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Ortronic® is a new concept of electrical energy that cannot be understood on the basis public knowledge. It has discovered new dimensions of electrical energy that have made it possible to use it in a different way, thus increasing its work production capacity.

The new concepts and new ways of using it are the basis of Ortronic® technology. Compared to any other, it saves more than 50% of the energy necessary to produce the same amount of work, and in theory it could exceed 90%, if machines were manufactured according with his technology. It does not use pulse width modulation technology, PWM, which is used in all converters as standard. It generates alternating current, with any number of phases, through purely electronic means, without using transformers or filters.

Ortronic® multiplies the reactive energy before transforming it into real energy. It recovers the electrical energy after the work has been produced, radically changing traditional knowledge, according to which the energy is transformed into work.


Without understanding the discoveries of Ortronic® it is impossible to justify its results. Basic discoveries, when they stray from traditional knowledge, cannot be understood by those who do not know them, if this weren’t the case they would be of no value. It is a logical consequence that we find in all cases similar to that of Ortronic®.


Let us show two examples prior to Ortronic®:

EXAMPLE ONE

Before knowing of the “heat pump”, in order to heat a house with electrical energy, heaters were used, and it could be stated:

1 Kilowatt/hour = 760 kilocalories


With the heat pump, we can also state:

1 Kilowatt/hour = 1520 kilocalories

The possibility of obtaining double the heat with the same amount of electrical energy could not be understood by those who did not know how heat pumps worked.
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EXAMPLE TWO


Before having knowledge of fusion, it could be stated that:
In theory, the amount of electrical energy that can be generated with a litre of water, by hydraulic means, is under 1 watt-hour.

With knowledge of fusion, it can now be stated that:
In theory, the amount of electrical energy that can be generated with the fusion of one litre of water is more than 1,000,000 watt-hours.

The amount of water is identical in both cases, the enormous difference lies in KNOWLEDGE.

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THE ORTRONIC® CASE

Those who do not have knowledge of Ortronic® can state:
The maximum real power, with a 100 KVA generator supplying a house with a power factor of 0.5 (=0.5) equals 50 kW.

With Ortronic® we can also state:
The maximum real power, with a 100 KVA generator supplying a house with a power factor of 0.5(=0.5) and an Ortronic®, equals 100 kW.

The generator is the same in both cases; the significant difference is, here also, brought by KNOWLEDGE.

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ORTRONIC® ADVANTAGES

1. RECOVERY OF REACTIVE ENERGY

Cargas inductivas

See demonstration (demo.1)

Cargas inductivas y reactivas

See demonstration (demo.2)

2. GENERATION OF REAL ALTERNATING CURRENT.

Corriente alterna

There is a great difference between a variable direct current and an alternating current. In variable direct current there is no reactive energy; in alternating current, there is.

Electronics (radio, TV, communications...) is variable direct. No converter generates real alternating current, Ortronic® is the only converter that generates real alternating current.


3. HIGHER EFFICIENCY THAN ANY OTHER CONVERTER.

Rendimiento

Comparison of efficiency of a conventional converter and an Ortronic®, on the basis of the load power.

The efficiency of Ortronic® is between 95% and 97%. The efficiency of the best converter is between 20% and 90%. Ortronic®, without load, has no consumption. Conventional converters, without load, consume thousands of watts.

4. IT DOES AWAY WITH TRANSFORMERS AND FILTERS.

Transformers are heavy, costly elements, with losses. Ortronic® uses 22 batteries for 220 volt installations and 12 for 110 volt installations, thereby eliminating the output transformer.

It charge the electrical warehouse from the generator, in one-phase or three-phase mode, without the need for a transformer.

Conventional converters work with lower voltages and have to use 2 transformers, one for output to increase the voltage to 220V, and another for input to reduce the charging voltage.

In emergencies, it is not possible to vary the grid voltage, we must regulate the charging voltage with a motorised autotransformer.

5. THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE PHASES.

Three-phase systems, as their name states, have three phases (PH1, PH2 and PH3), with a phase lag between them of 120 degrees, each cycle has 360 degrees and each half-cycle has 180 degrees, as indicated in the following figure.

