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In the hay-day of the oil boom here in Oil City PA, there were lots of wells drilled.
Today it costs to much to install the larger conventional pump jacks on the old wells, such that the oil gotten out of the well would never repay the jack investment cost.
With a Compression Wave Pump you could do away with the sucker rods, and the larger stationary jack motor. You could simple drive a Compression Wave Pump around on the back of a tank truck and drive from well to well to get the oil out.
The grandnephew of Mr. Bellocq, Juan M. Bellocq, graciously sent us a CD with original 16mm movie camara video taken in 1927 of the original Bellocq pump in operation. I have uploaded the videos to the Internet Archive. Alas the video cameras in 1927 did not have sound. If you can lip read, let me know what is being said please.
Note that that there was some discrepancy as to the spelling of the senior Mr. Bellocq's first name, due to what the opening screen of the video shows, and the file names on the original CD. Juan M. Bellocq who supplied the files states that the first name of the senior Mr. Bellocq is clearly Toribio T-o-r-i-b-i-o.
To see the flash videos on this site, your browser needs to have javascript enabled and have the Flash browser plugin, version 7+, from Adobe. (We have not tried opensource Gnash yet, but it is a promising alternative).
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Don't want to disappoint you so here is a lengthy message (Will save you much FAX paper by posting the text this way :-) ). Here is a update of a lengthy message I sent to Jeff when he was having well trouble a couple of years ago. At that time Jeff and Ed felt the "same old same old" was just as efficient as this. Not one to give up I've found much more supporting information.
If some one else wants me to FAX them the pictures to them I'll be happy to, or better yet I'll mail them to some one who can scan them in to some format or other (like PNG) so I can post them on the BBS.
Who wants to be this first to apply DSP techniques to their plumbing?
Greater details may be found at:
036-BEL BELLOCQ, Tonibio: COMPRESSION WAVE PUMP --- In the 1920s, 18 countries issued patents to Bellocq for his amazing pump which apparently violates natural law. By creating compression waves in a pipe, water can be forced to run uphill beyond the 33 foot limit imposed by Toricelli's law.. To force water higher, authorities have agreed that it must be pushed from below. To convince patent examiners that this was not some form of perpetual motion, Bellocq installed his pump atop a building & invited patent officials to examine it. They saw it draw a steady stream up a pipe 80 feet high. Not until they dropped weights down the pipe and found no hidden machinery did they believe their eyes, acknowledge that Bellocq had discovered a new principle, and granted his patent. The pump creates fluid effects equivalent to the electrical analogues of capacity, inertia, resistance, leakage, wave filters, ect..This is the tool that can open new dimensions of resource recovery and development of water, oil, fluidics, hydraulics!
Thu Jun 10 14:05:38 1993:
I've become interested in water pumps, and pumps in general. Failing to find a BBS that deals with water pumps, or even pluming in general, I thought that you might be able to answer a question that has been nagging me. Also this idea seems to have a lot in common with antennas and standing waves.
I've only been able to find two types of conventional deep well pumps, the type with the electric motor at the bottom, and a jet injection type. My question is why all this messing around with having to put water or electricity down the well to get the water back up? [Just as a point of interest I've only found three types of UNconventional pumps, the one described here, the Tesla-Bladeless type, and the Thromp Pump.]
A lot of you are about to tell me about air pressure, and a few would probably bring up Toricelli's Law, my physics book describes all of this dogma quite adequately. As with every thing there is always a anomaly that can be exploited:
Enter Tonibio Bellocq. In the 1920s a fellow by the name of Bellocq got a patent, on some thing he called a Compression Wave Pump. Which worked on a fairly simple idea, compared to todays 'modern' push from the bottom methods.
You take a pipe (black plastic PVC, in 300 feet rolls, will do nicely thank you), place a conventional foot valve at the bottom of the pipe, fill the pipe with a non-compressible fluid, like water or oil. At the top of the pipe you place some thing that resembles an oil-well pumping jack that beats on the water in the pipe [The analogy is crude, a piezoelectric hammer seems like a better idea {Model 710M02 Piezoelectric Actuator from AVC instrumentation, Depew NY/1995 update}].
As you beat on the water which is not going to compress, the energy is transmitted down the column of water till it hits the foot valve. If you select a frequency for the rate of beating on the water that matches the wave length of the pipe you will set up a standing wave. When you get the standing wave node to fall correctly at the foot valve (by changing the frequency of compression), the foot valve will operate. As the water rebounds it will suck in some water from the well, which will displace some water at the top of the pipe, which you can feed into your storage tank. After the rebound is completed the foot valve closes preventing the water in the pipe from coming out the bottom the pipe.
There will be some frictional losses from the water moving along the pipe walls, and at some length the pipe would be to heavy to support its own weigh. You also don't want to get carried away with your beating or you'll push the foot valve out of the bottom of the pipe. It shouldn't take much effort when you find the correct resonant frequency.
Is there some thing that I'm over looking that keeps this method of pumping from working, or keeping it from being in wide spread use?
One other use for Compression Wave Pump that I have thought of is for use in the oil drilling industry. [While I personally believe Free Energy is the answer to our energy/environmental problems, the Guardians of Status-Quo continue to push fossil fuels so in this light I will continue:]
Having grown up in the Oil City PA area, where the history of the modern day oil industry started you can't help but learn a bit about it.
In the hay-day of the oil boom here there were lots of wells drilled. [I've fallen into a couple of them when I was younger, with out serious incident fortunately. :-( ]
Today it costs to much to install the larger conventional pump jacks on the old wells; such that the oil gotten out of the well would never repay the jack investment cost.
