Vertical Axis Wind Turbine.doc

Vertical Axis Wind Turbine(VAWT) MUCE VAWT with Seven years experience in the production, the biggest power of 360KW The new type of Vertical Axis Wind-Power Turbine ( VAWT ) ??????????????????????????????????? ? ?? In the 90’ of the 20th, there was only one type of wind-power turbine, the Horizontal Axis Wind-Power turbine ( HAWT ). It has been used to supply the power for the telecommunication stations, the border posts, the inlands and for the countryside etc.. ?? Later on, many shortcomings were found from the HAWT, such as easily to be damaged, big noise and disturbance to the nearby electrical equipments etc.. In such case, we realized that we should find some new type of wind-power turbine instead of the HAWT. ?? In order to manufacture the better wind-power turbine, in 2001, co-operated with some famous experts for the first class universities, we, Shanghai MUCE Electric Equipment Co., Ltd. ( MUCE ) started the research work on the Vertical Axis Wind-Power Turbine ( VAWT ). In a period of shorter than one year, we completed the research work and made one sample equipment which passed all the technical tests and finally got the confirmation from our clients including the army. Till now we have supplied more than 60 sets of VAWT to our customers domestically and internationally. The design principle of the new VAWT Here we are going to make some detail introduction on the design principle of the new VAWT to meet the needs of our clients. At the very beginning, the VAWT was of the arc shape of two blades called ф type VAWT. Its area facing the wind is quite small, hence bigger wind power will be needed for starting the turbine. So finally no one was interested in such turbine. We once also tried to make this kind of turbine, but the result was not satisfactory. Some people may ask why at the very beginning no one tried to design the H type VAWT, but фtype. The answer is so simple that a large amount of calculation work was needed for the H type VAWT which