Wind Turbine Tower Console with Rotating Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large wind turbines face challenges in social acceptance due to their height, noise, and susceptibility to damage, and require remote or offshore locations, limiting efficient wind power utilization and increasing safety risks.
Innovation Solution
A wind turbine system with a reduced height, featuring a turbine support with multiple turbines that can rotate about a vertical axis, integrated electronics for power generation and control, and secure access to prevent vandalism and ensure safety, utilizing a flexible power line and yaw drive for optimal wind tracking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If large wind turbines are built to achieve significant power output, then power generation capability is improved, but system height increases causing social acceptance problems and safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the wind turbine system into multiple smaller turbines (first and second wind turbines) mounted on a common turbine support, replacing a single large turbine. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high power generation capability through multiple units while reducing the height of each individual turbine, thereby improving social acceptance and reducing safety risks associated with extremely tall structures.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of increasing power output by vertically extending a single turbine, the patent transitions to a horizontal arrangement with multiple turbines mounted on a shared support structure. This dimensional change from vertical stacking to horizontal distribution enables the system to achieve significant power output without proportionally increasing the height of individual components.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If turbine height is reduced to improve social acceptance, then visual impact and safety risks are reduced, but power generation efficiency may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs multiple smaller wind turbines instead of one large turbine, allowing each unit to have a reduced height that improves social acceptance and reduces safety risks. The combined output of multiple segmented turbines maintains the overall power generation efficiency that would be lost if individual turbines were shortened.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple wind turbines on a single turbine support structure, merging their power generation capabilities to achieve significant total output. This consolidation allows the system to compensate for the reduced size of individual turbines through aggregation, maintaining overall power generation efficiency while benefiting from the reduced height of each component.
3Ease of manufacture
If open structure is used to reduce material consumption, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but susceptibility to damage and vandalism increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple wind turbines on a single integrated turbine support structure, creating a more robust and consolidated system. This merged structure reduces susceptibility to damage and vandalism compared to multiple separate open structures, as the unified design provides better structural integrity and protection for the turbine components while remaining cost-effective to manufacture.
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 efficient wind energy conversion while minimizing visual impact, enhancing safety and reducing the risk of damage, allowing for compact, secure, and efficient operation in various locations.
Implementation Method 1
convert the energy of the wind into electrical energy
Implementation Method 2
The bearing point (2) allows the turbine carrier (17) to rotate about a vertical axis of the turbine carrier and relative to a foundation (15)
Data Source
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AI summary
The invention relates to wind turbine installations for generating power. The wind turbine installations comprise a turbine support (17) having at least two wind turbines (4, 4', 4''). A wind turbine installation according to the invention further comprises a tower console (1) having at least one bearing point (2). Said bearing point (2) enables the turbine support (17) to rotate about the vertical axis of the turbine support (17) and relative to a foundation (15). The turbine support (17) is connected to the tower console by means of tower supports (5, 5'). The installation further comprises electronics (18), which include an electronic control. The electronics (18) are also designed in such a manner that the electronics (18) are rotatable about the vertical axis of the turbine support (17) relative to the foundation (18) and relative to a power supply line (13).