With a Compression Wave Pump you could do away with the sucker rods, and the larger stationary jack motor. You could simple drive a Compression Wave Pump around on the back of a tank truck and drive from well to well to get the oil out.
What am I missing (Other than the mechanical aptitude to build these things)?
For any one who is interested here are some references:
US Patent: 1,730,336 10/01/1929 "Apparatus for the Extraction of Liquids"
US Patent: 1,730,337 10/01/1929 "PUMP"
US Patent: 1,941,593 01/02/1934 "PUMPING" [This patent
is
interesting in that it shows the plumbing equivalent to
resonance circuits, high pass, low pass, and band pass
filters.]
Following the example of the United States Patent Office, eighteen countries have issued patents to an Argentinean inventor upon an amazing pump that seems to violate natural laws. By creating waves in a pipe full of water, it makes the liquid run uphill.
When the inventor, Tonibio Bellocq, applied for a United States patent on a pump to be mounted at the top of a well and to draw water up from almost unlimited depth, officials pointed out that his device apparently would have to defy the law of gravitation. Every high school student knows that by no effort can a pump SUCK water higher than approximately thirty-three [32.174 Feet at one atmosphere I believe] feet. This is the limit at which the weight of an imprisoned column of water balances the atmospheric pressure outside. To force water higher from its source authorities have always agreed that it must be PUSHED from below. Therefore Bellocq's "wave pump" seemed in a class with perpetual motions machines, which are not patentable because they are impossible. [According to "Them".]
Bellocq built one of his pumps, installed it atop a Washington, D.C. office building, and invited officials to inspect it. They saw it draw a steady stream of water up a pipe eighty feet high. Not until they dropped weights down the pipe and found no unseen machinery did they believe their own eyes. Then they acknowledged that Bellocq had chanced upon a entirely new mechanical principle and issued his patent.
So extraordinary is the operation of the new wave pump that even Bellocq admits he is not certain of its principle, and leaves to scientists the verification of his own explanation.
In Bellocq's pump a piston vibrates rapidly with an extremely short stroke. It deals hammer like blows to a column of water in a pipe. His theory is that when the frequency of the blows is precisely timed for the length of the pipe "stationary waves" are set up.
Suppose the pipe's bottom to [Can't read about three words here] then layers are formed where the water is alternately rarefied and compressed without moving. Midway between top and at the bottom are regions where water rushes alternately up and down because of the waves.
When a one-way ball valve is added at the bottom, water enters from outside at one point in each wave cycle, to replace water moving upward from the bottom of the pipe. Once inside, it cannot back out. Every influx of water "inches" the whole column upward, without interfering with the waves that travel trough it. A valve at the outlet, while not essential, improves the efficiency.
1995 Update:
References:
"An Acoustic Pump" LAR-14103/Langley Research Center, NASA.
US Patents:
2,444,912: "Method and Apparatus For Pumping", 7/13/1948, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,553,541: "Deep Well Pump", 5/22/1951, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,553,542: "Deep Well Pump Apparatus", 5/22/1951, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,553,543: "Pumping Apparatus", 5/22/1951, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,572,977: "Deep Well Pump", 10/30/1951, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,702,559: "Sonically Actuated Valve", 2/22/1955, A.G. Bodine, Jr.
2,953,095: "Acoustic Deep Well Pump With Free Compression Column", 9/20/1960, A.G. Bodine.
3,163,240: "Sonic Earth Boring Drill with Elastic Fluid Resonator", 12/12/1964, A.G. Bodine.
From Calgary Herald Tues: October 10, 1989: "Enterprise/Entrepreneurs and Personal Finances: Special Pump Pushes more than profits" by Richard Bruner.
"TUCSON, Ariz. - Juan Pascoe is a retired-United
Nations development specialist who not only has found a
solution to water problems of the world's poor rural areas, but
has helped put together a Tucson corporations to make a lot of
money in the process.
"Pascoe's...new pump that will push water out of the ground at the rate of two gallons a minute using a one-fifth horse-power motor that derives its energy from four solar panels.
"Pascoe is the president of a Tucson company that will manufacture and market the new pump [Appropriate Technology Development Inc].
"The pump is the invention of a senior genius who lives in Crossroads, Arthur Perry Bently is the grandson of the man who created the car bearing his name.
"Bently's pump uses a motor that would barely drive a sewing machine. But its work is very limited. All it needs to do is send sonic waves down the well pipe to a valved pumping unit at the well's bottom. The unit picks up the waves and drives its piston up and down. This gushes a whole column of water up the pipe:
"None of this takes much energy, Pascoe points out. Only enought to make some noise down the pipe.
"Benley also has invented a second type of pump, one that slides an electric charge down a black well pipe. The entire pipe becomes like a capacitor of a discharge system on an electric ignition [Sounds a like E.V. Gary's Electric Capacitor Discharge Engine]. It employs its valve system to push the column of water or oil to the surface.
How may times can this same thing be reinvented by different people? ...."There is nothing new under the Sun...See This Is New...."....
Well, that's my opinion/observation, for what it's worth. Anyway, I enjoyed reading your complete and referenced info! Russ
It's a neat idea, save that it takes water to get water. If you don't have any water to start with, the pump doesn't work. I always kept a few dozen gallons around just in case the pump lost its prime... Sort of like money.
I assure you that the reference was to you being the library, not the trash can. It always seems that if anyone has a question you have a volume of data on the subject. It helps keep this BBS interesting. Thanks. --Steve
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