摘要 |
<p>The invention refers to a catamaran for creating a net head that stands anchored at the middle of a river tied to the river sides by means of cables and fixed to the riverbed by means of stakes, composed by two profiled floats connected together with a floor plane that constitutes the floor of a symmetric channel formed between the floats containing a narrower zone of determined width, where water flows with higher strength than the river stream, moving a low head water wheel mounted on both floats that drives electrical generator(s) standing on the float(s), each float containing mounts to sustain a bridge that includes a middle tray between the mounts and two side trays each from one mount to the river side, all together providing means to extract power from run-of-river streams on a higher number profitable sites where the streams could not be very strong, recommended for low depth rivers where marine traffic is almost inexistent and a bridge that can be easily assembled allowing pedestrian or light loadings to cross between river sides.</p> |