GB2444557A - Wind turbine with funnel inlet - Google Patents

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GB2444557A
GB2444557A GB0624513A GB0624513A GB2444557A GB 2444557 A GB2444557 A GB 2444557A GB 0624513 A GB0624513 A GB 0624513A GB 0624513 A GB0624513 A GB 0624513A GB 2444557 A GB2444557 A GB 2444557A
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D3/00—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor 
    • F03D3/04—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  having stationary wind-guiding means, e.g. with shrouds or channels
    • F03D3/0436—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  having stationary wind-guiding means, e.g. with shrouds or channels for shielding one side of the rotor
    • F03D3/0445—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  having stationary wind-guiding means, e.g. with shrouds or channels for shielding one side of the rotor the shield being fixed with respect to the wind motor
    • F03D3/0463—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  having stationary wind-guiding means, e.g. with shrouds or channels for shielding one side of the rotor the shield being fixed with respect to the wind motor with converging inlets, i.e. the shield intercepting an area greater than the effective rotor area
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D3/00—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor 
    • F03D3/002—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  the axis being horizontal
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D3/00—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor 
    • F03D3/005—Wind motors with rotation axis substantially perpendicular to the air flow entering the rotor  the axis being vertical
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03—MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03D—WIND MOTORS
    • F03D9/00—Adaptations of wind motors for special use; Combinations of wind motors with apparatus driven thereby; Wind motors specially adapted for installation in particular locations
    • F03D9/20—Wind motors characterised by the driven apparatus
    • F03D9/25—Wind motors characterised by the driven apparatus the apparatus being an electrical generator
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F05—INDEXING SCHEMES RELATING TO ENGINES OR PUMPS IN VARIOUS SUBCLASSES OF CLASSES F01-F04
    • F05B—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G
    • F05B2240/00—Components
    • F05B2240/10—Stators
    • F05B2240/13—Stators to collect or cause flow towards or away from turbines
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
    • Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
    • Y02E10/70—Wind energy
    • Y02E10/74—Wind turbines with rotation axis perpendicular to the wind direction

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Abstract

A wind turbine has a funnel shaped inlet 1 which directs the wind onto a rotor 2. The rotor 2 may have a vertical or horizontal axis. The rotor 2 may also be enclosed within a housing and arranged to drive an electric generator 4. Stationary guiding vanes may be provided to guide the wind onto the rotor 2. The wind turbine may be orientated with respect to the wind direction by a wind vane or by an electric motor.

Description

Wind Funnel Generator This invention relates to a wind-powered
generator.
A usual wind-powered propeller type generator can have many drawbacks They are expensive to construct and high technology designs has to be used for the larger ones using the latest carbon fibres and mateiials. Where as this simple funnel wind powered generator uses low technology and standard mate als that are readily available.
A usual wind powered propeller type generators also have a lot of planning objections for many reasons These can be noise pollution, the large blades slicing through the air. Hann to birds, as wind faims are usually sited along the same strong wind currents birds use to migrate. There is of course the aesthetics and that basically people object to seeing a spinning propeller, visual pollution.
Usual wind-powered propeller type generators also have one other major drawback andthatis, ironically, ifthe wind getstoohightheyfiayeto stop workingortheywill just spin too fast and be damaged. So when they can actually receive the most power they have to shutdown orthey will fail.
This invention overcomes the objections I have just mentioned by placing the turbine inside and is considerably cheaper and easier to construct.
The funnel or funnels facing the wind concentrate it onto and around a turbine placed inside a container, which turns a generator. The advantage of this being a large area of wind is captured and funnelled onto a turbine, which can rotate faster than a normal propeller type turbine wind generator.
Because the turbine is placed inside a container noise pollution is greatly reduced.
Netting can be placed across the funnel entrances stopping any birds flying in and hitting a turbine.
Smaller tunnel turbines can be made for use on individual households and will be less of an eye sore than normal wind turbines.
Larger wind funnel generators would have to be rotated to face into the wind using an electnc motor but smaller wind funnel generators can use a wind vane By vay of example only, an embodiment of the invention will now be descnlied in greater detail with reference to the accompanying drawings of which: Fig. I shows the design of a wind funnel generator with several veins to concentrate the wind onto and around a turbine.
Fig. 2 shows the design of a wind funnel generator with no veins to concentrate the wind onto and around a turbine.
Refezzing to the drawings, Fig I shows a plan drawing and a perspective of a wind funnel generator. The funnels I are faced into the wind using the motor 3 to rotate the S * * whole apparatus into the wind. The funnels now concentrate the wind onto and around the turbine 2, rotating it and turning the generator 4.
Fig. 2 shows a plan drawing and a perspective of a wind tunnel generator. The funnel I is faced into the wind using the motor 310 rotate the whole apparatus into the wind.
The funnel now concentrates the wind onto and around the turbine 2, rotating it and turning the generator 4 4 4

