Patent ID: 6051891
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: F01K,F03G,Y02E

Abstract:
In an electric power generating station comprising a power source for compressing gas, a storage tank for storing said compressed gas, a tower partly filled with fluid including a vertical endless belt looped around pulleys and attached in spaced attachments to a plurality of buckets deployed to align the inverted ones thereof above a port communicating with said primary condenser, the improvement comprising:said power source includes a solar cell array conveying electric power to an electric motor connected to a primary condenser for converting said compressed gas to liquid state, said motor including a first cooling jacket formed around the exterior thereof:an evaporator provided with external heat exchange ribs connected to receive said liquified gas from said primary condenser for converting said liquified gas to gas;a generator connected for rotation to a selected one of said pulleys and including a second cooling jacket around the exterior thereof;a secondary condenser connected to said evaporator and driven by an auxiliary electrical motor connected for electrical excitation to said generator, said auxiliary motor including a third cooling jacket formed around the exterior thereof;conveying means connected from said evaporator, through said first, second and third cooling jackets to said port for conveying said gas therebetween; andwherein said tower is hermetically sealed and connected at the upper end thereof by a distributing manifold to said primary and secondary condensers and said pulleys being submerged below the surface of said fluid and said tower comprises a closed cavity communicating through said port with said conveying means.