct, with the water flow causing the turbine rotor to spin. The turbine rotor is drivingly connected to the generator and powers the generator when the turbine rotor is spun by the water flow.

A simple system is provided to dramatically reduce the number of bird fatalities and injuries, as these are bird-kills that man should be able to do something about. Essentially, the inventive apparatus comprises one or more instantaneously inflatable mini-airbags on turbine blade leading edges which, in the “stowed position” are tightly conformally elastically wrapped around or juxtaposed to the turbine blade surface(s) and/or edges(s) thereby not affecting the blade's aerodynamic efficiency. The airbag(s) can be activated and restowed or recollapsed very rapidly, thereby not significantly negatively impacting the operational efficiency of the wind machine. In a similar manner, fish-kills or injuries taking place in the turbine impellers of hydroelectric power-generator facilities may be avoided (as opposed to ameliorated) using another inventive system and method taught herein, this one being primarily a collision avoidance system which does not require the problematic alteration of the turbine blades themselves.

A small generator includes a hydraulic turbine provided in a fluid path rotating with a passage of a fluid in a predetermined flow and a rotator coupled to the hydraulic turbine rotating together with the hydraulic turbine which acts as a rotor portion opposed to a stator portion having multiple layers in a stepping motor including the stator portion, wherein the rotor portion relatively rotates with respect to the stator portion with the passage of the fluid, thereby generating a power.

The invention relates to a method and device for desalting sea water and generating electricity by utilizing tidal energy drive. The high sea water in the sea when in rising tide is utilized to impact a water turbine to rotate in the process of flowing into an impounding reservoir, or the high sea water in the impounding reservoir when in ebbing is utilized to impact the water turbine to rotate in the process of flowing into the sea; the water turbine drives a high-pressure pump to operate to generate high-pressure water which is desalted through a reverse osmosis membrane module; the high-pressure concentrated sea water discharged from the reverse osmosis membrane module impacts a turbo machine to rotate; the turbo machine drives a generator to rotate to generate electric energy, thus realizing the comprehensive utilization and conversion of the tide energy; the effluents in the process of energy utilization and conversion do not cause pollution, are clean and environmental-friendly;the system does not need additionally provided external power, and is low in operation cost; and the tide energy is a renewable energy source, and has the advantages of sustainable development, better social benefits and application value.

The invention discloses a hydroturbine fault diagnosis method and a hydroturbine fault diagnosis device based on acoustic emission technology. The method applies the acoustic emission technology to the fault diagnosis of a hydroturbine set, obtains acoustic emission signals on a hydroturbine draft tube and guide vanes of a watermill chamber through an acoustic emission sensor, eliminates noise by adopting morphological filtering technology, adopts the pulse repetition rate to analyze the intensity of the periodicity of the acoustic emission signals, combines spectrum analysis and waveform nearness analysis to identify common rub impact, cracks as well as cavitation and cavitation erosion states, and applies wavelet packet technology for the decomposition and reconstruction of the signals to calculate the acoustic intensity of acoustic emission and perform the trend analysis of parameters of the acoustic intensity along with the working condition such as active power, water head and guide vane opening, further to comprehensively know the operation state and performances of a hydroturbine generator set and guide the operation of a hydroturbine.

Turbine systems for extracting energy from water traveling relative to the turbine system can include a rotor assembly for extracting the energy, a turbine shroud having a turbine shroud inner volume within which at least a portion of the rotor assembly is disposed, and an ejector shroud having a ejector shroud inner volume within which at least a portion of the turbine shroud is disposed. The turbine shroud and the ejector shroud can each have a terminus comprising a plurality of turbine shroud mixer elements or ejector shroud mixer elements, respectively. One or more of the mixer elements and ejector shrouds comprise a mixer/ejector pump which increases the energy extraction potential of the turbine system. One or more of the turbine shroud mixer elements, ejector shroud mixer elements, and ejector shroud and turbine shroud inlets can be asymmetric about a plane passing through the axis of rotation of the rotor assembly. Methods, systems, apparatus and articles of manufacture relating to these features and others are also disclosed.

The invention provides a high-power vertical shaft tidal generating set. A gravity type pylon base (1) is connected with a pylon (2) through a universal ball hinge (3); an engine room (4) is arranged at the top end of the pylon; the periphery of the engine room is distributed with ropes (6) used by anchor chain plate holes (5) for connecting a floating bucket (7) and an anchor chain on an anchor (8); a water turbine spindle (9) is sleeved on the pylon, and both ends of the water turbine spindle are provided with bearings; water turbine blades (12) are uniformly distributed and fixed on a shaft hub (14) of the spindle through a spoke (13); an umbrella-shaped gear (15) on the spindle is engaged with a small umbrella-shaped gear (17) on a shaft of a generator (16) in the engine room; sealing shaft sleeves (18) are additionally arranged at the upper end of the spindle, on the lower wall of the engine room and on the pylon; and the base and the universal ball hinge are connected through a flange plate (19). The high-power vertical shaft tidal generating set provides clean renewable energy sources required by production and life for coastal areas, numerous islands and remote areas and particularly for residents on islands which cannot be covered by the national grid, and has positive social benefit.

