A Vehicle for Power Generation, Transmission and Storage

Category: Green Technology & Renewable Power Generation, ;

Technology: Vehicle for power generation, Transmission, & storage

Industry: Renewable Power generation & etc. & Costal Power Plant. Applications: Vehicle for power generation, transmission and storage;

Market: The global wave & tidal energy market is focused to expand at a CAGR of 27.4% during the period from 2023 to 2030.

In the present era, there is constantly efforts are being made to increase the use of renewable energy by utilizing various sources such as wind, solar, waves, geothermal, & etc.
The existing mechanisms & technologies are not economically competitive, due to high cost & other cause of environmental damage by interrupting ocean/sea ecosystems.
By prior art survey, the conventional combined power generators are deployed remote location like mid-sea areas to generate combined power, which may lead to corrosion of components of the combined power generators. Further, it is difficulty in transmission of generated power & may require submersed cables which is tedious installation process.
Hence, there is a need to address above issues.

Present Patent describe a vehicle for power generation, transmission and storage which includes a plurality of power conversion units, a gear mechanism, a generator unit coupled to the gear mechanism and a control unit,
The vehicle 100 comprises a frame,1, a body,2, a plurality of power conversion units 200, 300, 400, a gear mechanism, 500, a generator unit, 600 & a control unit,3 shown in Fig.1.
Said patent discloses constructional configuration & functioning of the plurality of power conversion units, gear mechanism & the control unit.
The generator unit is coupled to the gear mechanism & is configured to generate power based on operation of the gear mechanism, from at least one of the first conversion unit & the second conversion unit.
The control unit is communicatively coupled to one or more sensors disposed proximal to the gear mechanism & the generator unit.
The controller of the vehicle is configured to:
The power unit of vehicle may be an engine/motor which may be driven by a battery and a plurality of motors electrically coupled to the battery.

Technical Perspective:

The control unit operates the gear mechanism to regulate power generated at the generator unit based on operation of the first conversion unit, the second conversion unit & the third conversion unit.
The first conversion unit comprises a plate movably disposed in the first section of the body.
The plate configured to engage with tides at an on-shore location & being operable based on wave energy.
The second conversion unit comprises a vertical axis wind turbine mounted in the second section of the body & being operable based on wind energy.
The third conversion unit comprises a solar panel mounted in at least one of the first section and the second section & is being operable based on solar energy.
The gear mechanism comprises a first gear mechanism & second gear mechanism, wherein said first gear mechanism is connected to first generator of the generator unit & second gear mechanism is connected to a second generator of the generator unit.
Further the first & second gearing mechanism comprises first & Second plurality of gears engaging with the first shaft & second shaft.
The generator unit transmits the generated power from the first conversion unit & the second conversion unit to a power grid and/or a battery.

Industrial Perspective:

The vehicle may generate continuous power from tides & wind energy without substantial interruption in power generation.
May also be implemented with renewable energy sources capable of rotating a generator.

Prof. A. Seshadri Sekhar

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

TRL-2/3

Proof of Concept formulated & tested

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