UNIVERSAL SEA POWER GENERATION PLANT Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC F03B13/24 F03B13/26 

FIELD: machine building.

SUBSTANCE: proposed power generation plant exploits the power of sea wave and tides. The plant comprises a hollow cylindrical housing with its bottom open. It communicates with seawater and is anchored to sea bottom. The said housing features a narrowing forming a smaller cylinder. The casing is attached to the aforesaid cylinder. The aforesaid casing houses an impeller driven by air sucked in/out from the housing inner space via air ducts formed by the aforesaid casing and non-return valves mounted inside the upper small cylinder, the air force being directly dependent upon the water level caused by the running wave.

EFFECT: simple low-cost high-efficiency power generation unit to be mounted at whatever sea- or-ocean coast line.

4 cl, 22 dwg