Salmon Generator USPTO Patent 6,741,000 Copyright January 2011Ronald A. Newcomb (619) 501-1800.

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Salmon Generator USPTO Patent 6,741,000 Copyright January 201 Ronald A. Newcomb (619) 501- 1800

Transcript of Salmon Generator USPTO Patent 6,741,000 Copyright January 2011Ronald A. Newcomb (619) 501-1800.

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Salmon Generator

USPTO Patent 6,741,000

Copyright January 2011Ronald A. Newcomb (619) 501-1800

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Old hydroelectric generators chop the water as it passes.

4% of the fish are chopped in each pass.

60% are disoriented and do not immediately resume migration.

Predatory fish and scavenger fish wait at the bottom of the dam for chopped and disoriented fish to prey on.

Old Technology

Kaplan:

Francis:

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New Technology

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Red Bluff Diversion Dam

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RBDD Screws

This is one of two 35 foot waterscrews installed and tested at RBDD.Note the motor at the top of thescrew which drives it.These screws were used as Archimedes designed, to lift water.

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Project Salmon Run Newcomb’s

generator is fish-friendly, killing less that 1% of the fish passing.

Newcomb’s generator is a straight flow through system.

Fish can pass either direction when conditions are right for the species.

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Benefits

Flow Through DesignReduced MaintenanceHigher EfficiencySafe Fish PassageWill meet EPA & NMF requirements for the river habitat.Can be retrofitted into any hydro electric dams and fitted to small dams.

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Small Dam Benefits

Creates energy where none is now createdCreates Bi-directional Fish PassageAllows communities to make use of very old structures that currently waste all energy stored behind each damRestores fish passage and river flows.

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The Generator

A New, More Efficient Design for A New, More Efficient Design for Hydroelectric Energy Production.Hydroelectric Energy Production.

Scalable to Any Size Scalable to Any Size of Generator or of Generator or Pump.Pump.Highly Efficient Highly Efficient Motor/generator.Motor/generator.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 1

This image is from the DOE and shows one of many Hydroelectric generator configurations used today.Note the main components:Generator, shaft, and screw type propeller.Note also the required change in water direction.Newton’s laws tell us this change in direction causes energy to be wasted.Pay attention to the top, for the moment, let me show you one. .

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Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 1

Parker Dam Unit 1 Core Test

Parker Dam, Lower Colorado River Basin, Lake Havasu Core Loop Test of Unit #1 November 2007

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Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 2

We have all seen images of generators, let’s look inside.

In this image, look to the top and bottom, Unit #1 is disassembled (top) and the armature is barely visible (bottom), let me show you what they look like. . .

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Hydro-Transformation Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 3Sidebar 3

Generator Armature, this is upright so the primary turbine shaft extends well below the floor.Let’s look from underneath. . .

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Hydro-Transformation Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 4Sidebar 4

“Ah, that’s why the 3D drawings look this way,” says you.

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Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 5

Parker Dam Core Test: This is Parker Dam Core Test: This is where the armature fits, note where the armature fits, note the platform used so we can the platform used so we can stand in the generator during to stand in the generator during to core loop test (high power is core loop test (high power is run through those visible cables run through those visible cables to test the stator (red). What do to test the stator (red). What do I mean “we?” you ask. . .I mean “we?” you ask. . .

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Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 6

““We” us, me! That’s the core We” us, me! That’s the core during the test. What is below is during the test. What is below is what kills the some of the fish what kills the some of the fish that pass through. . .that pass through. . .

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Hydro-Transformation Sidebar 7

Wicket Gates, in this case, above the Wicket Gates, in this case, above the Kaplan Generator blade, this is where the Kaplan Generator blade, this is where the water flows into the turbine. In a Francis water flows into the turbine. In a Francis Generator, it would flow out here between Generator, it would flow out here between the turbine and the gates the fish are the turbine and the gates the fish are chopped. In a Kaplan, it is below this chopped. In a Kaplan, it is below this where the blade either cuts them by direct where the blade either cuts them by direct force of the high speed blade, like a force of the high speed blade, like a blender blade, ir traps them between the blender blade, ir traps them between the blade and the wall of the generator. . .Let’s blade and the wall of the generator. . .Let’s continue with the thought experiment.continue with the thought experiment.