Intersección entre las fases

For the three phases to act in each cycle it is necessary to introduce three half-cycles of 180 degrees each, adding up to 540 degrees, in a circumference that only has 360 degrees.

Therefore there are 180 degrees left over (540-360), which, distributed among the three phases, result in three 60 degree angles known as intersection angles.

For the 60 degrees of each of these intersection angles, there is a force against the revolution of the motor, which acts as a brake, and taking the three angles, the force against the revolution acts against a total of 180 degrees.

To summarise, we can say that: during each revolution of the motor, there are three forces that act against it for 180 degrees, and another three forces that act in favour of the revolution of the motor for the remaining 180 degrees.

Given that the instant values of the forces acting as brakes are lower than those acting in favour of the revolution, the final result is that, as a consequence of the intersection angles, the motor loses 22% of its total power.

For the same reason, generators in star connection, when the voltage between phases is used, lose 22% of their total power.

Ortronic® is the only known electronic technology that eliminates the brake forces in the three phases.

6. EFFICIENCY OF ELECTRIC MOTORS.

The effiency of an electric motor is equal to the mechanical power applied to its axis divided by the electrical power of the motor, both expressed in the same unit, normally watts.

Most electric motors work at very different mechanical powers: for instance, electric cars require a great deal of power when going up a slope, and very little power when driving flat or going down a slope.

In accordance with the above definition, the efficiency of electric motors depends to a great extent on the mechanical power required by its axis. When the mechanical power reaches its maximum limit, efficency exceeds 90%, but as the mechanical power reduces, so does the efficiency, in practice sometimes reaching values as low as 15%.

It is also a well-known fact that when the efficiency of the motor decreases, due to low mechanical load, so does the power factor.

According to an American journal published some years ago, a subsidiary of the multinational company EXXON® spent 600 million US Dollars seeking an electronic system capable of maintaining motor performance with low loads. After this substantial investment, the project was abandoned without having obtained a solution.

Ortronic® has found the solution that the American multinational was seeking, in addition to other discoveries that add to its great advantages.

7. SPEED VARIATION IN ELECTRIC MOTORS.

The most efficient and accurate way of varying speed in electric motors is by varying frequency. The devices that carry out these functions are known as speed variators.

Speed variators are direct to alternating current converters that vary their frequency within very narrow limits.

The frequency limits are those derived from their technology (PWM), which require LC Filters and transformers to obtain real alternating current.

It is a well know fact that both the coils that form the LC filters and the transformers have a reactance that is defined by: XL= 2πFL, where F is the frequency of cycles per second and L is the self-induction coefficient measured in Henries.

In practice, XL limits the maximum frequency to approximately 400 cycles per second, which in turn limits the maximum speed of a four-pole three-phase motor to approximately 18,000 revolutions per minute.

Given that it does not use transformers or filters in the generation of alternating current, Ortronic® can generate real alternating current of up to 20,000 cycles per second, which would be equivalent to 900,000 revolutions per minute.

Speeds of 50,000 R.P.M. and above could previously only be used with bodies suspended in magnetic fields.

Precision in speed control.

Precision in speed control, for many applications today, is of great importance, and will be even more important when Ortronic® technology becomes widely used in hydraulics.

With Ortronic®, frequency precision is 20 microseconds per cycle, or 0.001%.

8. WIND TURBINES WITH ORTRONIC® TECHNOLOGY

Wind is the most profitable energy of all renewable energies, and is also completely pollution free, both in its production and in its use.

There are basically two types of wind turbines, synchronous  which work in synchronized with another external generator, normally the electricity grid, and asynchronous, which operate independently of any other source of energy.

In order to connect the wind turbines to the electricity grid, they have to be synchronized with the grid, which is why synchronous wind turbines are used, whose frequency and synchronism are permanently controlled by the electricity grid.

Synchronous wind turbines are the cheapest because, as they are controlled by the grid, they do not need to control their frequency, avoiding the need of variable pitch angle propellers, which are very expensive and inefficient.

