ADES innovations at Navarra Factori
March 29, 2011
Yesterday, the Navarre regional government presented Navarra Factori, a work space aimed at the development of creative potential and open innovation for established and new businesses, students and society in general and located in the installations of the public company CEIN (The Navarre European Centre for Businesses and Innovation). The Navarre Government Councillor for Innovation, Business and Employment, Jose Maria Roig, presided the ceremony, accompanied by Carmen Leza, the Managing Director of CEIN.
Within the area of creativity, ADES presented its innovative wind turbine in the Demolab. The Demolab is an activity that allows interaction between businesses, the market and society, where users can see, try, handle and test new innovative products both by external companies and produced as part of the activities of the Navarra Factori. Among its functions is that of serving as a promotional platform for the launch of new products.
The ADES pendular wind turbine is an important innovation in the wind power sector, since it compensates, accumulates and restores the variations caused by gusts of wind using three passive mechanical systems that also attenuate power peaks and structural overloads.
To design its wind turbines, ADES has adopted mechanical solutions. The use of three degrees of passive mechanical freedom allows the turbine to respond to changes in the strength or direction of the wind by changing its position to adapt to the new conditions, thus avoiding stresses. The three degrees of freedom are: the rotor, the design concept of which makes it the first gust damping system; the pendular power train, which balances the motor torque, and the self-steering nacelle, which avoids the need to install position brakes. This leads to less fatigue-prone turbines, with easier maintenance and longer life spans, and that are more tolerant of the network. The reduced weight on the footings (50 kg/kW, half the weight of a conventional turbine) also implies a cost reduction, as well as reduced access infrastructures, the use of smaller cranes for installation and reduced transport and installation costs.
The new turbine is the ideal device for isolated generation, intelligent micro-networks, installations that require constant energy supplies (pumping into pools, desalination, etc), auxiliary power for motors, to reduce their consumption, areas with changeable winds, conversion of wind farms, taking advantage of their existing infrastructure, and, of course, new wind farms.
Some articles referring to this:
http://www.navarrafactori.cein.es/?Z=9b31237d25acb886&t=&f=&idr=10
http://www.navarrafactori.cein.es/?Z=9b31237d25acb886&t=&f=&idr=1