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Review: Tranformation

Now you understand what this illustrates, let me overlay it with a drawing I can manipulate, one I created with engineering software. . .

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Hydro-Power Transformation 2

Here I have overlaid the previous image with a 3d drawing to simplify the illustration.Note the same basic components are in place. The generator, the shaft, the blade. I will evolve this picture.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 3

This is the same image annotated to list the components.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 4

Here we have replaced the screw type ‘propeller’ style truncated screw with a longer single auger type screw blade which gives more power because it has more surface area for the water to push against.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 5

Now I have placed an outer cylinder around the screw. It is now a classical Archimedes screw. This is true devolution since exactly the opposite is how we arrived at the propeller.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 6

Now we have Removed the shaft and placed the screw directly into the generator.

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Hydro-Power Transformation 7

Lastly, we alter the angle of the screw and generator.

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Different Configurations

Many different configurations of the screw can be Many different configurations of the screw can be designed to increase the efficiency. Both radial fields (as designed to increase the efficiency. Both radial fields (as you have just seen), and more efficient axial fields can you have just seen), and more efficient axial fields can be designed. While you conserve energy by not changing be designed. While you conserve energy by not changing the general direction of the water during its passage the general direction of the water during its passage (Ref: Newton’s Laws), the actual direction of flow is (Ref: Newton’s Laws), the actual direction of flow is relatively irrelevant. relatively irrelevant.

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screw

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Screw assy

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Screw with 1 winding

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Screw with 1 winding and 1 magnet

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Screw completed

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Axial with 3 magnets and stator

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Axial 4 stators and magnets

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Axial cast stator complete

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Proprietary Designs

Patented Use of the Archimedes Screw. Patent 6,741,000 Driven by water pressure. May be used as a highly efficient pump.

Proprietary motor/generator. New motor, high efficiency design. Higher weight-to-power ratio than other

designs.

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Pump Diagram

Shows a screw with five modules (no magnets).Stackable to achieve desired results.Modules can be replaced.Unit can be scaled to any size pump/generator

How does this solve the Salmon problem?

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Solution to Dam ProblemsHydroelectric Power Generation with

oxygenated and sediment waters

OxygenatedWater

Normal mix ofoxygenated water

and sediment

Sedimentand

water

Upper Generator Passes Warm Oxygenated WaterUpper Generator Passes Warm Oxygenated Water

Lower Generator Passes Lower Generator Passes Sediment and Cold WaterSediment and Cold Water

Fish Can Migrate Up and Down StreamFish Can Migrate Up and Down Stream

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Solution to Dam ProblemsHydroelectric Power Generation with

oxygenated and sediment waters

OxygenatedWater

Normal mix ofoxygenated water

and sediment

Sedimentand

water

Constant efficiency over the entire Constant efficiency over the entire operating range means excess water operating range means excess water can now be used to generate more can now be used to generate more power. Therefore, less water is wasted.power. Therefore, less water is wasted.

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General Market Potential

Adaptable to many water pump usages and reduces energy usage.

Increases generator output with a more efficient design and more efficient use of water directionality, thus reducing energy loss per Newton.

Adaptable to any size dam.Deep water currents such as the Gulf

Stream become profitable.Any water down flow can be used including

small water wheel dams.

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The DOI Recognition

The DOI, through the RBDD, tested the fish friendliness of the Archimedes ScrewTheir data concluded Archimedes Screws are fish friendly in the these documents:McNabb, C.D., S.M. Borthwick and C.R. Liston. 2000. Experimental results from passing juvenile Chinook salmon through Archimedes lifts and an internal helical pump at Red Bluff Research Pumping Plant, Upper Sacramento River, California. Red Bluff Research Pumping Plant Report Series, Volume 9. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO.Weber, E.D. and S.M. Borthwick. 2000. Plasma cortisol levels and behavioral stress responses of juvenile Chinook salmon passed through Archimedes lifts and an internal helical pump at Red Bluff Research Pumping Plant, Sacramento River, California. Red Bluff Research Pumping Plant Report Series, Volume 8. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Red Bluff, CA.