DESC:
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
00014 In the view of non-availability of external electricity during disaster situation and also during certain conditions where electricity is required and is not available, then the electricity can be generated through the vehicle.
00015 The mechanism can be used in other applications also. This vehicle based power generation unit is helpful in many applications like effluent treatment plant, desalination plant, organic waste converters etc.
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00016 This invention attempts to solve the problem of remote location water purification by building a vehicle mounted water purification plant. The Plant is self contained and all the necessary pumps, filters, control panels, Reverse Osmosis Filter Housings, Piping and valves are mounted on the same vehicle.
00017 The Vehicle used for transportation of Goods is utilized in building the water purification plant, and the cargo space is utilized for accommodating the necessary elements of Water Purification plant. When operating the plant, the movement of vehicle is not required, and the Engine Power is available for utilizing as power source. The same engine power is diverted by Power Take Off unit and fed via mechanical pulleys and belt arrangement to drive the Electrical Generator. The Generator is controlled to suite the demand of Water purification plant.
00018 To achieve above described dual functionality of utilization of Engine Power, a specific Power Take Off unit is invented with a selection of which output shaft receives the power by introducing the Selection Lever.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES:
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00019 Figure 1 Shows the Vehicle Arrangement in which in the Cargo Compartment all the Elements of Water Purification Plant are assembled. 10 is the vehicle Cabin Area, which encloses the Control Unit of Power Take off Unit. The Reverse Osmosis Filter Units 20 are arranged in such a way that they are easy to service and clean periodically. The Control Panel 30 controlling Voltage and Current of Generator 40 is arranged on one side so that from one side. The Pumps 50 are located behind the driver cabin and other filtration element units are housed in the Cargo Area 60.
00020 Figure 2 Shows the arrangement of Control of Power Take Off (PTO) Unit which couples to Engine. The Engine power is transmitted to Power Take Off Unit from Flange 20. During normal running the control lever 10 is in Run Position and transmits power to the Propeller Shaft Output 30. During the operation of Purification plant Lever 10 is in Operation Position and transmit power to the propeller shaft 40 providing power to the Water Purification Plant.
00021 Figure 3 Shows the arrangement of Power Transmission from Engine to Rear Wheels in normal running. The Control lever 10 is used for switching power selection. Engine Power is transmitted to PTO using Flange 20. Depending on the position of control lever 10 the power is transmitted to Pulleys and Belts from flange 30, or to Propeller Shaft 50 from flange 40. The two stage belts and pulleys 60 and 70 are providing power to Generator 80.
00022 Figure 4 Shows arrangement of Power Take Off unit with its mounting Flange 10, Oil Level Sight Glass 20, and Breather assembly 30. The Oil inside the Power Take Off unit serves the purpose of Lubrication and Cooling. The Breather Assembly removes the oil fumes and avoids the pressure build up in the PTO Gear Housing.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION:
00023 We have designed a system which generates power from the vehicle and from this power the water treatment plant runs. The water treatment plant can handle variable pressure from 1 bar till 50 bar in a single plant for treatment of water and produce drinking water being unique itself. The system is a combination of mechanical components and electrical components. Mechanical components include Power Take Off (PTO) gear, with pulley and V belt mechanism which is connected to the electrical component which is alternator which generates power from the vehicle.
00024 Power take-off (PTO) allows the hosting energy source to transmit power to additional equipment that does not have its own engine or motor.
00025 We have used the PTO gear whose input gear is connected with the propeller shaft of the vehicle’s engine. The output of the PTO gear box will be connected to one end of driving pulley. The other end of driving pulley will be connected to the Alternator.
00026 The connection of PTO to alternator is done by different shaft and belt. According to the power calculation, number of belts will be selected. Assembly design plays a very vital role and has been done from PTO to alternator through intermediate shaft. Using the Principle of PTO and Alternator, here the main engine power transfer through PTO to alternator for producing electricity which can be used for further applications as per requirement.
00027 The main engine power transfer to PTO by main shaft and the same input power transfer from PTO in two different applications. In Auxiliary mode, PTO output power transfer to alternator through intermediate shaft. Whole assembly design of Power generation unit is mentioned in Fig-1.
