Conceptual design of a next-generation wind turbine

Project Member(s): Ji, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: M Investment Ltd (M Investment)

Start year: 2016

Summary: Ambitious worldwide renewable energy targets are pushing wind energy to become one of mainstream power sources. The strong growth of the wind technology market, underpinned by policy goals around the world, has led to the rapid development of higher and larger capacity wind turbines. As the weight and height of turbines increase, the materials costs of wider, stronger support towers, as well as the cost of maintaining components housed so far from the ground, are cutting into the efficiency benefits of larger turbines. This project aims to develop a different type of wind turbine: a bladeless wind turbine by converting the vibrating kinetic energy into electricity through a linear generator. The anticipated outcomes will provide a conceptual design of a new wind turbine with high conversion efficiency in a wide range of oscillating frequencies, and significant reduction in noise generated. The designed wind turbine is expected to have an optimised energy production with significant reductions in manufacturing and maintenance costs.

Publications:

Jingyang, Z, Jinchen, J, Shan, Y & Van Canh, T 1970, 'The Load Distribution of the Main Shaft Bearing Considering Combined Load and Misalignment in a Floating Direct-Drive Wind Turbine', E3S Web of Conferences, International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy, EDP Sciences, Berlin, Germany, pp. 07009-07009.
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Ji, JC & Brown, T 2017, 'Periodic and Chaotic Motion of a Time-Delayed Nonlinear System Under Two Coexisting Families of Additive Resonances', International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 27, no. 05, pp. 1750066-1750066.
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Ji, JC & Zhou, J 2017, 'Coexistence of two families of sub-harmonic resonances in a time-delayed nonlinear system at different forcing frequencies', Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 93, pp. 151-163.
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Cheng, S, Yu, L, Zhang, D, Huo, L & Ji, J 2016, 'Consensus of second-order multi-agent systems using partial agents' velocity measurements', NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 1927-1935.
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Liu, J, Ji, J & Zhou, J 2016, 'Synchronization of networked multibody systems using fundamental equation of mechanics', APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS-ENGLISH EDITION, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 555-572.
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Zhao, L, Ji, J, Liu, J, Wu, Q & Zhou, J 2016, 'Tracking task-space synchronization of networked Lagrangian systems with switching topology', NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 1673-1685.
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Zhao, M & Ji, J 2016, 'Dynamic Analysis of Wind Turbine Gearbox Components', ENERGIES, vol. 9, no. 2.
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Keywords: wind turbines, bladelss design

FOR Codes: Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Wind Energy, Dynamics, vibration and vibration control

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.