US 12,078,140 B2
Method of electric energy generation and power generation system, in particular a power plant
Zygmunt Nowak, Krosno (PL)
Appl. No. 18/012,659
Filed by Zygmunt Nowak, Krosno (PL)
PCT Filed Jun. 15, 2021, PCT No. PCT/PL2021/050040
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/262016, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 434411 (PL), filed on Jun. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0250795 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. F03B 17/06 (2006.01); F03B 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC F03B 17/06 (2013.01) [F03B 11/00 (2013.01); F05B 2220/706 (2013.01); Y02E 10/20 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of electric energy generation, in which the energy of a liquid or water is transformed in electrical energy, characterized by:
providing a pressure vessel, comprising:
a first closing means which closes and opens an inflow opening through which a liquid or water is supplied to the pressure vessel by a means for feeding the liquid or water;
a second closing means which closes and opens an outflow opening through which a liquid or water is discharged outside from the pressure vessel by a means for discharging the liquid or water;
a turbine with a power generator for generating electric energy where a turbine rotor is situated inside said pressure vessel;
supplying a liquid or water to the inside of the pressure vessel towards the turbine rotor which, while rotating, drives the power generator; generating negative pressure or vacuum inside the pressure vessel in its top part which constitutes a vacuum chamber in whose space the turbine rotor is installed;
setting a height (h) of a liquid or water column in the lower part of the pressure vessel constituting a water or liquid chamber below the turbine rotor, wherein the vacuum chamber is directly connected with the liquid or water chamber situated below and a conventional interface between the vacuum chamber and the water or liquid chamber is determined by the upper surface of the column of liquid or water;
then the first closing means is opened and the liquid or water is supplied, by the means for supplying the liquid or water to the vacuum chamber, directing the liquid or water to the turbine rotor in such a way that due to the pressure difference between the negative pressure or vacuum in the vacuum chamber and a higher pressure outside the pressure vessel, preferably the atmospheric pressure, which exerts pressure on the liquid or water supplied from outside, the liquid or water flows at high velocity into the vacuum chamber and rotates the turbine rotor which drives the power generator and produces electric energy;
maintaining the height (h) of the liquid or water column in the liquid or water chamber below the turbine rotor by discharging a surplus of liquid or water outside the pressure vessel by opening the second closing means and discharging the liquid or water by a means for discharging a liquid or water.