Vertical Wind Turbine
The world is demanding environmentally-friendly energy and VBINE is rising to the challenge. With its Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) you can generate power virtually anywhere it is used. From urban high-rises to farms, from commercial towers to factories... green power is now a real possibility for any facility across the globe.
With blades spanning twelve feet in height and covering more than seven feet in diameter, the VAWT can generate power from prevailing winds. It's other advantages include a quick payback period; it also balances high-performance power generation and storage with low maintenance investment. Are you prepared to take the VBINE challenge?
This video shows one of our turbines going up on a rural property near Listowel Ontario. The tower is an 80 ft. ReDriven mono poll hydraulic tower with the 5 KW Vbine vertical axis wind turbine
Advantages
The VBINE ENERGY VAWT is the perfect choice for all small wind applications and offers many advantages:
Accessibility
With a light and compact design, the VBINE ENERGY VAWT mounts easily on to existing buildings enabling power generation wherever energy is used. It can support urban environments, farms, factories, high rises, communication towers... the possibilities are infinite.
Environmental Protection
The VBINE ENERGY VAWT reduces environmental impacts. Operating at full speed, it registers a quiet 66 decibels. Measuring just over 2 meters in width, wildlife interference is minimal.
Cost Efficiencies
The VBINE ENERGY VAWT takes much less time to achieve a Return on Investment than a conventional wind power system. In addition, using prevailing winds generates pure green power, freeing up other carbon credits.
High Performance
The VBINE ENERGY VAWT is suitable for grid tie-in or battery storage.
It self starts with only 1.2 meters per second and produces 5 kilowatts in peak winds. The vertical design allows the VAWT to take wind from any direction without having to turn to achieve a particular angle. With no drive shaft, it is possible to mount devices above the turbine because the top does not rotate.
Low Maintenance
The VBINE ENERGY VAWT is a permanent magnet generator with two long-life bearings. With no drive shaft, it does not need slip rings or brushes. Its sleek design prevents interference from wildlife.
The life span of the VBINE ENERGY VAWT is expected to be 30 years with very little maintenance.
Contact us and we’ll explore a customized way that green power generated by the VBINE ENERGY VAWT can support your operations.
Applications
Power where you need it
The VBINE Energy VAWT is ideal for installation anywhere:
- Communication towers, stand-alone and guy-wire towers
- Urban settings
- High-rise, office or apartment buildings
- Water towers
- Utility poles and light standards
- Farms
- Mine shaft ventilation systems
- Garbage burn off
- Steel mills
- Cement plant
- Pulp and paper mills
- Fertilizer plants
- Coal burning plants
- Foundries
- Oil refineries and gas burn-off stacks in oil fields
- Abandoned oil rigs and buoys
- hunting lodges
How it works
The VBINE Energy VAWT is a ring-shaped generator that can be retrofitted to encircle any cylinder. It rotates around the structure with the aid of wind-catching blades. The rotor blades are coupled with a wheel of current-inducing magnets that revolve around a stator with fixed wound coils. As the rotating magnets pass over the stationary coils, the magnetic field is constantly changing, thereby inducing an electrical current. The current is conducted through the coils and can be directly distributed for use or stored in a battery pack.
This video show the wind turbine in opperation. The blade design will not allow the blades to rotate faster than 150 RPM, so the turbine does not requre any kind of breaking system durring high winds.