Claims (8)

  1. * Claims 1. A wind powered generator where the wind is funnelled onto a
    turbine.
  2. 2. A wind powered generator according to claim I where the wind is funnelled onto and around a turbine.
  3. 3. A wind powered generator according to any of the previous claims in which the turbine is vertical.
  4. 4. A wind powered generator according to any of the previous claims in which the turbine is horizontal.
  5. 5. A wind powered generator according to any of the previous claims in which the turbine is at any angle
  6. 6. A wind powered generator where the turbine is placed inside a container and the wind is funnelled onto the turbine.
  7. 7. A wind powered generator where the turbine is placed inside a container and the wind is funnelled onto and around the turbine.
  8. 8. A wind powered generator according to any of the previous claims in which the turbine turns an electrical generator.
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Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US8197178B1 (en) 2009-01-27 2012-06-12 Chen Franklin Y K Wind cone windmills and application to energy harvesting factory ships
AT511955A4 (en) * 2011-09-15 2013-04-15 Univ Graz Tech WIND TURBINE
WO2017203073A1 (en) * 2016-05-24 2017-11-30 Cordero García Francisco Automatic energy-recycling booster system
CN107869426A (en) * 2017-10-18 2018-04-03 合肥果成科技有限公司 One kind is used for cell or desert flat-bottomed land gorge manage-style electric system
WO2020174501A1 (en) * 2019-02-25 2020-09-03 Svavarsson Oskar Windmill turbine arranged horizontally in a flat rack container-like structure for ships

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EP0509127A1 (en) * 1991-04-19 1992-10-21 Francis N. Hector, Sr. Wind energy collection system
US5332354A (en) * 1993-07-15 1994-07-26 Lamont John S Wind turbine apparatus
WO2001023757A1 (en) * 1999-09-29 2001-04-05 Denis Guay Steerable fluid current-powered turbine
US6270308B1 (en) * 1998-11-21 2001-08-07 Wilhelm Groppel Wind generator
GB2402976A (en) * 2003-06-05 2004-12-22 Intec Power Systems Ltd Generator
GB2413829A (en) * 2004-05-07 2005-11-09 Andrew Douglas John Buckingham Wind operated turbine.
WO2006054290A2 (en) * 2004-11-16 2006-05-26 Israel Hirshberg Use of air internal energy and devices
US7056082B1 (en) * 2005-02-10 2006-06-06 Taylor John B Four cycle wind implosion engine

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0509127A1 (en) * 1991-04-19 1992-10-21 Francis N. Hector, Sr. Wind energy collection system
US5332354A (en) * 1993-07-15 1994-07-26 Lamont John S Wind turbine apparatus
US6270308B1 (en) * 1998-11-21 2001-08-07 Wilhelm Groppel Wind generator
WO2001023757A1 (en) * 1999-09-29 2001-04-05 Denis Guay Steerable fluid current-powered turbine
GB2402976A (en) * 2003-06-05 2004-12-22 Intec Power Systems Ltd Generator
GB2413829A (en) * 2004-05-07 2005-11-09 Andrew Douglas John Buckingham Wind operated turbine.
WO2006054290A2 (en) * 2004-11-16 2006-05-26 Israel Hirshberg Use of air internal energy and devices
US7056082B1 (en) * 2005-02-10 2006-06-06 Taylor John B Four cycle wind implosion engine

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US8197178B1 (en) 2009-01-27 2012-06-12 Chen Franklin Y K Wind cone windmills and application to energy harvesting factory ships
AT511955A4 (en) * 2011-09-15 2013-04-15 Univ Graz Tech WIND TURBINE
AT511955B1 (en) * 2011-09-15 2013-04-15 Univ Graz Tech WIND TURBINE
WO2017203073A1 (en) * 2016-05-24 2017-11-30 Cordero García Francisco Automatic energy-recycling booster system
CN107869426A (en) * 2017-10-18 2018-04-03 合肥果成科技有限公司 One kind is used for cell or desert flat-bottomed land gorge manage-style electric system
WO2020174501A1 (en) * 2019-02-25 2020-09-03 Svavarsson Oskar Windmill turbine arranged horizontally in a flat rack container-like structure for ships

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