Siphon Hydroelectric Power Plant - Edu Foundation

Abstract:

The invention relates to the siphon hydroelectric power plant which aimed to provide non-polluting, safe, economically feasible and industrially accessible source of energy. It comprises: atleast three tanks which are placed in a row and later filled with water, two siphon pipes which pumps water from the tanks, a turbine is placed just above the middle tank, two connecting pipes are placed at the lower portion of the power plant project which make a connection between the tanks.

Claims (6):

1. The apparatus for obtaining siphon hydroelectric energy comprising two large tanks of equal size and another tank placed in the middle which is slightly smaller than the first two.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 further includes atleast two siphon pipes so that water can be taken from the large equal tanks into the middle tank.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 and 2 further includes two connecting pipes at the lower portion of power plant in order to maintain the level of water in all the tanks.
4. The method for obtaining siphon hydroelectric energy comprising the steps of: pumping of water from large equal tanks by siphon pipes.
5. The method of claim 4 further including the step of: falling of water from siphon pipes of large tanks into the middle tank.
6. The method of claim 4 and 5 further including the step of: falling of water from siphon pipes which strikes the blades of turbine to create a rotational movement.

Description:

SIPHON HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT

Hydroelectric power plants capture the energy of falling water to generate electricity. The most important feature of hydropower resources is its continuous renewability. Deficiency of need for fuel for hydropower plants determines the low cost of electricity generated at hydropower plants. It also do not poison atmosphere and do not reduce the reserves of fossil fuels.

But however, It has lot of cons. Construction of hydroelectric power plants is quite expensive. It requires huge dams, canals, colossal volume of earthwork and concrete work. And also these plants are not safe environmentally. Formation of dams leads to the loss of life of aquatic animals and also large areas of fertile soil disappear under the reservoirs. Dam failures have been some of the largest man-made disasters in history. Also good design and construction are not an adequate guarantee of safety. Dams are also tempting industrial targets for wartime attack, sabotage and terrorism. For example: The Banqiao Dam failure in Southern China resulted in the deaths of 1,71,000 people and left millions homeless. Also the creation of a dam in a geologically inappropriate location may cause the disasters like the one  of the Vajont Dam in Italy, where almost 2000 people died, in 1963. Another disadvantage of hydroelectric dams is the relocation of population. It is need to relocate the people living where the reservoirs are planned to set up. In February 2008, It was estimated that 40-80 million people worldwide had been physically displaced as a direct result of dam construction.

So the present invention relates to damless hydroelectric power plants or siphon hydroelectric power plants. It refers to a system that facilitates and allows the production of safe, clean, cost-effective, renewable and efficient hydroelectric energy. The construction is feasible to most geographic area in the world.

Disclosure of Invention:

Thus, it is the aim of invention to provide a system for obtaining economically feasible and industrially accessible source of energy. It can be manufactured using metal alloy, reenforced concrete, Polyvinyl Chloride  (PVC), other plastics and synthetic materials in combination for tanks and piping. It requires large vertical tanks, siphon pipes, connecting pipes, turbines and generators. This present system is thus made to be utilized anywhere on the planet earth where clean, safe and efficient hydroelectric energy is needed and compromises:

(1) atleast large vertical tanks to hold water inside it.

(2) atleast siphon pipes to pump water from tanks and to strike water on the blades of turbine.

(3) atleast connecting pipes at the lower portion of the power plant.

Characterised by the above facts, the main procedure to obtain clean and safe hydroelectric energy is described below:

At first, we have to take 3 tanks. From them, two tanks are equal in size and third tank is slightly smaller than the first two. Place the tanks in a row as shown in fig 1.1. Two equal tanks are named as tank-1 and tank 2 respectively. Then pour water to fill all the tanks. A Pelton turbine is placed just above the middle tank. When water is pumped from tank-1 and tank-2 by siphon pipes and put into the middle tank,  The jet of water from siphon pipe which pumps water from tank-1 strikes one side of the blades of turbine while the jet of water from the siphon pipe which pumps water from tank-2 strikes the side of blades of turbine which is opposite to the first side of blades as shown in fig 1.2. The force caused due to the striking of water from both the siphon pipes results in rotation of turbine. The two equal tanks (tank-1 and tank-2) will empty after sometime as water is pumped from them to fill the middle tank. So the middle tank will fill with water. But the water automatically flow into the empty tanks (tank-1 and tank-2) ; from higher concentration to lower concentration as they make a connection between each other by using connecting pipes at the lower portion of the power plant as shown in fig 1.3. The siphon pipe again pumps water to fill the middle tank. This continues to create a cyclic flow of water. Lastly the moving of turbines results in the generation of clean and safe hydroelectric energy.

The main advantages that we get from it are:

• It produces non-polluting source of energy.
• The manufacturing cost of the power plant project is not very expensive.
• It does not need any fuel to perform.
• It does not require any man-made efforts, if once started.

The above description of obtaining energy able to show the invention from the conceptive point of view, in a way that others can easily modify or adapt this specific design of getting hydroelectric energy.