A wind or water turbine mounted atop a support tower or tethered underwater drives a hydro-pumping system. The turbine converts wind or water energy into a driving torque applied to the hydro-pump. The hydro-pump forces water through a pipe transmission system to an onshore facility. On shore, the resultant pressurized fluid-flow propels a hydroelectric generating system to produce electricity or may first be used in a Reverse Osmosis desalinization process and the byproduct in part used to propel a hydroelectric generating system to produce electricity. The cold-water discharge from the hydroelectric generating system and/or from the desalinization process is used for onshore district or power plant cooling purposes.

The invention discloses a primary frequency modulation electric quantity compensation refined control method and apparatus under a giant hydroelectric generating set power mode. The control method comprises the steps of obtaining a frequency difference signal between a power grid standard frequency and an actual power grid frequency obtained in real time; judging whether the frequency difference signal is outside a primary frequency modulation frequency dead zone or not, if the frequency difference signal exceeds the primary frequency modulation frequency dead zone, delaying for 0.1second and then outputting a primary frequency modulation action signal; using the frequency difference signal, and enabling a giant hydroelectric generating set speed regulator to be in a power mode; if the actual power grid frequency obtained in real time exceeds the primary frequency modulation frequency dead zone and is within in a range of a superposition value between the primary frequency modulation frequency dead zone and power dead zone equivalent power, performing superposition between a frequency compensation coefficient and the corresponding function of a frequency modulation load according to the frequency difference signal to obtain corresponding theoretical frequency modulation power; obtaining corresponding theoretical regulation power according to the frequency difference signal and the corresponding function of the frequency modulation load; and forming a PID closed loop by a new active given value and the actual power value of the giant hydroelectric generating set, and outputting a corresponding frequency modulation load instruction. By virtue of the primary frequency modulation electric quantity compensation refined control method and apparatus, the primary frequency modulation contribution rate of the giant hydroelectric generating set can be accurately controlled, the primary frequency modulation percent of pass is improved, and the electric energy quality can be improved.

An array 22 of water turbine assemblies 10 is positioned between two I-beams driven into the bed of a flowing water system. Each water turbine assembly 10 comprises a modular box-shaped housing 12 having an inlet and outlet for accelerating the flow of water therethrough. Turbine 14 has a ring gear 18 positioned about the periphery thereof in mechanical communication with a plurality of generators 20 for converting the kinetic energy of flowing water into electricity. Receiving means 16 are positioned and attached to the inlet and outlet of the housing 12 for collecting, concentrating, directing and accelerating water through the turbine 14 in the throat section 19 of each water turbine assembly 10. Each box-shaped modular housing 12 is structurally communicated with other housings 12 by interlocking mating surfaces 26.

The invention discloses a sea observation platform for unmanned and automatic navigation. According to upward and downward movement of a water turbine which is arranged under sea and is pulled by a sea floating platform driven by wave, water flow entering into a water turbine casing is enabled to be guided by upper part guide blades and lower part guide blades to act on a one-way rotating rotor, the up and down movement is converted into one-way rotation of the rotor, by the adoption of the rotor, according to a transmission mechanism, and kinetic energy of rotation is transmitted into the rotor of a generation set which is accelerated by a speed shifting mechanism, so that sea wave energy is enabled to be converted into electrical energy; and a power supply system further comprises a solar photovoltaic system, the electrical energy generated by the solar photovoltaic system is taken as an auxiliary power supply for an observation platform, the electric energy converted from the sea wave energy is used as a main power supply for various systems, and a complemented method of the main power supply and the auxiliary power supply is used for providing power source for a propelling system and an intelligent control system. By providing adequate electric energy, the sea observation platform becomes the observation platform with functions of remote control, multi-method communication, visualized remote online monitoring and observing and the like, and the possibility of transparently supervising all sea observation stations in the country is realized.

The invention relates to an automatic setting method for control parameters of a water turbine speed regulating system. According to the method, firstly, T-S fuzzy model identification is conducted on a control object of the water turbine speed regulating system of a real unit to obtain a high-precision simulation system of the water turbine speed regulating system; secondly, according to the simulation system, a target function with the PID control parameters as optimization variables is set up, and the target function is worked out through a gravitational search algorithm to obtain the optimal PID control parameters. Due to the fact that the precision of the set simulation system is high, the characteristics of the real unit can be really reflected, the control parameter optimization result obtained through the simulation system can be directly applied to the real unit, and the dynamic quality of the unit speed regulating system is effectively improved.

