Abstract: The invention is a two-way generation tidal power plant with bypasses participating in generation. The preferred embodiment of such a tidal power plant has a power house with one-way turbines and additional head and tail reservoirs formed by additional barrages in the basin and the outer bay. The purpose of this invention is to increase the energy production per each tidal cycle and the water volume used for it. The closer this water volume to the water volume filling and emptying the basin under natural conditions without barrage, the smaller is the environmental impact of the tidal power plant. In order to achieve this, the main barrage is equipped with bypasses, the sluices passing water during the final phases of the ebb and the flood generations in parallel to the power house turbines and having a discharge capacity up to 15 times higher than the discharge capacity of the turbines.

Abstract: The invention is a Bulb turbine with mixed-flow propeller runner instead of axial flow propeller runner. The main area of application for the invention are the large tidal power plants (Fundy Bay, Severn Lake, etc.) with barrages where the propeller runners are working together with DC generators located in the bulbs. The theoretical fluid mechanical and energy output analyses show that the application of Bulb turbine with mixed-flow propeller and (Q11)opt=2.830 m3/sec would increase the energy output of the Fundy Bay tidal power plant with 200 units up to 4.5 million megawatt-hours per year in comparison with commercially available Bulb turbines with axial flow propellers and (Q11)opt=2.200 m3/sec without additional cost for the plant construction and its equipment. Also, the runner rotation of Bulb turbines with mixed-flow propellers [(N11)opt=110.0 rpm, Nopt=50.807 rpm] is 0.667 times slower than of commercially available Bulb turbines [(N11)opt=165.0 rpm, Nopt=76.

Abstract: The invention is an Exit Stay Apparatus with Intermediate Flange for Francis and propeller hydraulic turbines. The purpose of the invention is to improve the effectiveness of known Exit Stay Apparatus (U.S. Pat. No. 6,918,744, July 2005, for Hydraulic Turbine and Exit Stay Apparatus therefor) in eliminating the axial central vortex and, therefore, in increasing the efficiency and decreasing the flow pressure pulsations in draft tube cone at off optimum operating regimes. The new Exit Stay Apparatus has an intermediate flange between exit stay crown and periphery and two sets of exit stay vanes: crown exit stay vanes secured to the exit stay crown and the intermediate flange and peripheral exit stay vanes secured to the intermediate flange and following to the periphery. When installed in the turbine the peripheral exit stay vanes are secured at the periphery.

Abstract: The invention is a two-way generation tidal power plant with one-way turbines. The purpose of the invention is to have a two-way generation tidal power plant with the same high efficiency for both ebb and flood generations. In order to achieve this, additional head and tail reservoirs for a power house are formed by additional barrages in the basin and the outer bay. During flood generation the head reservoir is connected to the outer bay and the tail reservoir is connected to the basin. During ebb generation, the head reservoir is connected to the basin and the tail reservoir is connected to the outer bay.

Abstract: The invention is an Exit Stay Apparatus for Francis and propeller hydraulic turbines. The purpose of the invention is to eliminate the loss of turbine efficiency and strong pulsations in draft tube caused by the axial circular vortex in all turbine operating regimes other than optimum without a noticeable decrease in maximum efficiency. It can be incorporated not only into newly fabricated hydraulic turbines, but also retrofitted into existing turbines. The Exit Stay Apparatus has a crown and exit stay vanes secured to the the crown. When installed in the turbine, the exit stay crown is located immediately after the runner crown, which is truncated at the bottom by a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the turbine. The exit stay crown together with the truncated runner crown forms water passages after the runner blade crown profile exit.

Abstract: The invention is an Exit Stay Apparatus for Francis and propeller hydraulic turbines. The purpose of the invention is to eliminate the loss of turbine efficiency and strong pulsations in draft tube caused by the axial circular vortex in all turbine operating regimes other than optimum without a noticeable decrease in maximum efficiency. It can be incorporated not only into newly fabricated hydraulic turbines, but also retrofitted into existing turbines. The Exit Stay Apparatus has a crown and exit stay vanes secured to the the crown. When installed in the turbine, the exit stay crown is located immediately after the runner crown, which is truncated at the bottom by a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the turbine. The exit stay crown together with the truncated runner crown forms water passages after the runner blade crown profile exit.

Abstract: Wicket gates and axial flow or mixed flow runner blades for a hydraulic turbine with the wicket gates arranged in a generally circular array around a central axis and with the gates pivotal about pivot axes parallel to the central axis. Each of the wicket gates is provided with a trailing edge shaped to present a discharge angle which varies from a small discharge angle at the bottom of the gate to a large discharge angle at the top of the gate. The discharge angle at any point along the length of the trailing edge is preselected such that water flow having a known radial velocity vector at the trailing edge will have a constant circumferential velocity vector along the length of the trailing edge. The shape of the runner blades is related to the shape of the wicket gates such that the whirl value for the fluid flow exiting the runner blades is between about zero and a value that is less than the change in whirl from the inlet to the exit of the runner apparatus formed by the runner blades.

Abstract: A reversible two-stage hydraulic machine, or pump/turbine, is disclosed having a rotary shaft. A first-stage Francis-type runner is fixed to the shaft with a spiral casing surrounding the first stage runner for distributing water to the runner from an upper reservoir. Stay vanes and wicket gates in the first-stage casing direct water to flow toward the first-stage runner in a spiral path having a direction in common with the rotational direction of the shaft. Water discharging axially from the first-stage runner is admitted to axial openings of a second-stage Fourneiron-type runner. Water is discharged from the second-stage runner in a radial plane. Second-stage stay vanes surrounding the discharge of the second-stage runner direct the water to flow in a spiral path having a rotational direction opposite of that of the shaft.