3D Wind-Solar Aggregator With Spherical Joints for Low-Wind Power
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wind power generating systems have low efficiency due to the loss of 70% wind energy and inability to utilize low velocity winds, and conventional wind-solar systems are non-detachable, leading to high production and transportation costs.
Innovation Solution
A socket joint-typed three-dimensional wind-solar congregating power generating system that includes a square-shaped wind-solar aggregator with diminishing wind inlet channels, a vertical axis wind power generator, and a wind-solar catcher with radially extending rods and solar catching films, allowing for efficient energy capture from wind and solar sources, and featuring detachable components for reduced costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If conventional wind power generating systems use blades to capture wind energy, then power generation occurs, but less than 30% of wind energy is absorbed and 70% is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The wind catcher is divided into multiple socket joints that can independently rotate and adjust their orientation. This segmentation allows each joint to optimize its angle for capturing wind from different directions, thereby reducing energy loss and improving overall power generation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The socket joints are designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing the wind catcher structure to rotate and reposition itself in response to varying wind directions and speeds. This dynamic adaptation enables the system to continuously optimize wind capture, reducing energy loss and enhancing productivity.
2Productivity
If pole height and blade length are increased to improve power generation efficiency, then more wind energy can be captured, but the system becomes bulky and production cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of simply increasing the height and length of blades in a linear fashion, the invention introduces a three-dimensional wind catcher structure with multiple socket joints that operate in different spatial dimensions. This allows the system to capture wind from multiple directions simultaneously, improving efficiency without proportionally increasing overall system size or complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The wind catcher employs a nested structure where multiple wind capture elements are arranged concentrically around a central axis. This nesting approach allows multiple functional components to occupy overlapping spatial volumes, improving power generation capacity without linearly increasing the system's external dimensions or structural complexity.
3Strength
If conventional wind-solar power generating systems use non-detachable parts, then structural integrity is maintained, but occupying cost and transportation cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The wind-solar power generating system is divided into modular components connected by socket joints. These modular segments can be manufactured separately, transported independently, and assembled on-site, significantly reducing transportation costs and occupying expenses while maintaining structural integrity through proper joint design.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular components are pre-assembled and tested as separate units before final installation. This preliminary assembly allows for quality control and optimization of each module independently, reducing overall production costs and facilitating easier transportation and installation while ensuring the final structure maintains required structural integrity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system achieves high efficiency in power generation from wind and solar energy, including low velocity winds and weak sunlight, with increased electric energy production through adjustable components and reduced production and transportation costs.
Implementation Method 1
between two adjacent lateral wind guide plates forms a diminishing wind inlet channel... the bell mouth structure cooperates with a corresponding wind inlet channel of the wind-solar aggregator and functions as a wind catching channel
Implementation Method 2
a plurality of wind-solar catching films that absorb solar energy
Data Source
AI summary
A three-dimensional wind-light congregating power generating system with spherical joints includes a spherical joint wind-light congregating device (10), a spherical joint wind-light trapping device (20), both of which are assembled through spherical joints, and a vertical axis wind generator (30), wherein the profile of the spherical joint wind-light congregating device (10) is the shape of rectangular paralleling and comprises four wind lateral guiding boards (15) equally spaced around a center, a gradually narrowing wind inlet passage (150) is formed between adjacent wind lateral guiding boards (15), and the wind inlets of the wind inlet passages (150) are located respectively at the four sides of the spherical joint wind-light congregating device (10); the spherical joint wind-light trapping device (20) comprises wind-light trapping rods (22) and wind-light trapping films (21) for absorbing solar energy; the vertical axis wind generator (30) is mounted in the center of the spherical joint wind-light congregating device (10). The present power generating system applies an assembled structure with spherical joints, the components of the system can be produced in standardization and be assembled together by simple tools, and a plurality of miniwatt power generating systems can be assembled to a high power generating system; the power generating system can generate electricity efficiently all day even in the condition of gentle breeze and weak light.