The apparatus includes a wind turbine system for the collection of wind energy and the conversion thereof through staged-compression into highly compressed gas. The highly compressed gas is routed to a central tank, and then expanded into a plurality of concentric ring tanks, each storing gas at successively lower pressures. The cooling resulting from this expansion is utilized to cool hot compressed gas from an intermediate line of gas compressors, increasing the efficiency of the following compressors. This absorption of heat also improves the efficiency of the gas turbines driving electrical generators. The gas compressor in each wind turbine is located near ground level, and driven by a vertical shaft passing through the wind turbine support tower. One embodiment has conventional radially extending blades, and another embodiment has ducted blades to withstand higher winds. Both ground mounted and deep water adaptions for the wind turbines are disclosed.

The wind turbine includes a wind driven turbine wheel rotatable about a central axis that has sail wings that catch the wind and rotate the turbine wheel. An anchor has its anchor line attached to the turbine wheel at its axis of rotation to prevent tilting the wind turbine in response to high wind conditions. A set of streamers attached to the spokes at one end and including a free end wherein the free end is disposed in a space defined between two adjacent spokes when the turbine wheel is rotating. A trolley removably and slidably attached to a main anchor line, a secondary anchor line attached to the trolley and a secondary anchor; and, a drop line removably attached to the secondary anchor configured to lower the anchor to the main anchor so that the trolley, secondary anchor line and secondary anchor is configured to provide an anchor support structure for the main anchor.

The invention relates to a wind power station (1) for energy generation with an axial-flow, rotating, vortex-generating wind concentrator (2) pivot-mounted on a shaft (3), covered by a ring-shaped outer jacket (4) which on its outside features flow channels distributed over 360 and which is equipped concentrator blades (7) in a circular arrangement between the shaft (3) and the ring-shaped outer jacket (4). To create favorable conditions, it is proposed to include sawtooth-shaped, curved edge-vortex-generating guide profiles (5) producing a downstream vortex coil across the entire cross-section of the ring-shaped outer jacket (4).

The invention relates to a improved wind turbine that is used for converting wind energy into electrical energy. The shape of the wind turbine is like a set of concentric circular rings. It has minimum three rings for fixing the blades. It has several strong blades. Each blade is 6 inches long, and 4 inches wide. Each blade is separated by 1 foot from other. All of the blades are fixed at an optimal angle between 100 degrees and 130 degrees. It has a hub for attaching to the input shaft of the generator. It is based on the principle of a windmill for converting wind energy into rotational energy, rotational energy to mechanical energy, and mechanical to electrical energy.

The apparatus includes a wind turbine system for the collection of wind energy and the conversion thereof through staged-compression into highly compressed gas. The highly compressed gas is routed to a central tank, and then expanded into a plurality of concentric ring tanks, each storing gas at successively lower pressures. The cooling resulting from this expansion is utilized to cool hot compressed gas from an intermediate line of gas compressors, increasing the efficiency of the following compressors. This absorption of heat also improves the efficiency of the gas turbines driving electrical generators. The gas compressor in each wind turbine is located near ground level, and driven by a vertical shaft passing through the wind turbine support tower. One embodiment has conventional radially extending blades, and another embodiment has ducted blades to withstand higher winds. Both ground mounted and deep water adaptions for the wind turbines are disclosed.

An impeller for wind turbines comprises a rear ring having a central axis. The impeller comprises a front ring having an inner peripheral surface. The front ring is arranged coaxially and is slidably associated with the rear ring. The front ring is movable along the central axis and switches between a close configuration and a spaced apart configuration, with respect to the rear ring. The impeller comprises a plurality of blades connected to the front ring and defining a variable-pitch propeller. The blades being adjustable between a minimum pitch when the front ring is in the close configuration and a maximum pitch when the front ring is in the spaced apart configuration.

Diffuser-augmented wind turbines can include a first diffuser ring arranged to form a turbine rotor cowling, the diffuser being fixed to and rotatable with the turbine rotor about the horizontal axis of the wind turbine. The first diffuser ring may have one or more dynamic, aero-elastic, vortex entrainment devices attached to a trailing edge of the diffuser. The first diffuser ring may include one or more slot gaps arranged within its body, each slot gap creating a channel between the interior and exterior surfaces of the first diffuser ring. In some embodiments the diffuser may optionally further include one or more further diffuser rings, the one or more further diffuser rings being static rings (e.g. non-rotatable about the horizontal axis) or dynamic diffuser rings (e.g. rotatable around the horizontal axis).

The present invention relates to the technical field of wind power generating equipment, in particular to a single-frame impeller of a wind turbine generator set. Influenced by the structure, materials and the like, a horizontal-shaft wind turbine generator set in the prior art has problems of low wind energy utilization rate, relatively high design requirements, relatively large volume and weight, difficulty in maintenance and repairing, likeliness in over-speed flying, and the like. The single-frame impeller of the wind turbine generator set includes a wind wheel frame, a blade adjusting device, a supporting base and oblique supporting rods, wherein the blade adjusting device and the supporting base are connected and assembled to the front end of a generator main shaft, the wind wheel frame and the supporting base are connected through the oblique supporting rods, and blades encircle the blade adjusting device and are assembled in the wind wheel frame through shafts; and the blade adjusting device is provided with a closed adjusting chamber, and a gear-type, a gear-rack-type or a connecting-rod-type combined adjusting mechanism is assembled in the adjusting chamber. The present invention changes a connecting way of the blades and increases the quantity of the blades, thereby increasing the wind energy utilization efficiency, increasing the overall output power, decreasing the failure rate and improving the safety, reliability and economical efficiency.

The application relates to unidirectional hydrokinetic turbines having an improved flow acceleration system that uses asymmetrical hydrofoil shapes on some or all of the key components of the turbine. These components that may be hydrofoil shaped include, e.g., the rotor blades (34), the center hub (36), the rotor blade shroud (38), the accelerator shroud (20), annular diffuser(s) (40), the wildlife and debris excluder (10, 18) and the tail rudder (60). The fabrication method designs various components to cooperate in optimizing the extraction of energy, while other components reduce or eliminate turbulence that could negatively affect other component(s).

An impeller for wind turbines comprises a rear ring having a central axis. The impeller comprises a front ring having an inner peripheral surface. The front ring is arranged coaxially and is slidably associated with the rear ring. The front ring is movable along the central axis and switches between a close configuration and a spaced apart configuration, with respect to the rear ring. The impeller comprises a plurality of blades connected to the front ring and defining a variable-pitch propeller. The blades being adjustable between a minimum pitch when the front ring is in the close configuration and a maximum pitch when the front ring is in the spaced apart configuration.