CONVERSION DEVICE OF INCOMING WATER FLOW TO ELECTRIC ENERGY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F03B9/00 F03B17/06 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: conversion device of incoming water flow to electric energy includes a ship brought into movement with a propeller screw, which is made in the form of a catamaran ship, a conveyor with shafts 8 and an endless belt with blades fixed on it. Belt edges are perforated. Shafts 8 are equipped with radial pins entering perforation holes and connected to electric generator 3 shaft. An operating channel is formed with two conveyors with endless belts on vertical shafts 8 in cutouts of housing 1 on each of the catamaran ship semi-housings below the water line. Each of the catamaran ship semi-housings is fully enveloped with its endless belt with the blades fixed on it and made from material with positive buoyancy. In nose subsurface part of housing 1 there located is water intake 6 with water drains to the rear part of the ship. Storage battery 2 with electric motor 5 having an actuator on line of shafts 8, and control system 4 are located in housing 1.

EFFECT: increasing efficiency, improving operating reliability and power of the ship's power plant and associated generation of electric energy for different consumers.

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