Cyclone Eyewall Water Dispersion Device

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for reducing the destructive force of tropical cyclones are inefficient and lack practical application, with existing solutions either ineffective or posing risks such as increasing the strength of other storms or causing unintended consequences like the development of stronger cyclones.

Innovation Solution

A method involving the on-site pumping and dispersion of sea water into the eyewall of a tropical cyclone using a device equipped with self-propulsion, sea water pumping, and dispersion nozzles, which utilizes the kinetic energy of strong winds to carry the water upward, slowing down the cyclone's development and reducing its intensity by counteracting ascending air flows.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If sound waves or percussion bombs are used to disrupt cyclone structure, then cyclone formation may be suppressed, but resonance effects or incorrect timing could increase cyclone circulation and strength

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecyclone suppression effectivenessVSAvoidincreased cyclone strength

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful warm ocean water that fuels cyclones into a beneficial cooling resource by pumping deep cold water to the surface and dispersing it into the cyclone's updrafts, directly addressing the energy source of the cyclone rather than attempting to disrupt its structure with potentially harmful external forces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces cold water as an intermediary substance between the deep ocean and the cyclone system, using this mediator to transfer thermal energy from the cyclone to the deep ocean, thereby reducing cyclone intensity without direct mechanical or acoustic intervention that could cause resonance effects

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If heat is added to cyclone periphery to accelerate air flows, then local storm formation is enhanced, but remaining heat can join other storms and increase their negative impact

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelocal storm intensityVSAvoidheat available for other storms

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of adding heat to influence cyclones as in prior art, the patent inverts the approach by removing heat from the cyclone system through cold water injection, directly cooling the updrafts and reducing cyclone intensity without creating excess heat that could affect other storms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

3Force

If large amounts of material are dropped into cyclone eye to increase gravity, then cyclone strength reduction is intended, but the amount of substance required is prohibitively large and effectiveness is unproven

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecyclone strength reductionVSAvoidmaterial required

Core Design Contradiction:

ForceVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical approach of dropping massive amounts of material to increase gravity with a thermal approach, using cold water injection to reduce the thermal energy and buoyancy that drive cyclone updrafts, thereby reducing cyclone intensity through thermal dynamics rather than gravitational effects

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the thermal parameter of the cyclone system by introducing cold water, fundamentally altering the temperature and density parameters of the updrafts, which directly reduces the cyclone's energy and intensity without requiring large quantities of material

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The method effectively attenuates tropical cyclone intensity by reducing ascending air speeds, thereby minimizing damage and potentially downgrading the cyclone to a tropical storm, with the device capable of delivering significant power to influence the cyclone's development over several days.

Implementation Method 1

dispersed in the wind at the bottom of such tropical cyclone in/near its eyewall and then drifted to the heights by the kinetic energy of this strong wind

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectKinetic energy transfer:

Implementation Method 2

The weight of several hundred thousand or even million tons of sea water (depending on the number and output power of the facilities) acts continuously against the ascending air flows in/near the eyewall, thus reducing the speed of these flows

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectGravitational force: Gravitation

Data Source

PatentUS7798419B2Method of and a device for the reduction of tropical cyclones destructive force

Publication Date: 2010.09.21 SOLC JOZEF

AI summary

A method and device for suppressing the destructive force of a tropical cyclone, wherein the ascendant speed of wind in the eyewall of a cyclone is reduced by sea water pumped on-site from under the sea surface to above the surface, and then dispensed in the wind at the bottom of the cyclone in/near its eyewall.