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

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段研究项目旨在通过先进的翼型设计(如拟议的加速板所实现的)来提高小型风力涡轮机的性能，即提高效率和千瓦时产量，从而降低总体运营成本(资本成本减去能源成本节省)，并减少可实现的回报，从而产生更具整体成本效益的系统。该公司及其大学合作伙伴通过建模、模拟和实验验证，将评估和增强风力涡轮机设计所需的商业和大学专业知识结合在一起。这些活动包括计算流体力学、原型构建和风洞测试。该采风机采用了一种新型的加速板来引导气流通过涡轮机转子，以提高风速和增强风力涡轮机的性能。这一设计最适合小型垂直轴涡轮机。作为这一研究计划的结果，开发一种成本效益高的小型风力涡轮机最终将以廉价、清洁的可再生能源的形式对社会产生广泛影响。该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公共法律111-5)资助。

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).