Synchronous wind turbines, in spite of the low cost of synchronism, have the following disadvantages:

8.1       They only work above a minimum speed Vmi and below a maximum speed Vma, wasting all the wind below and above those speeds, thereby reducing their operation to a narrow range of wind speed.

8.2       With wind speeds below Vmi, they consume electricity rather than generating it, and above the Vma, they do not make use of the available wind.

8.3       Considering the winds below and above Vmi and Vma, we can say that synchronous wind turbines use less than 50% of the available wind energy.

8.4       Ortronic® optimises asynchronous wind turbines.

As already mentioned, asynchronous wind turbines work independently or autonomously, from a minimum speed, much lower than that of synchronous turbines, to a maximum speed much higher than that of synchronous turbines. The maximum speed is only limited by the wind turbine’s mechanical resistance to breakage.

Asynchronous turbines make much better use of wind energy than do synchronous turbines.

The disadvantage of asynchronous turbines is their great variation in frequency, which renders their use practically unfeasible, both when connected to the electricity grid and in autonomous installations.

Ortronic® rectifies the current of the wind turbine and generates its own frequency with an accuracy of 0.001%, and therefore the frequency of the wind turbine no longer matters.

In addition, Ortronic® adds to asynchronous wind turbines the significant advantages offered by its technology, such as:

  • Recovery of reactive energy.
  • Elimination of low performance of motors when working under their maximum power.
  • Elimination of the forces against the revolution of the motors due to the intersection angles.
  • Stabilisation of the frequency with an accuracy of 0.001%, at any wind turbine speed.

In windy areas, each kilowatt-hour with asynchronous wind turbines and Ortronic® is so cheap that even watering the grass to feed the cattle is profitable.
With cheap electrical energy, generated where it is used, as in the case at hand, the great beneficiaries are:

  • Agriculture in general.
  • Live stock farming of all kinds.
  • Food preserves and farming industries.
Entire countries and continents that currently have weak economies, such as the case of Africa, will, in future, become privileged economies as a result of the decrease in the price of electrical energy and the implementation of new technologies.

9. ELECTRIC VEHICLES WITH ORTRONIC®

Electric vehicles are the only application where all the advantages of Ortronic® technology are put to use.

Today, the electric car developed by Tesla Motors® is the most complete vehicle of this kind on the market and is substantially ahead of others.

At Ortronic® we believe that we can show that our technology is very superior to that used by Tesla Motors® and that, consequently, electric cars manufactured with Ortronic® technology will eventually be the solution adopted.

Ortronic® is in contact with multinational companies specialised in technology transfer, to sell rights over Ortronic®  technology, applicable to electric vehicles.

10. INCREASE OF REAL POWER AND USEFUL LIFE OF THE GENERATORS.

11. LOWER POWER GENERATORS CAN BE USED.

12. NO HARMONICS.

Harmonics should not be confused with the “Harmonic Analysis” of Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), who died before Tesla was born.

Harmonics are frequencies that are integer multiples or submultiples of a fundamental frequency.

Distortion is a comparison between two different functions, e.g.: the sinusoidal wave is distorted with regard to the Ortronic® wave.

In order to calculate the distortion with Fourier’s series, the electricity is considered to be vectorial, in the knowledge that it is not, and under that false consideration, the mathematical processor, ignorant of electricity, breaks it down into harmonics.

Conclusion: Ortronic® does not generate harmonics.

PWM

All the converters on the market use the same technology, pulse width modulation (PWM), as shown in the figure to the right.
PWMs are energy packets, all or nothing, containing many harmonics. Each packet is one frequency and it is usual to use over 10,000 packets.

With PWMs, in order to obtain the sinusoidal wave, it is necessary to filter the packets.

Ondas

The Ortronic®  wave does not require filters.

Ortronic® does not use PWM technology; it forms the wave by direct sequential integration from the batteries or direct current supplies. There are no energy cuts in any sections of the half-cycle.

13. NEW GENERATION OF INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT.

14. WE REGULATE THE VOLTAGE OF THE GRID OR GENERATOR TO GUARANTEE ENERGY        STORE CHARGIN IN THE MINIMUM TIME POSSIBLE.
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