MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517085089 A) filed by Hahn, Gunter, Buhl-Neusatz, Germany, on Sept. 8, for 'pumped-storage power plant.'
Inventor(s) include Hahn, Gunter.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A pumped-storage power plant is proposed with a cycling volume consisting of an upper volume (V1) which provides a water reservoir and a lower volume (V2) which is arranged at a lower level than the upper volume. A flow connection (1) opens at its upper end into the upper volume and at its lower end into the lower volume. Constituent parts of the flow connection (1) are - a feed pump or pump turbine for transporting water from the lower volume to the upper volume, - a turbine for power supply which is arranged at or close to the lower level and can be flowed through by water which flows through the flow connection from the upper to the lower volume. In order to provide a pumped-storage power plant which is suitable even for those regions, in which there is no possibility, on account of climatic or regional geographic conditions or on account of regulations and requirements for nature conservation, to utilize already existing bodies of water or to convert existing areas to create artificial bodies of water, and the storage medium water is not consumed, it is proposed by way of the invention that: the upper volume (V1) is a cavity which is enclosed by a storage tube (3) and into which the upper end of the flow connection (1) opens, - and the lower volume (V2) is a cavity which is enclosed by a storage tube (3) and into which the lower end of the flow connection (1) opens, and that the storage tube (3) has a slope () with respect to the horizontal which falls or rises towards the flow connection (1) depending on the situation."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 09, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/053397.
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