00028 When Vehicle engine is on, we need to engage the PTO with the vehicle. Once the PTO is connected with the vehicle, the PTO gear with the belt starts moving. we need to fix the vehicle RPM @ 1500. Once vehicle RPM reaches 1500 RPM then the alternator starts giving rated current. Basically through vehicle propeller shaft, we rotate the Pulley via PTO gear, once the alternator pulley is rotated, alternating current (AC) passes through a magnetic field and an electrical current is generated.
00029 V belt is selected with Alternator and pulley considering the precise power transmission requirement. V belt provides the best combination of traction, speed of movement, load of the bearings and long service life.
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00030 The invention described in this Patent solves the need of providing clean Potable water in remote areas where clean water is not available, and the Source of Electrical Power is also not available. The above objective is met by integrating several existing Products available in the market and integrating and controlling them for achieving the above mentioned objective.
00031 The Commercially available Vehicle is suitably modified to suite the above objective. Refer Figure -1. The Cargo Area 60 is fully opened up by removing the standard protection structure provided in Cargo Vehicle. An Additional Structure 60 is provided to protect the inside plant element, and at the same time providing necessary accessibility for Operation and Maintenance of the Water Purification Plant.
00032 Just Behind the driver cabin 10, the Power Generating Alternator 40 is placed. This location gives the flexibility of driving the Alternator 40 through a series of specifically designed Power Transmission Components like Belts, Pulleys, Plummer Block Bearings and Propeller Shafts. The Transmission Components are described and illustrated in details in Figure 3. The Alternator 40 is controlled by Electrical Panel 30. The panel is located in such a way that the operations of Plant can be controlled by operator standing outside the plant, and monitoring the performance of the Water Purification plant. The Parameters which are controlled are mainly Flow of Water and the Pressure at which the unclean water is fed to the plant.
00033 The necessary pressure for unclean water is generated by Pumps 50 mounted behind the driver cabin. The pumps are driven by the electrical power of the alternator, and produces set pressure continuously driving the dirty water through the Water Purification System of Pre Filters and Reverse Osmosis Filters 20. The Orientation and position of Filters 20 is placed at the Rear of cargo cabin so that the performance of Filters can be monitored and periodic cleaning, inspection, maintenance and replacement of Filter elements can be performed easily without dismantling other Plant Components.
00034 The Piping, Control Gauges, Wiring and Intermediate storage tanks are fully integrated in the cargo space, providing a complete self contained unit, which requires only un clean water as input and produces the clean water as an output. Thus Figure 1 described the Preferred Embodiment of Arrangement of Water Purification Plant within the available Cargo Space of Standard Commercial Vehicle.
00035 The above objective is achieved by a newly invented Power Take Off unit which specifically provides the selection of Power output to either Vehicle Propeller Shaft and Differential of Rear Wheels, or to another Flange which drives the Alternator. Figure - 2 shows the main components of the preferred embodiment Power Take Off unit. The Power Take Off unit is connected to Lever 10 with cables. When the lever 10 is in forward selection the Power of the Engine is delivered to the differential wheels connected to flange 30. In case the the lever is pulled backwards the internal gears of the output shaft switches and the power is transmitted to flange 40. In both cases the power of engine via Transmission Gearbox of vehicle is delivered to input power flange 20.
00036 The Speed of the input flange 20 is controlled by selecting suitable Gear of the Vehicle, and keeping the constant speed of the engine by selecting the accelerator cable position at a marked location. In case of the power is delivered to the Alternator 80, the details of components are shown in Figure 3. When the vehicle is driving the power of vehicle is delivered to flange 40 which is connected to Propeller shaft 50 which in turn connects to rear wheel differential. The Preferred embodiments Belts and Pulleys in two stages shown by 60 and 70 are so designed and sized that the necessary constant speed on load required to drive the alternator efficiently at specified speed is achieved. The arrangement of Belts and pulleys are supported by Plummer blocks 90. Thus the arrangement of belts and pulleys shown in 60 and 70 needs to be matched to the requirement of Water Purification Plant and depends on available power and torque at the vehicle engine output flange. The whole arrangement of Power Take off units and belts and pulleys
00037 Figure - 4 shows the Housing and Details of the invention of Power Take Off unit external view. The PTO is mounted by a suitable housing mounting flange 10 from top. The operation of PTO generates heat due to meshing of internal gears and power transmission and is lubricated and cooled by the oil poured into the PTO chamber. The level of Oil is indicated by the level glass 20. Due to transmission of power heat is generated and the same is dissipated to oil which results into oil fumes created in the PTO chamber. These fumes are released to atmosphere by letting them out through breather 30. The PTO has gears, shafts, bearings and splines arrangement for power output flange selection.
