Research and Development of New Technology Wind Turbines Active in Desertification Prevention and Desert Tree Planting

这项研究是为了开发可以在世界干旱地区驱动的风力涡轮机和风力发电系统而开始的。许多研究成果与萨沃纽斯风力机和直线翼垂直轴风力机的数值模拟有关。由于风洞实验设施的设计和建造以及新技术的风力发电机组需要时间，许多实验研究成果尚未得到很好的实现。研究成果可分为以下几类：1。直接研究：萨沃纽斯风力机和垂直轴风力机的数值求和；风洞实验。相关研究：(1)沙漠研究；(2)风电研究：风力调查；风力涡轮机部件工程。所研制的风洞可产生三种脉动风，具有风力机研究风洞所少有的特点。因为科学研究补助金是为了促进大学和社会的合作而提供的补助金，所以很多人来到鸟取大学参观风洞。参观者包括与产业界、学术界和政府合作有关的人士，希望与鸟取大学进行联合研究的人士，以及打算将风力发电产业化的地方政府人士。此外，为了促进产学研合作，进行了许多联合研究，鸟取县、NEDO、一家公司等赞助的研究也得到了积极的开展。幸运的是，这项研究被接管到鸟取大学“干旱土地科学计划”的自然能源利用小组。该项目于2002年被国家教育、文化、体育、科学技术部确定为21世纪COE项目。

This research was started for the purpose of developing wind turbines and wind power generation systems which can be driven atarid lands in the world. Many of the research achievements were related to the numerical simulations of a Savonius wind turbine and a straight line wings perpendicular axis wind turbine. Many research achievements on experiments haven't been achieved well because time was needed for a design and construction of a wind tunnel experimental facility and new technology wind turbines.The research achievements can be classified as follows.1. Direct research : numerical summations of a Savonius wind turbine and a perpendicular axis wind turbine ; wind tunnel experiments.2. Related research : (1) research on desert ; (2) research on wind power : wind investigation ; component engineering of a wind turbine.The wind tunnel developed, which can generate three kinds of fluctuating winds, has the characteristic rare in the world as a wind tunnel for wind turbine research. Since tins grant-in-aid for scientific research was a subsidy for promoting collaboration of university and society, many people who visited Tottori University were provided with the opportunity to inspect the wind tunnel. The visitors includes people who are related to industry, academia and government cooperation, people who desire a joint research with Tottori University, and people of a local government which is going to industrialize wind power. Furthermore, many joint researches were conducted in order to promote the industy-university cooperation, and the sponsored researches from Tottori Prefecture, NEDO, a company, etc. were also conducted positively. Fortunately, this research is taken over to the group of the utilization of natural energy of the "Program for Arid Land Science" of Tottori University. That program was adopted as the 21st century COE program of the Ministry of Education, Culture Sports, Science and Technology in 2002.