ORTHOGONAL POWER GENERATING UNIT TO CONVERT ENERGY OF WATER OR AIR FLOWS Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC F03B13/10 F03D3/06 

FIELD: machine building.

SUBSTANCE: unit comprises a vertical tower 1 with a jet-directing blade device 2 arranged in a side wall to form a swirled vortex-like motion of a moving medium flow inside the tower 1 as running over the tower 1. At the side of one of the tower 1 ends into the axial area of the latter to reinforce rotation there is an output section 3 of a channel 4 introduced in direction of the motion of the medium rotating inside the tower. In the channel 4 there is an orthogonal multilevel turbine. The channel 4 at the section from the inlet to the turbine is arranged as narrowing. Each level of the turbine is arranged with arrow-shaped blades, bent along helical lines and symmetrically inclined from the area of coupling of adjacent level blades in the form of an arrowhead in the direction opposite to the blades of the adjacent turbine level. Ends of blades of the adjacent turbine levels are fixed on a ring arranged between adjacent levels of the turbine. The section 3 of the channel 4 is arranged with the axis parallel to direction of the vortex motion inside the tower 1.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of a power generating unit due to increased coefficient of using kinetic energy of air or water approach flow.

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