SBIR Phase I: NSF 08-548, Electronics, Components & Engineering (EL), Subtopic: F. Energy and Power Management, F.3 Systems for harvisting alternate energy sources.

SBIR 第一阶段：NSF 08-548，电子，元件

• 批准号: 0912528
• 负责人: David Fiebig
• 金额: $ 9.45万
• 依托单位: Santoro Wind Harvester, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0912528&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; NSF; 08; 548

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I research project is designed to enhance performance of small wind turbines, i.e., increased efficiency and kWh production, through advanced aerofoil design (as achieved with the proposed acceleration plate), will reduce the overall cost of operation (capital cost minus energy cost savings) and decrease the achievable payback resulting in a more overall cost effective system. The company and their university partner combine business and university expertise needed to evaluate and enhance the wind turbine design through modeling, simulation and experimental verification. These activities include computational fluid dynamics, prototype construction and testing in a wind tunnel.This wind harvester incorporates a novel acceleration plate to direct air flow over the turbine rotors to increase the air speed and enhance the performance of the wind turbine. This design is most appropriate for small vertical axis turbines.Development of a small cost effective wind turbine as a result of this research program will eventually have broad impact on society in the form of an inexpensive, clean source of renewable energy.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的研究项目旨在提高小型风力涡轮机的性能，即提高效率和千瓦时产量，通过先进的翼型设计（如拟议的加速板所实现的），将降低总体运营成本（资本成本减去能源成本节约），并降低可实现的回报，从而形成一个更整体的成本效益系统。该公司和他们的大学合作伙伴将商业和大学的专业知识结合起来，通过建模、仿真和实验验证来评估和增强风力涡轮机的设计。这些活动包括计算流体动力学、原型构建和风洞测试。这种风力收割机结合了一个新的加速板，以直接气流通过涡轮转子，以增加空气速度，提高风力涡轮机的性能。这种设计最适合小型垂直轴涡轮机。作为这项研究项目的成果，一种小型、经济高效的风力涡轮机的开发最终将以一种廉价、清洁的可再生能源的形式对社会产生广泛的影响。该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。