An Interesting Approach to a Wave Powered Electricity Generator
I received a message today from a reader suggesting a particular website. I read the information on that particular website, and there was presented a hybrid energy producing system by using the waves as a “catalyst” for the operation of a diesel-powered generator.
In short, their inventions’ descriptions are these:
“1. Wave Air Pump - WAP:
Compresses air and feeds it into the air inlet of a turbo generator, inject fuel as needed to maintain a turbo generator output irrespective of wave heights.
2. Wind Turbine Pump – WTP
A wind turbine directly drives an air compressor, collects the compressed air in a piping network and feeds it to the air inlet of a turbo generator.
3. Wave Water Pump - WWP:
Lifts a small quantity of water to a high head and feed it to a hydro-turbo generator to produce power, or compressed air to feed another turbo generator and act as a WAP. A set of pumps or a set of wind turbines, up to ten and a mile wide or as needed may be installed in line with the incoming waves or wind to extract most of its energy. The proposed systems can generate dependable electric power at competitive cost.”
Their idea of an energy-producing system (by the way, energy cannot be produced nor be lost - it can only be converted) is very fruitful, because it has both the power of sun, wind, water and… the diesel. And that’s the worst part. The diesel comes from fossil fuels, has very harmful noxes and produces a lot of CO2. As someone said in a recent comment from gas2.0, “you don’t need to dance around the elephant in the room anymore!”. Wave power, if used, has to be self-sufficient, there must not be any other fuel-powered systems, and when I say that I mean internal combustion engines.
Update: I got a comment from the inventor of these WAP and WWP systems, and it seems I got things a little bit confused. He clarified them for me here.
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Jul 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Nice idea to generate diesel.very interesting to read.
Nov 17th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Tell me more, What a great idea and very informative, I am a huge diesel fan and wish everyone would support the cause…
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Nov 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hi,
I designed the header image myself…
Ovi.
Apr 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Thanks for including the WWP and WAP systems at your site.
I am the inventor of these systems, Wave Water Pump and wave Air Pump. Both systems extract energy, WWP lifts a small amount of water to a much higher head, while WAP compresses air up to 100 psi, using the wave potential and wave kinetic energy.
There is no mention of producing diesel fuel.
May 6th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Your comment about the renewable energy systems WWP and WAP is simply out of line it is a misrepresentation.
You are requested to correct your comments, otherwise kindly remove any reference to my systems and site.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Hello mr. Shamil, Please tell me what I should understand from “The pump converts the kinetic energy of a wave into compressed air, collects it and feeds it to the air inlet of a fueled turbo generator.”? Doesn’t your system also use fuel (probably diesel) to generate electricity? If you are explicit enough, and make me understand what is the air inlet of a turbo generator and what is the “air inlet of a fueled turbine” I will rewrite the article gladly, and ask all my possible apologies for the mistake I made. If you don’t use any FUEL, please don’t mention this word, because in lay meaning, FUEL = petrol based fuel.
Thank you,
Ovidiu.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:13 am
To Mr. Ovidiu
I wanted to differeciate between two types of turbo-generators;
1. Feeding high temperature steam (inherently high pressure steam) into a turbine to turn a generator to produce electricty.
2. Using a turbo Compressor to suck air at Standard Temperature and Pressure, compress it into a combustion chamber where fuel is injected and raises the tempreature of the air and consequently the pressure. This high pressure, high temperature air is directed into another turbine to turn a generator where electricity is produced.
The turbo compressor consumes energy to compress the air. In the proposed system the Wave Air Pump provides the compressed air from a renewable energy source, wave or wind. Therefore, the fueled turbo generator uses less fuel to generate the same amount of electric power.
All renewable energy sytems, have the dilema: if NO renewable enrgy source is available, there is no power output. In the proposed WAP and WTP sytems, Renewable energy source is available, the systems provides the required power at less fuel consumption, and when there is no renewable enrgy source, it operates at normal fuel consumption. This provides dependable power irrespective of availability of renewable energy source.
The main idea is to differentiate between the above two types. Details are at http://www.renewableenergypumps.com
Hope the above explains the misunderstanding.
Thanks for your interest, and thanks for including me at your site.