The invention provides a method and device for measuring low-frequency and small-range vibration signals. The method mainly comprises the steps that an acceleration sensor is arranged on a measured object; after the low-frequency and small-range vibration signals sent by the measured object are detected by the acceleration sensor, the low-frequency and small-range vibration signals are converted to vibration acceleration signals; the integration-amplification vibration acceleration signals are output, and the resonant frequency of an integration-amplification acceleration sensor is larger that the largest effective vibration frequency of the vibration signals sent by the measured object; primary integration amplification is conducted on the vibration acceleration signals output by the integration-amplification acceleration sensor so that vibration speed signals can be obtained, and secondary integration amplification is conducted on the integration-amplification vibration speed signals so that vibration displacement signals can be obtained. According to the method and device for measuring the low-frequency and small-range vibration signals, the problem of the failure of the measured signals due to the phenomena of mechanical fatigue and blocking of mechanical components and the like is effectively solved, the resonant frequency of the acceleration sensor is far higher than the largest effective vibration frequency of the measured objects such as the structure of a water-turbine generator set, resonance signals of the acceleration sensor are completely filtered, and the function that a rear-end circuit is not influenced by the resonance signals of the acceleration sensor is guaranteed.

The present invention provides a sustainable energy system for pelagic deployment that may comprise a frame, at least one wind turbine generator coupled to the frame, at least one pair of water turbine generators coupled to the frame, and a rotatable joint.

A portable, tow-able, buoyant hybrid renewable energy platform for producing and storing electrical energy using wind, water, and solar power, or a combination of these methods. Included on this platform is a wind turbine that semi-detaches to become a water turbine, if necessary. A small fuel backup generator is provided for, as is a system for air-portage and stabilizing the device.

A water power turbine energy conversion device and method of generating electric power that can take advantage of water current speeds is hereinafter disclosed. The water power turbine energy conversion device includes an unmanned tethered aquatic device (TAD) connected to one end of a tether (which may include multiple shorter tethers), the other end being connected to an anchorage point. The TAD comprises a hydrofoil wing-like structure with one or more water power turbines and performs waterborne maneuvers such as cross-current tracking to increase the relative water current speed of up to about four times the true water current speed.

The invention discloses a reel irrigator provided with a self-detaching and self-walking sprinkler wagon and a use method of the reel irrigator. The reel irrigator comprises a chassis (1), a reel (2), a PE pipe (3), a water turbine box (4), a reel driving gearbox (5) and the sprinkler wagon (6), wherein the sprinkler wagon comprises a main wagon body (61) and an auxiliary wagon body (62); a sprinkler frame (611), a sprinkler (612) and main wagon body supporting wheels (613) are arranged on the main wagon body; auxiliary wagon body wheels (621), a power source (622), a sprinkler wagon driving gearbox (623), a wagon body locking device (624), a counter weight and an electric control box are mounted on the auxiliary wagon body; the auxiliary wagon body is connected with the main wagon body through the wagon body locking device. According to the reel irrigator provided with the self-detaching and self-walking sprinkler wagon, the weight of the sprinkler wagon is changed through self-detaching of the main wagon body and the auxiliary wagon body, and the rewinding resistance of the PE pipe can be reduced on the premise that the sprinkler wagon produces sufficient road gripping capacity to pull the PE pipe to realize self-walking.

The invention discloses a numerical simulation method for axial flow pump blade tip gap leakage vortex cavitation. An axial flow pump cavitation flow field is subjected to numerical calculation by performing three-dimensional geometric modeling on the axial flow pump, dividing calculation grids and establishing a cavitation flow calculation fluid dynamics model and adopting a cavitation model corrected based on a vortex discrimination method, and the cavitation performance of the axial flow pump and the blade top gap leakage vortex cavitation flow characteristic are obtained through analysis.According to the method, the influence of vortex flow on the cavitation phase change process is fully considered, the reliability of a vortex cavitation numerical calculation result is improved, rapidand high-precision numerical prediction of axial flow pump blade tip gap leakage vortex cavitation is realized, and a good mathematical basis is laid for research on a flowing mechanism and an inhibition measure of axial flow pump blade top gap leakage vortex cavitation. meanwhile, the method can also be popularized and applied to numerical simulation research on blade top gap leakage vortex cavitation of other blade type hydraulic machines such as a mixed flow pump and a water turbine.