TAOS Wind Energy is a private R&D company. It works at creating beau ideal. The starting point of company is the research of TAOS WIND ENERGY HOUSE (TAOSHO) in 1984.
TAOS Wind Energy successfully developed new type wind machine of downwind passive yawing which discards the tail van and any mechanical protection set to make structure compacter and more reliable, and the ability to "catch" wind higher owing the lower yawing inertia. We are confident that the downwind passive yawing design would be a higher level for small wind turbine.
Downwind passive yawing !
New design idea! New generation small wind turbine!
Footprint from 1984 to 2000
From 1984 to 2000, Taos Wind Energy developed many types of small wind turbine, such as varied pitch, furled rotor, and tilting-up rotor, and succeeded in Chinese and worldwide marketing. click to see(PDF) |
Lessons from 1984 to 2000
1.Various mechanical protections are also potential failure factors themselves to make turbine being lack of safety and reliability.
2. In physics, the stablest position of an object in gravity field is the lowest position where the potential energy is lowest. Likewise, the downwind position is the stablest position of a wind rotor in wind field. The unstable up-wind position of wind rotor is supported by tail van. And the higher the wind speed, the more severe the load on tail van; the more severe the flutter of tail van. The tail van is a cause of failure and noise.
Various mechanical protection is also a potential failure factor itself
Tail van, suffered from severe load, is a cause of failure and noise
The simpler structure, the more reliable small wind turbine
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Innovation from 2006
Based on experience over 20 years,we now create a passive yawing downwind structure design which discards the tail van and any mechanical protection set. The wind turbine has only two pairs of parts with relative rotation to make structure more compact and more reliable, and the ability to "catch" wind is higher much owing the lower yawing inertia. We are confident that the passive yawing downwind structure means the new high of development of small wind turbine.
Passive yawing downwind structure design! New generation small wind turbine!
More compact, more sensible, more reliable! |
Southwest Windpower www.windenergy.com is an advanced company with strong and enterprising team which announced its newest product of downwind passive yawing, Skystream3.7, in 2006 and has been awarded a 2006 Best of What’s New Award from Popular Science in the Home category. |
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