Resolution of critical environmental issues with WARP{trademark} wind power systems
Conference
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OSTI ID:389896
- ENECO, West Simsbury, CT (United States)
- Hartford Graduate Center, CT (United States)
- National Regulatory Research Inst., Columbus, OH (United States)
A modular patented wind power technology, the TARP{trademark} Windframe{trademark}, forms the basis for environmentally complying electric energy generation and power plants. A TARP Windframe provides two highly amplified wind flow fields to a set of two tailored conventional, low risk, small diameter wind turbines. It also serves as a support for the wind turbines, yaw assembly and protective housing for a core tower and other internal sub-systems. Wind Amplified Rotor Platforms (WARP{trademark}) Systems are tall TARP module arrays about a core tower. These intelligent towers can be flexibly and incrementally deployed into multi-megawatt size wind power plants. While heavily building on proven windmill technology, WARP systems may be shown to surpass current technology windmills in all aspects of system characteristics. WARPs have improved features as a result of amplified gearless and shrouded turbine performance, user friendly operation and maintenance, and high reliability and operation and maintenance, and high reliability and low risk due to small, simple and robust dynamic components. Environmental benefits include an order of magnitude less land requirement, absence of bird kill potential, attractive appearance, lower far field noise and EMI/TV interference, and improved rotor safety through containment means. Operation under extreme icing is also afforded due to both rotor shielding and inherent self-sustaining tower anti-icing shielding and inherent self-sustaining tower anti-icing capability. This avoids the large rotor imbalance and ice shedding predicaments of conventional windmills. System components are suited for low cost volume production, ease of transportation, erection and servicing.
- OSTI ID:
- 389896
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960426--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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