Prime-mover dynamo plants – Fluid-current motors – Wind
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-18
2008-07-15
Ponomarenko, Nicholas (Department: 2834)
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Fluid-current motors
Wind
C290S044000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07400057
ABSTRACT:
An omni directional, vertical discharge wind turbine, consisting of a shroud that captures wind from any direction and directs it to flow vertically through a throat section where an aerofoil multi-bladed rotor is mounted. The rotor shaft is connected to an electrical power generator. The intake of the shroud incorporates multiple horizontally curved blades of toroidal form varying up to nearly twice the size of the rotor diameter, stacked, staggered and secured in place by multiple aerodynamic vertical walls in the radial direction, to form a central collection chamber for wind. The blade curving angles and the stacking arrangement are such that while accelerating and focusing the wind, across the full swept area of the rotor blades, the loss of air from the central collection chamber is significantly reduced by air flow forming a fluid dynamic gate across inactive faces. Utilizing a wedge and collar near the open top discharge the free wind stream flowing across the open top assists in increasing the flow of air through the rotor. With the increased extraction and wider operational envelop, the energy produced per annum of this omni-directional shrouded vertical wind turbine is anticipated to be much higher than that of a standard free wind turbine of same rotor diameter.
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Katru Eco-Energy Group Pte. Ltd
Ponomarenko Nicholas
Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker
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