INNOVATION AND LATEST
TECHNOLOGY IN WIND
ENERGY WORLD WIDE
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What is wind power?
The wind is a clean, free, and readily
available renewable energy source. Each day,
around the world, wind turbines are
capturing the wind’s power and converting it
to electricity. Wind power generation plays
an increasingly important role in the way we
power our world – in a clean, sustainable
manner.
Advantages of Wind Energy
Clean & Environment friendly Fuel source:
It doesn’t pollute air like power plant relying on
combustion of fossil fuel. It does not produce atmospheric emissions that
cause acid rain or green house gases (carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane
(CH4)). Noise and visual pollution are both environmental factors, but
they don’t have a negative effect on the earth, water table or the quality
of the air we breathe.
Renewable & Sustainable:
Winds are caused by heating of atmosphere by the
sun, earth surface irregularities and the rotation of the
earth. For as long as the sun shines the wind blows, the
energy produced can be harnessed and It will never run out,
unlike the Earth’s fossil fuel reserves.
Cost Effective:
Wind energy is completely free. There’s no market for the
demand and supply of wind energy’s, It can be used by anyone and is
one of the lowest price renewable technologies available today,
depending upon the wind resource and the particular project’s financing.
Industrial and Domestic Installation:
Wind turbines can be built on existing farms or ranches
where most of the best wind sites are found. Wind turbines uses only a
fraction of the land which causes no trouble in work for the farmers and
rancher, providing landowners with additional income paid by the
owners of the wind power plants. Many landowners opt to install
smaller, less powerful wind turbines in order to provide part of a
domestic electricity supply.
Disadvantages of Wind Energy
Fluctuation of Wind and Good wind sites:
Wind energy has a drawback that it is not a
constant energy source. Although wind energy is sustainable and will
never run out, the wind isn’t always blowing. This can cause serious
problems for wind turbine developers who will often spend significant
time and money investigating whether or not a particular site is suitable
for the generation of wind power. For a wind turbine to be efficient, the
location where it is built needs to have an adequate supply of wind
energy.
Not a profitable use of land:
Alternative uses for the land might be more highly
valued than electricity generation.
Noise and aesthetic pollution:
Wind turbines generate noise and visual pollution. A
single wind turbine can be heard from hundreds of meters away.
Although steps are often taken to site wind turbines away from
dwellings. Many people like the look of wind turbines, others do not
and see them as a blot on the landscape.
Threat to wildlife:
Birds have been killed by flying into spinning turbine
blades. However it is believed that wind turbines pose less of a threat
to wildlife than other man made structures such as cell phone masts
and radio towers. Most of the problems have been resolved or
greatly reduced through technological development or by properly
siting wind plants.
Cost of wind Turbine
An extra meter of tower will cost roughly 1.500 USD
Growth of Wind Energy
Available potential for wind in India
The available
potential for wind
in India is 45000
MW out of which
at present we are
using only
21000MW.
Different Types of Technology
Used in Wind Power
Generation
America's Cup Sailing Points the Way to
Floating Wind Turbine Technology
ASTON, PA (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
American Offshore Energy takes a page
out of America's Cup sailboat design
technology to build a patented high-tech,
low cost floating
Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT). The
aerodynamic section of this VAWT is
built with a combination of sailboat mast
and bicycle wheel technology. The
tension and compression design
principles allow for stiff, light weight
fixed-wing-composite sail structures that
can be scaled to huge sizes. The low
centre of gravity and broad support base
creates a stable floating wind turbine
design.
With kinematic support bearings and generation at the
perimeter, there is no central shaft. Each bearing point is
directly above one of three floats which are tied together
structurally and secured to three anchor screws on the sea
floor and located to provide anti-rotation.
The turbine would be assembled on shore and could be
towed though shallow water out to deep water moorings.
Sail-type air foils are the lowest cost per sq. ft. and the
lightest weight air foils possible. They can be automatically
reefed to fit conditions or completely furled for hurricanes.
A turbine 100 miles off shore could be towed back for
major repairs in a day. This reduction in risk reduces the
cost of money and insurance on the project.
Floating turbines allow for sitting wind farms more than 25
miles off shore, putting them out of migratory bird patterns,
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) issues and State Jurisdictions.
The daytime thermal issues that require high towers on land are
eliminated far out at sea as wind aloft reattaches to the water
surface providing high capacity generation factors. Capital
costs for the large castings, gears and roller bearings in the
conventional turbine supply chain are not necessary with this
design. Manufacturing can scale quickly using common steel
fabrication and fiber glass technologies. A franchise model
could put wind turbine factories and jobs in our old ship
building, Navy Yards or cargo transfer ports on both coasts and
the Great Lakes allowing us to leapfrog foreign turbine builders
with a technology that suits America’s resources.
Fuller Wind Turbine
Solar Aero Research, New
Hampshire, has patented a bladeless wind
turbine with a mesh-covered air inlet,
which poses no danger to bats and birds.
Nor will it disrupt radar used by air traffic
controllers and the military. The Fuller
Wind Turbine, developed over four years
with £215,000 of private investment,
harnesses the viscosity of air passing over
the rims of thin discs to generate energy.
Designed with urban rooftops in mind, the
entire housing swivels almost silently as it
tracks the wind – the only visible motion.
