Technology - IMPLUXTM Wind Power Turbine

On-site Renewable Energy Generation for the Urban Built Environment

Principle

IMPLUXTM is an innovative solution for clean electricity generation on multi-storey buildings. Featuring an omni-directional shroud, IMPLUXTM captures, streamlines and accelerates wind into a central chamber where the sole moving component, an axial aerofoil rotor generates electricity.
 
The non-moving shroud continuously captures wind from any direction and minimises wind leakage by the creation of a "fluid dynamic gate" within the chamber. The wind is focused and accelerated by fixed toroidal blades, allowing the proven and efficient aerofoil rotor mounted in a vertical axis configuration to be used to convert the wind energy into mechanical energy. This ultimately enables higher annual energy production and greater deployment in the typical built environment where the winds are turbulent and constantly changing directions.   

The new invention is capable of generating electrical power equal to or higher than standard horizontal wind turbines of the same rotor size but with the benefits of safety, reduced noise and reduced maintenance.

Market

Renewable power generation at point-of-use in built environments has significant potential for low carbon urbanisation globally, yet is underutilised. Of the two available clean resources in the urban built environment, solar and wind, most technological progress and deployment has been limited to solar energy. Existing wind power devices are limited in their ability to efficiently utilise dynamic urban winds and do not satisfy the safety, noise and aesthetic compatibility requirements expected of devices for highly populated city environments.

KATRU's IMPLUXTM technology provides an efficient, safe, quiet and aesthetically compatible solution. Following extensive scale testing, optimisation and international expert validation IMPLUXTM has reached the pre-production stage, and the concept unit is ready for retrofitting to existing buildings or for incorporation into new sustainable building projects.

Major Features
  • High Efficiency: omni-directional wind turbine that captures, streamlines and accelerates low speed, disturbed and turbulent urban wind patterns to efficiently extract energy.
  • Safety: enclosure of the moving rotor within the shroud removes risk to all in highly populated areas.
  • Visual: aesthetically compatible in the urban built environment.
  • Low Maintenance: single moving component with no gyroscopic force issues, reducing likelihood of fatigue breakdown.
  • Low Noise: minimal noise above ambient.
By its design, IMPLUXTM overcomes many of the limitations associated with conventional wind power devices currently being adapted for deployment in the urban built environment.

       
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