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Wind Power From Kites

Wind Power From Kites. Professor David J. Olinger Mechanical Engineering Dept. WPI WPI's Fifth US-Africa Business Conference. WPI KITE POWER TEAM. Professor David J. Olinger Dr. Jitendra Goela, Rohm and Haas Company, Woburn MA

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Wind Power From Kites

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  1. Wind Power From Kites Professor David J. Olinger Mechanical Engineering Dept. WPI WPI's Fifth US-Africa Business Conference

  2. WPI KITE POWER TEAM • Professor David J. Olinger • Dr. Jitendra Goela, Rohm and Haas Company, Woburn MA • Gabe Baldwin, Mike Blouin, Peter Bertoli, Ryan Buckley, Chris Colschen, Mike DeCuir, Max Hurgin, Ben Isabella, Taylor LaLonde, Erik Lovejoy, Josh Rodden, Mike Sangermano, Nick Simone, Nick Urko • 2006-2008

  3. Motivation & Goals • Increased access to electricity, water, power in developing nations must be provided in a sustainable way using renewable energy sources, such as wind power • Develop a new renewable energy technology: Wind Power from Kites • Build prototype capable of generating ~1KW

  4. Wind Power from Kites Prototype Converts up-and-down motion of kite into electricity that is stored in batteries

  5. Animation - System Operation Wind is from Left to Right Olinger, D.J. & Goela, J.S. , “Performance Characteristics of a one-kilowatt scale kite power system, ASME Paper ES2008-54032, Energy Sustainability 2008, Jacksonville, FL August 2008.

  6. Advantages of Kite Power for Developing Nations • Potentially cheaper than a wind turbine • More economical in low wind speed regions • Higher wind speeds at higher altitudes • Kites can fly “faster than the wind” – apparent velocity effect • More aesthetically pleasing & environmentally friendly than wind turbines

  7. Advantages for Developing Nations

  8. Field Testing WPI KITE POWER TEAM STUDENTS Heifer International’s Overlook Farm – Rutland, MA Seabrook, NH beaches

  9. Wiki – WPI Kite Power Team http://www2.me.wpi.edu/wpi-kites Link in agenda on conference website Other kite power researchers: WindLift, LLC http://windlift.wordpress.com/about/ Makani Power, Inc. www.makanipower.com Jet stream winds

  10. Conclusions • Wind Power from Kites is a potential renewable energy technology • WPI Kite Power Team has constructed a working kite power prototype Many successes! Still work to do! • Feedback : Potential use in Africa Educational/business linkages

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