Water-Train: The Most Energy-Efficient Inland Water Transportation

George, Kurian

  • 出版商: Morgan & Claypool
  • 出版日期: 2020-07-13
  • 售價: $1,860
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,767
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 75
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1681738473
  • ISBN-13: 9781681738475
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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商品描述

In a government-aided research project carried out at Cochin University, the inventor of the Water-Train demonstrated that his invention requires only 24 BTU/ton-km of energy whereas barges use 328 BTU in the same Inland water transportation situation. The use of this Water-Train can invariably curtail, to a large extent, the emission of greenhouse gases thereby decreasing the effect on global warming. Conventional water vehicles use screw propellers which have high reacting energy loss in propulsion whereas the Water-Train relies on the earth for reaction which is an infinite mass causing no reacting energy loss at all. The propelled water takes away a large quantity of kinetic energy (1/2����2 where its mass is �� and velocity is ��). Water-Train requires a monorail rigidly fixed to the earth through cross arms and pillars for applying the traction/propulsion force. The reacting body is the earth and so the traction efficiency tends toward 100%. It utilizes low friction of water and also the vehicles are connected serially like a locomotive and hence the wave making and skin resistances are also reduced. The NITIE study conducted earlier in India showed that diesel and electric trains use 166.3 BTU and 105.76 BTU, respectively, for the same purpose.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

在科欽大學進行的一項政府援助研究項目中,水火車的發明者證明了他的發明在內陸水運輸情況下只需24 BTU/噸-公里的能量,而船舶則需要328 BTU。使用這種水火車可以大幅減少溫室氣體的排放,從而減少對全球變暖的影響。傳統的水上交通工具使用螺旋槳,其推進過程中存在較高的反應能量損失,而水火車依靠地球作為反應體,地球是一個無窮大的質量,因此不會有任何反應能量損失。推進的水帶走了大量的動能(1/2 * m * v^2,其中m是質量,v是速度)。水火車需要通過橫臂和支柱牢固地固定在地球上以施加牽引/推進力。反應體是地球,因此牽引效率趨近於100%。它利用水的低摩擦力,並且車輛串聯在一起,就像一列火車,因此減少了波浪和皮膚阻力。印度早期進行的NITIE研究顯示,柴油火車和電力火車分別用於相同目的的能量分別為166.3 BTU和105.76 BTU。