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A. SNCHEZ'S WIND TURBINE BLADE

Author: Antonio Snchez Vargas Estepona. Mlaga. Spain e-mail: asmotor@gmail.com

Antonio Snchez's Wind Turbine Blade is characterized by delivering high torque at low and medium revs. It's wide profile, is larger than conventional, but more stable in twoblade configuration. This wind turbine blade achieves the best performance by coupling to low and medium rpm alternators. In recent benchmark tests in wind tunnel, the yield was 170% higher than the conventional blade. Torque difference at start-up or slow revs can be higher tenfold. When a turbine spins, upstream pressure and turbulence increases. The conventional wind turbine blades have good qualities in terms of permeability, light weight, aerodynamics and speed, but have not good efficiency, among other reasons because the turbulent flows cross this blade in many directions, and not only in the correct to push the blade. This added with the centrifugal effect induced by the rotating blades, forces the flow to slide toward the edge and escape the circle swept by the rotor, further decreasing performance. Another drawback of the conventional blade is that the wind passes through very easily when rotating slowly or are stopped. Therefore, the torque generated is very low. Is necessary that the blade turns at a double speed or greater than the wind in order to get acceptable performance in practice, and in fixed blade rotors, difficult or impossible to start in light wind. Then, the wind turbine is idle. The necessary high-speed rotation of these blades (between 1,000 and 2,000 rpm for small turbines) generates noise, can makes them dangerous, and the cost of the parts are expensive because must withstand high mechanical stress.

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3 To improve the existing rotors for horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT), is necessary to have a more efficient blade at low speed, more responsive with light winds. For this, the flow through the blade should be deflected and led to the trailing edge in a more compact form, neutralizing turbulence so that air passes through the rotor without leaking around the edges. This applies most strongly in the direction of rotation, and the rotor start turn with less wind. Then, it generates more torque, and it becomes a lot more wind energy into mechanical energy, because the flow pressure must necessarily follow the channels of the blade, even if it is turbulent. When A.S. turbine spins, markedly decreases the permeability to airflow, and significantly increases the pressure on his forehead. The flow channeled through the channels of each blade, applies pressure on the edges, taking advantage of more wind energy. Although more power is generated, the flow through the blade is lower than a conventional one. This is because it presents more surface, and that is perpendicular to the stream. Although structurally this blade must be stronger than a conventional one, has the advantage that it never over-revs.

This invention proposes a new blade model (fig. 2, 3 and 4) for HAVT. This blade is made by an elongated body (1), bent 90 degrees at the leading edge (2), with a plurality of small divider sheets (3) of the same height as the leading edge, arranged transversely. This will create an airfoil blade, with a plurality of channels (5) in the side facing the wind. When the wind flow reach the blade, this is divided and deflected 90 in each channel and directed toward the trailing edge (4), thus this flow is driving with less turbulence. The deflection and channeling of the airflow creates a pressure which is higher at the leading edge, and is decreasing toward the trailing edge. The pressure applied on the inner edge generates the rotary torque in the blade. This process maximizes the flow pressure on the inner face of the leading edge. With this blade design, a turbine can be smaller, and more efficient, retaining many of the advantages of current turbines. The blade can be rotated on its axis to reduce the area facing the wind, and structural strength can also be high.

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Drawings Figure 2 shows a sectional profile of the blade. Figure 3 shows a perpective view of the blade. Figure 4 shows the operating principles of the blade.

Application The object of this invention is a blade for HAWT, with a special design that improves efficiency and makes a more slower turbine with smaller diameter, that however, generates more power and rotates almost silent. The blade should be coupled in wind turbines equipped with low speed permanent magnet alternators. The excellent torque makes it applicable to other mechanical devices, such as pumping. The blade can be designed to rotate on its axis, to reduce the surface facing the wind, for adjusting torque and speed. According to the conclusions drawn from the evidence in the wind tunnel, can get more torque when the chord and the height of the edge are greater, but also decreases the speed. The best results obtained in the wind tunnel, have been with a two-bladed prototype, 77cm. diameter, 20cm. of constant chord, and 1.5cm constant height in the leading edge. These tests are made with a small permanent magnet alternator, 50W at 1,000 rpm, capable of generating at medium revs.

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6 Benchmarks This new blade has been thoroughly tested with multiple prototypes built of the A. Sanchez, and conventional model blades. In the wind tunnel results are conclusive and demonstrated the A. Sanchez superior performance (170% higher) compared with conventional blade. The generators used in wind tunnel are more responsive to the speed to torque, so the performance of the blade AS with the appropriate generator (low rpm) should improve. Tests with real wind continuing at the time of writing. These tests are much more complex and difficult. For this tests use two positions, with new permanent magnet alternators for high and medium speed, and various equipment such as anemometers, data logger, switchable load box, amp meters / hour, and so on.

A. Snchez turbine test in wind tunnel

7 BENCHMARKS WITH REAL WIND

Wind turbine with AS blades ( 120cm.)

Wind turbine with set blades ( 120cm.)

Tri-blade AS III ( 120cm.)

Bi-blade AS III ( 120cm.)

8 BENCHMARK IN WIND TUNNEL. PROTOTYPES.

A.S. and conventional 77cm turbines (torque and speed medium) for benchmarks in wind tunnel.

A.S. and conventional 77cm turbines (low torque, high speed) for benchmarks in wind tunnel.

A.S. and conventional 66cm turbines for benchmarks in wind tunnel.

WIND TUNNEL BENCHMARK. CURVES 90% COVERAGE IN TEST CHANNEL. TURBINES 77CM. DIAMETER. MEDIUM PROFILE AND SPEED. HIGH RPM GEN.WITH 1:2.5 MULTIPLIER GEAR.

EQUIPMENT FOR TESTS (I)

Real-time wind data

Wind tunnel rear

Wind tunnel

Permanent magnet mini-alternator

EQUIPMENT FOR TESTS (II)

Anemometer

Wind turbine test box

Datalogger.

Amp/hour counter

For more information, visit: http://www.terra.es/personal/sanchezv/ Patent app. P200931284 Estepona. Mlaga, julio de 2.011