Vertical-axis wind turbines -- The current status of an old technology
Abstract
Vertical-axis wind turbine technology is not well understood, even though the earliest wind machines rotated about a vertical axis. The operating environment of a vertical-axis wind turbine is quite complex, but detailed analysis capabilities have been developed and verified over the last 30 years. Although vertical-axis technology has not been widely commercialized, it exhibits both advantages and disadvantages compared to horizontal-axis technology, and in some applications, it appears to offer significant advantages.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 432928
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-96-2400C; CONF-9611121-1
ON: DE97000171; TRN: AHC29704%%43
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Japan Wind Energy Association symposium, Tokyo (Japan), 21 Nov 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 17 WIND ENERGY; VERTICAL AXIS TURBINES; HORIZONTAL AXIS TURBINES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; PERFORMANCE; STRESSES
Citation Formats
Berg, D E. Vertical-axis wind turbines -- The current status of an old technology. United States: N. p., 1996.
Web.
Berg, D E. Vertical-axis wind turbines -- The current status of an old technology. United States.
Berg, D E. 1996.
"Vertical-axis wind turbines -- The current status of an old technology". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/432928.
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abstractNote = {Vertical-axis wind turbine technology is not well understood, even though the earliest wind machines rotated about a vertical axis. The operating environment of a vertical-axis wind turbine is quite complex, but detailed analysis capabilities have been developed and verified over the last 30 years. Although vertical-axis technology has not been widely commercialized, it exhibits both advantages and disadvantages compared to horizontal-axis technology, and in some applications, it appears to offer significant advantages.},
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