HYDROKINETIC ENERGY CORP DESIGNS & DEVELOPS INNOVATIVE, PROPRIETARY UNDERWATER TURBINES

The company was founded in January 2014 by Walter Schurtenberger. 

Hydrokinetic Energy Corp.’s turbine design IP is protected by US patent number US 10,294,913 B2 and in 36 other countries by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT 2015) and a second patent US 11,022,088 B2 has been issued on June 1, 2021. Our 2nd patent, a performance enhancing device, a revolutionary Wildlife and Debris Excluder (WDE) redesign.  We call it a “Vorticized Flow Inducing Wildlife and Debris Excluder”. 

NONE OF THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REFERRED TO ABOVE HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED, CONVEYED, ASSIGNED OR LICENSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART TO ANY THIRD PARTY.

Our patents include the following unique engineering concepts:

1. Flow Velocity Acceleration Technology: Unique Venturi/Bernoulli Flow Accelerator Shroud with Annular Diffuser, substantially increase water velocity through the turbine and energy output
2. Hydrofoil Shaped Rotor and Blades extract maximum torque from any flow speed
3. Wildlife and Debris Excluder (WEC) inducing Vorticized flow increases performance and energy output and prevents marine life and debris from entering the turbine
4. Various Installation and Maintenance Methods: Fixed, Floating, Pivoting and Towed
5. Self-orienting and pivoting installation to capture optimal water flow direction
6. Methodology of Site-specific and Adaptive Turbine Design
7. Proprietary Electronic Control Module and Software for optimal energy extraction assures optimal energy output through flow speed cycles (under development)