HYDRO-ELECTRIC PLANT Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC F03B7/00 F03B17/06 

FIELD: power engineering.

SUBSTANCE: hydroelectric plant comprises a floating base made in the form of a catamaran, between bodies 1 of which there is a channel formed, a water wheel 2 arranged in the latter, with blades 3 fixed on its outer surface and an electric generator 4 kinematically connected with a shaft 5 of the water wheel 2. Walls of the channel formed by bodies 1 of the catamaran are made as narrowing. The channel is symmetrical relative to the plane stretching via the axis of the water wheel 2. To the outer wall of the catamaran body 1, on which the electric generator 4 is located, a shield 7 is fixed at the angle to the flow, and on its upper part a rope 9 is fastened that attaches the plant to the coast. An electric cable connecting the electric generator 4 with a load is fixed freely to the rope 9.

EFFECT: simplified possibility to fix a hydroelectric plant in a certain area of a water stream.

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