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Financing authority: Executive Unit
for Funding the Higher Education System, Research, Development and
Innovation (UEFISCDI)
Project title: Vertical
Axis Hybrid Wind Turbine
Project acronym: HYWINDT
Project code: PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1743
Contract number: 41/2014
Project duration: 01.07.2014
- 30.09.2017 (39 months)
Total contract value (including co-financing): 1.437.500 lei
Funding from government: 1.250.000 lei
Project short description: The
HYWINDT project proposes the development of innovative components for Hybrid
Wind Turbine (HWT) with vertical axis. HWT can be used as renewable energy
solution for generating both electrical and thermal energy. Unlike
classical wind turbines that convert the wind kinetic energy into
electricity only, a HWT converts it both in electricity and thermal energy
using a single and compact Hybrid Wind Generator (HWG).
The technical solutions proposed in the framework of the
project allows the development of HWT characterized by several advantages with
respect to the classical ones, such as: higher efficiency, compactness,
small costs and easier control.
The HWTs can be mixed with other renewable energy harnessing
technologies (PV panels, solar thermal collectors, heat pumps etc.)
depending on the geographical position of the end-user and on the local
renewable energy potential. The coupling of the HWT with PV panels and
solar thermal collectors could provide better results since in many
situations the solar and wind energies compensate each other naturally
(stronger winds in the winter and stronger sunlight in the summer).
The proposed solutions have numerous applications and a good
sales potential. They can be used as solutions to provide electric and
thermal energy for various categories of end-users such as: residential or
commercial buildings, small farms, green-houses, etc. Vertical axis HWTs
can be mounted on building roofs (especially on high buildings), on lateral
building walls or near the buildings either in urban or in rural areas.
A special application of HWTs, with huge economical and
ecological impact, consists in their use as electricity and heat sources
for the new generation of energy efficient buildings whose annual average
energy demand should be supplied from renewable sources (such as wind
energy, solar energy, geothermal etc.) by means of power systems integrated
into the buildings themselves or placed in their immediate vicinity. The
large scale implementation of the energy efficient buildings could bring
important benefits for the world economy, such as: a sustainable
development of buildings sector, huge energy savings, increase of energy
security, reduction of buildings ecological footprint, smaller dependence
on fossil fuels etc. HWTs used as power sources for these buildings can
operate at higher efficiency than other systems, since they can be mounted
directly on the building rooftops or close to them working thus with
minimal thermal losses.
The general objective of the project consists in the design,
development, testing and monitoring for the first time at national and
international level, of innovative components for HWTs able to produce
simultaneously electric and thermal energy. The general objective of the
project can be broken down in the following specific objectives: analysis
of feasible constructive solutions of components for HWTs with vertical
axis; design and execution of the experimental models of the HWG and of the
energy management system; experimental testing and monitoring of the HWG
and of the energy management system.
The participants involved in the execution of the research
project are University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), SC Aeolus Energy
International SRL and National Institute for R&D in Electrical
Engineering (ICPE-CA).
The proposed objectives are reachable, the participants
involving a large number of specialists with rich expertise in all the
activity areas convergent to the studied topics, such as: electrical
machines, heat transfer analysis, materials science, power electronics,
measurement and data acquisition systems, etc.
The project end
product is represented by a functional model of HWG equipped with an energy
management system destined for HWTs, with a total output power (electric
and thermal) of 3 kW. The innovative elements studied in the framework of
the project will be intellectually protected by at least 2 patents and the
results will be disseminated by at least 4 ISI articles/papers.
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