Bladeless Wind Turbine

o Idea by ….

A new contraptive idea by Dutch architecture firm

‘Mecanoo’ & is installed at the Delft University of

Technology, U.S.A.

A bladeless wind turbine with no moving parts that

produces electricity using charged water droplets!

The EWICON: Electrostatic Wind Energy Converter,

has the potential to change the use of wind

technology.

o It’s Design Structure ….

The device comprises a steel frame holding 40 horizontal rows of insulated ceramic tubes, which seems like a large tennis racket.The metal plate consits of battery, inverter,HVDC source ,pump & charging system & it is supported by insulators. The insulated plate acts as capacitor, which is charged by removal of the charged droplets. 

o How it works ????

 

Wind power without spinning blades?? Yes , it’s possible by this....

The Ewicon creates electrical energy directly from wind energy.

Instead of translating the mechanical energy of large blades rotated by the wind, the bladeless turbine lets wind move positively charged water droplets from a nozzle against the direction of an electric field by a process called “Electrospraying”.

This leaves behind the negatively charged particles and increasing the potential energy of the particle.

A collecting system then harvests that excess energy.

o Merits of EWICON ….

Due to lack of large moving parts , the turbine is quieter.

It has low wear & tear and reduced maintenance costs.

It produces much less vibration & making it better suited to Urban locality.

Variety of shapes and sizes.

Hence, if this project attains its goal , this will Epoch a new Power era.

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