River Diversion Pipeline for Flood Control and Power Generation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional flood control methods, such as artificial reservoirs, river straightening, and dam construction, are costly, environmentally detrimental, and ineffective in preventing flooding and ice drifts, particularly in mountainous regions, and fail to efficiently divert floodwaters.
Innovation Solution
An electric generating ecological flood control system comprising a selective collector, pressing pipeline, and electric generator, where the pipeline is laid under or above the river to divert floodwaters from potential flooding zones, regulating water flow with armatures to reduce ice strength and generate electricity from natural height differences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional flood control methods (reservoirs, dams, river straightening) are used, then flooding protection is provided, but high construction costs and environmental deterioration occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the floodwater from the river channel using a pipeline system that diverts water away from the flood-prone area. The selective collector captures floodwater at the source, and the pipeline transports it to a discharge point away from the protected zone, eliminating the need for expensive reservoirs and dams while maintaining effective flood protection
Solution Approach 2:
The pipeline acts as an intermediary element between the river and the flood-prone area. By introducing this intermediate transport mechanism, floodwater is moved through a controlled pathway underneath or alongside the river, providing protection without requiring costly conventional infrastructure like dams and reservoirs
2Reliability
If artificial reservoirs and auxiliary channels are constructed, then flood storage capacity is increased, but landscape deterioration and large land allocation requirements occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention moves the floodwater transport from the horizontal plane to the vertical dimension by laying the pipeline underneath the river bottom. This three-dimensional approach allows floodwater to be diverted without requiring additional surface land area, maintaining flood storage capacity while preserving the landscape and avoiding the need for large reservoirs or auxiliary channels
3Ease of operation
If river beds are straightened or dams are built, then water flow control is improved, but landscape spoilage and high construction costs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts floodwater from the natural river course using the selective collector and pipeline system. This allows water flow control to be achieved by removing excess water from the flood-prone area rather than altering the river's natural course, thereby maintaining effective flow control while preserving the natural landscape
Solution Approach 2:
The pipeline serves as an intermediary that handles water flow control without requiring direct modification of the river channel. By transporting floodwater through this intermediate structure, the system achieves effective flow management while leaving the river's natural course and surrounding landscape untouched
4Quantity of substance
If deepening of river bottom is performed to increase passing volume, then flood water capacity is increased, but high construction cost and fast contamination by flood pumps occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts floodwater from the river using the selective collector and pipeline system, increasing the effective water passing volume by removing excess water rather than deepening the river. This approach achieves the same hydraulic capacity increase without the high construction costs and contamination issues associated with river deepening and flood pump installation
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
This system efficiently drains floodwaters, reduces water levels, prevents territorial flooding, and produces electricity while maintaining ecological balance and avoiding pipeline freezing, effectively addressing the limitations of existing methods.
Implementation Method 1
transferred it from constant flow into pressing
Implementation Method 2
due to work of system by natural height difference at the exit of the pressing pipeline
Implementation Method 3
gain the result of work of offered system wide existing possibilities of getting electricity in case of producing through transformation water energy into electrical
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AI summary
Electric Generating Ecological Flood Control System which consists of selective collector, pressing pipeline, exiting collector, electric generator which is differs that pressing pipeline is lay under the bottom of the river or on the bottom of the river or in the water or above the water, where through the pressing collector carries out diversion of flood waters outside the area of possible flooding zones, while the regulation of amount and speed of water flows carries out according to additional leading one device regulative armature, that installed on pipeline and done with possibility of regulation exiting ability.