List of Publications
1. A. Puppala, M. Soliman and M. Safiuddin, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, A. Abolafia, The Andrew Abolafia Co., Hartford, NY, "Feasibility Study of Rotating Shield Generator," AIAA-2005-5646. 3rd International Conversion Engineering Conference and Exhibit, San Francisco, California, August 15-18, 2005.
2. Puppala A K, Soliman M, Safiuddin M, Abolafia A, "Feasibility Study of Static Field Converter," 3rd International Industrial Simulation Conference 2005 ISC'2005, pp 210-13, Berlin, Germany June 9-11, 2005.
Background
A small business matching grant (March, 2003) between TCIE (The Center for Industrial Effectiveness-SUNY, Buffalo) and The Andrew Abolafia Company of Hartford, NY initiated research on the Abolafia Company's patented technology (published on this web site) at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, electrical engineering department. The patent (and patents pending) are based upon a High Temperature Superconductor energy conversion device termed a "Static Field Converter" that uses a hemispherical High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) element as a rotor. The invention converts the energy in a static magnetic field into useable electrical power. That energy can be significant, clean and abundant. We applied for and received the grant because we were interested in knowing the feasibility of construction of the device.
More than four years of research later an electrical engineering graduate student at UB who worked on the project used the research as the basis of his Master's and Doctoral dissertations and several scientific papers were produced. An analysis was done, using a Finite Element Analysis program, assuming perfect diamagnetic properties for the HTS superconductor.
"Because of the high flux density values of the Permanent Magnet (PM) used in the simulations, and the assumption that the superconductor behaves ideally as a perfect diamagnetic material, the voltage output observed in the simulation was appreciable.
To meet the counter torque when power is being taken out from the system, there must be power input from the prime mover, or the Permanent Magnet must constantly lose its magnetic energy."1
Conclusion: The New Source of Energy
The Andrew Abolafia Company's conclusion is that power is coming from the Permanent Magnet and that the energy contained in certain permanent magnetic materials is appreciable enough to be considered as a hitherto untapped, abundant, clean source of energy that can make fossil fuels obsolete. The substitution of an electromagnet for the permanent magnet would produce data that would support energy being consumed from the magnetic source. The University at Buffalo, SUNY, does not concur with this conclusion but concludes the invention is a promising new type of generator.
Abstract
If the wave form of the output power of the invention is symmetrical (which it is) a perfectly diamagnetic rotor will be repelled by the same magnitude of torque when it exits the magnetic fields of the magnet and output coil as when it enters them (Magnetostatic analysis is appropriate). No energy input is necessary upon exiting the magnetic fields (the rotor, a perfect diamagnet, is always repelled by a magnetic field). A prime mover is only necessary upon entering the combined magnetic fields of the magnet and coil (the rotor, a perfect diamagnet, is always repelled by a magnetic field). The torques acting on the rotor are equal and opposite resulting in zero net torque on the rotor. Therefore a net power of zero horsepower from the prime mover (minus losses) can drive the rotor. The energy to generate the electric power from the Static Field Converter can only come from the magnet. If there is doubt simply substitute an electromagnet. An FEA computer simulation of the invention can corroborate our observations and conclusions at any company, university or research facility in the world with the appropriate IT resources.
Summation: Some types of Permanent Magnetic materials can be used as a new source of energy.
1A. Puppala, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY "Doctoral Dissertation, Dept. of Electrical Engineering," pp.2-3, September, 2007.