Rotating Wind Mast with Internal Turbine
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wind-powered turbines face environmental and psychological drawbacks, including wildlife impact, maintenance risks, noise, and public opposition due to perceived dangers and aesthetics.
Innovation Solution
A wind-powered generator design featuring a mast with strategically positioned tower outlets and inlets, creating a pressure differential to drive airflow through a turbine, while the mast's rotation and scoop configuration optimize airflow and reduce noise and visual impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If traditional wind turbines are used, then power generation is achieved, but wildlife is impacted and maintenance risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The turbine is extracted from the traditional outdoor environment and relocated to the interior of a building. The wind turbine is positioned inside a structure with walls that channel wind flow toward the turbine, separating it from external wildlife while maintaining power generation capability.
Solution Approach 2:
Building walls and internal structures serve as intermediaries to guide and concentrate wind flow toward the turbine. The walls act as mediators that redirect atmospheric flow, ensuring sufficient wind reaches the turbine while protecting it from external environmental factors and wildlife.
2Power
If traditional wind turbines are used, then power generation is achieved, but maintenance risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The turbine is extracted from the high-altitude outdoor environment and placed inside a building at ground level or elevated but accessible positions. This extraction from the traditional mounting location eliminates the need for high-altitude maintenance operations and reduces worker safety risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The turbine is positioned at a height and location within the building that provides maintenance personnel with equal accessibility conditions. The internal placement allows workers to access the turbine from multiple directions at comfortable working heights, eliminating the vertical accessibility problems of traditional outdoor turbines.
3Power
If traditional wind turbines are used, then power generation is achieved, but noise and visual impact increase
Solution Approach 1:
The noise-generating turbine is extracted from the outdoor environment and placed inside a building. The building structure acts as an acoustic barrier, containing and attenuating the noise generated by the turbine while allowing it to continue operating for power generation.
Solution Approach 2:
Building walls and structural elements serve as acoustic barriers that block and attenuate noise propagation. The walls act as flexible boundaries that contain the turbine's operational noise within the building structure, reducing external noise pollution.
4Power
If traditional wind turbines are used, then power generation is achieved, but public opposition increases
Solution Approach 1:
The visually prominent turbine is extracted from the outdoor landscape and relocated to the interior of a building. This placement removes the turbine from the visual field of passersby and residents, eliminating the aesthetic complaints and public opposition while preserving its power generation function.
Solution Approach 2:
Building walls and structural enclosures act as visual barriers that conceal the turbine from external view. The building structure serves as a protective shell that hides the turbine's visual presence from the public while allowing it to operate internally for power generation.
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 design enhances power generation efficiency, reduces maintenance risks, minimizes environmental impact, and addresses public concerns by lowering the turbine's visual and noise footprint.
Implementation Method 1
when the wind flows across the one or more tower outlets a pressure differential is created between the one or more tower outlets and the one or more inlets to create an air flow through an internal fluid flow path
Implementation Method 2
the mast configured to rotate such that a windward portion is oriented to face into the wind according to the direction of the wind
Data Source
AI summary
A wind powered generator comprising; a mast having a plurality of tower outlets positioned along on a low pressure portion of a length of the mast; one or more inlets positioned on a high pressure portion of the mast; an internal fluid flow path between the inlet and the tower outlets; a turbine in the fluid flow path; wherein the inlet and tower outlets are arranged such that wind creates air flow through the fluid flow path for motivating a turbine.