HydroCoil Power, Inc.

HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION:         

1. low head hydro [ 4 to 20 meters]
2. activated by flowing water current or wave
3. carbon neutral
4. low or zero heat signature
5. water-to-wire, on-site
6. distributed generation placement "behind the meter"
7. sell extra to local utility company through the grid
8. help defray municipality expenses--deploy in outflow from municipal water treatment plants
9. electrify [retrofit] some of the nearly 78,000 non-electrified dams 12 feet or higher
10. install in water conduits from reservoirs to cities
11. auxiliary electric power, scalable for small or large applications--
• boats/ships stopped, at anchor, or submerged  
• emergency preparedness
• remote monitoring - pipelines, seismic, weather, military
• from inflow to factories or tall office buildings, or channeling frequent rainfall
• for industrial manufacturing processes or mining operations.
12. self-sustaining electrical power in rural or remote areas with running water, for:
• --farms, camps, research sites, homes
• --emergency/disaster relief after earthquakes, floods, wind or ice storms, war, EMP detonation
• --littoral ops or marine buoys
• --"wave farms".

• no fuel transportation, storage, combustion, or radiation 
• focused energy is captured sequentially from flowing water
• low cost injection molding, relatively simple design
• fabricate from light weight polymer or composite
• no cavitation seen, expect little surface erosion & maintenance
• flexibility to locate in shallow or deep draft water
• self-orienting in the water current of rivers, harbors, bays, ocean

Gets the MOST ENERGY transfer: 

• varying coil angles-->
• extract and convert linear kinetic energy of water incrementally inside hydroelectric turbine, as it sequentially decelerates from gradual to steeper coil
• outer containment cylinder:
• to focus energy of stream/ ocean current, not slip through without contacting turbine
• side vents
• for early water exit from turbine during pressure backup when current flow slows

HydroCoil Turbine is designed for: 

• Efficient energy conversion from kinetic to rotational
• Simplicity--only about 10 moving parts excluding bearings.  
• Staged start-up feature, keeps rotating even when water flow slows. 

Half-scale polymer proofs-of-concept were built with a rapid-prototyping machine in the Villanova University Center for Engineering Research.   Tests produced electricity in low flow [20 gal./min.], low head conditions [from 4 to 8 feet] despite wide ribbon vane tolerances. 

Further evaluation of a helical single vane model, provided efficiency and output estimates in 2006 at Cooper Union University in New York.  Design then underwent major changes during scale-up. 

The operating hydroelectric prototype was completed in the spring of 2008.  Testing began in May, followed by internal improvements.  Definitive demonstrations and testing were conducted April 2-8, 2009.  Results exceeded expectations, and were certified by a professional engineer.  See short video below.

Read about us in the June 29, 2008 edition of

Making power generation more ecologically friendly: 
Help and protect the fish population  by pumping them upstream via a new "fish ladder" around obstacles. 
With on-site evaluation under approved test circumstances, the Ribbon Drive Pump peripheral design may benefit thousands of fish at dams or hydropower projects.  Worth investigating as a power company or as environmentally-concerned citizens?   Inquiries are invited.  Go to www.fluidmotive.com or contact us at 877-790-7972 or fluidmotive.inc@att.net  for further information.

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The 2 movies on this page are excerpts produced by Custom Video, Conshohocken, PA.

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HydroCoil Power, Inc. 

1359 Arbordale Rd., 3rd Floor, Wynnewood, PA 19041     
Registered in Virginia and in New Jersey 
    

hydrocoilpower.inc@att.net

tel:  877-790-7972        fax:  610-896-3919