Ridgeblade Wind Turbine
This time,
instead of solar roofing shingles,
it’s the Ridge Blade, “an
innovative, affordable and
effective way of harnessing the
wind’s power to produce
renewable electricity.” The Power
Collective in the United Kingdom
came up with the idea – it’s
designed to maximize energy
potential, even in low wind, while
being visually discreet.
From the pictures, the The unit looks like it will
be barely noticeable. It sits right on the ridge line
on the top of buildings. Wind is forced over the
surface, pushing air through the turbine to
generate electricity.
This new technology
is an innovative, affordable and effective way of
harnessing the wind's power to produce renewable
electricity.
Breakthrough in
wind turbine design
Fukushima’s nuclear crisis has led a
new pathway of thinking for researchers at Kyushu
University, Japan. They have led their innovations
on the most-reliable and renewable energy source
above their nuclear resources. They have come up
with an amazing design of turbine that has thrice
the output of conventional wind turbines and is
cost-effective too. They call the new design, ‘wind
lens.’ They claim this design to be very efficient
and having reduced noise levels. This design will
surely revolutionize energy generation.
Power Flower wind turbine trees
Generating electricity from turbines is a
good idea provided you have lot of land and infrastructure.
NL architects at Netherlands have come up with an idea that
brings tree-like structures near to your homes to generate
electricity. These structures called ‘Power Flowers’ have
multiple vertical axis wind turbines. This is a latest
innovation that enables capturing of wind power with good
efficiency. With an elegant design, little noise pollution,
these structures work on 4 kW Eddy turbines that are
grouped in numbers of three or twelve. These Flowers are
also used to distribute the energy at the same time. This
advancement in tapping wind power can be termed the best
in terms of availability of the energy at domestic level.
Trans wind energy generation
Not only an efficient energy generating system this
innovation is about, but also a new transport system not
dependent on any fuel. Sails that glide on wires supported by
towers are used to generate energy. Larger sails generate more
energy that is directed towards generators. A passenger carrier
slides on the wires, which gets its power from sails that power
the motor. These motors keep the carrier going and any excess
power from sails is directed to the power grid. In this manner, a
new way of transport is available along with energy production.
Each carrier is believed to accomplish the power requirements of
around twenty households. This design is believed to have three
times the efficiency of conventional wind turbines. It cuts down
the requirement of fuels and other resources and efficiently taps
the existing and consistent wind power, which is available and
accessible without manmade limitations.
New German Kite Technology
Traps Wind Power
(A.K.A)
Kite wind generator
The earth’s winds get faster the higher they are above the
surface, and in Germany, they are hoping to capitalize on that
fact to generate tons of wind power.
The new technology may come in different forms, from
airplanes to helium ballon-rings, but many German researchers
are looking at kites as a way to increase the country’s
renewable energy production.
Researchers have long known that at 300-500 meters
(984-1640 ft) above the earth’s surface, energy harvested
from wind could double. At that height, the wind is not just
faster. It is also more consistent since none of it dissipates
from hitting barriers such as mountains like down below.
Many scientists are still skeptical; US company Makani built
a high-altitude wind power (HAWP) device that generates
600 kW of energy, but even that isn’t enough to make the
technology financially viable. Indeed, the goal that each
HAWP device will generate the necessary 1-2 megawatts per
day might just be impossible, according to the researchers.
Google bought the company recently, so the idea at least has
a lot of potential. 70 German companies are involved in the
search for the perfect HAWP. One company that is working
on HAWPs, Altaeros, has even discussed making a
helium-balloon ring that has a wind turbine in the center, so
researchers are really looking into all the options.
Germany is currently working on transitioning away from
fossils fuels: they now get 8% of their electricity from wind
power, with 700 offshore turbines 25,000 on land.
Honeywell Wind Turbine
Honey well is a rooftop wind
turbine that works in wind speed as
low as 2 mph.
It designed for homes and
businesses.
Honeywell turbine does not have
gears like traditional turbines.
It creates power from magnetsin its
blades tips and in the enclosure for
the blades.
Lower resistance , which can
means higher power output.
Architectural Wind
Architectural Wind is
a small Wind turbine
that can be mounted on
the top edge of a
building.
A Variety of
buildings have installed
rows of these turbines.
As the wind hits the side
of a building, the resistance
creates an area of
accelerated air flow straight
up.
This Wind turbines
catches Winds as they travel
up the wall.
The stronger the winds,
the faster it turns.
The Sky Serpent
The Sky Serpent
makes use of multiple
rotors attached to a
single generator.
The Sky Serpent’s
rotors are spaced and
angled to ensure that
each one is catching
fresh wind.
Makani Wind Generator
The Makani Airborne Wind
Turbine(AWT) is a tethered
airfoil outfitted with turbines.
The wing flies across the
Wind in Vertical loops, fixed
to the ground by a flexible
tether.
Air moving across the rotors
forces them to rotate, driving
a electricity, which travels
down the tether to the grid.
The Buoyant Airborne Turbine
High altitude winds are one of
the largest untapped renewable
resources in the world.
There is enough energy in high
altitude winds to power
civilization 100 times over.
High altitude winds are more
consistent and average around
twice the velocity , with five to
eight times the power density,
than those found near ground-
level. In the U.S alone , over
60% of potential wind sites
for tower-mounted systems
were found to be
uneconomical.
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