,CLAIMS:We CLAIM ;( Original Claims)

1. That we have designed a system to generate electricity from the vehicle. Vehicle is connected to a combination of electro mechanical components. When the vehicle is on and runs at 1500 RPM then it can produce electricity as per rated design with the help of electro mechanical components.
2. That Power generation & transmission through vehicle engine generating multi pressure for water treatment application (SSBI-CWT-1000)®”.
3. That the main engine power transfer to PTO by main shaft and the same input power transfer from PTO in two different applications. In Auxiliary mode, PTO output power transfer to alternator through intermediate shaft. Whole assembly design of Power generation unit is mentioned in Fig-1.
4. That Power generation & transmission unit including specially designed gear” mentioned in fig. 1.
5. That Specific system with Belt and pulley mechanism to generate 1500 RPM at Alternator and produce the power as required mentioned in fig.1.
6. That handling of variable pressure water treatment application using power generated and transmitted by vehicle.
7. That Power generation system whole assembly with mentioned in fig. 2.
8. That Power transmission system assembly to efficiently transmit power to the water treatment plant mentioned in fig. 2.

(Amended as per the Objection raised by the Controller of Patent & as per revised Drawings)

We CLAIM;

1. A vehicle attached with self contained Water Purification Plant equipment arranged in the cargo space area of the Standard Commercially available Cargo Vehicle. The concept of housing all the necessary components within cargo space area, making them function in optimal way, and providing ease of operation and maintenance. The Water Purification Plant arranged in vehicle consists of Preliminary Filter, Pumps, Pumps Controls, Plumbing and Piping, Pressure indicators, Electrical Panel and Switch gears, Reverse Osmosis Filter Housings and Filter Elements. Unlike [1] the plant is not made portable, but the plant is directly built into the cargo area of Transport vehicle.
a. Wherein the power required for driving the pumps can be provided by external electrical power source, specifically to make plant self sufficient, and operable at remote area where power source may not be available, the above described plant is provided with built in arrangement for generating power using Alternator.
b. Wherein the Alternator thus provided requires the mechanical energy to drive the shaft, the same is provided by suitably sized Belts, Pulleys arrangement. The sizing of belts and pulleys is done optimally to suite the Torque and Speed characteristics of the Water Purification plant pump, so that the generator operates in the optimum preferred speed range of 1500 rpm. While one such arrangement is demonstrated and described in above description of invention, but all other alternatives means of power transmission, like gears, propeller shafts may be used, and the same are to be interpreted as other possible alternatives to preferred embodiment of Belts and Pulleys described above, and needs to be interpreted as variant of this unique concept.
c. Wherein the power of vehicle is not required to be utilized for propelling and transporting the vehicle, so this readily available resource is used as a preferred means of power source by unique invention of coupling of Vehicle engine to Power Transmission components by uniquely Designed and matched Power Take Off Unit.
d. Wherein the Power Take Off unit is completely controlled from Driver cabin through use of selection gears, and Handle and Cable arrangement offering the advantage of utilizing the power of engine for driving the Water Purification Plant. This selection within Driver cabin offers fool proof operation of either the vehicle for transportation or for operating the Water Purification plant, effectively eliminating the Power Generation Components from the requirement.
e. Wherein this self contained nature of power generation along with the ease of transportation of the vehicle to remote areas near the source of impure water, makes this arrangement as an attractive alternative for meeting the local community needs.
2. The Vehicle Power Take Off Unit attachment of Claim 1 with its unique selection method of reaching the power to either generator or to vehicle wheels with simple shift of lever completely at desire of vehicle driver.
3. The Belts and Pulleys of Claim 1 or alternate possible arrangements which are integrated with the vehicle transmission system offering ease of Power Generation through Alternator without compromising the portability of vehicle.
4. The Water Purification Plant of Claim 1, which is housed in the Cargo compartment area of the vehicle affording complete portability.
5. The ability to operate the vehicle without the external electrical source of Claim1.
6. The ability to operate the Water Treatment Plant at various pressures through control panel described in Claim 1, by operating the Plant at various set pressures saving fuel consumption, giving optimum purity and quantity of output water
7. The ability to operate and maintain Water Purification Plant as per Claim 1, without compromising the ease of operation and maintenance of the Water Purification Plant.