Fennec Turbine

Maxim Kuzin, ATOM

The Fennec Turbine is a state of the art technology compact wind turbine with low noise, high safety, and long use. The heart of the technology is a unique hyperboloidal rotor which provides the lowest noise and vibrations. From the art point of view, this is the new dimension for well-known works with hyperboloidal shells of famous Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov (1853 – 1939). The project moves his works from the static to dynamics. The Fennec Turbine is on the cutting edge between architecture and machines.

A lot of work was done to find the perfect form for low kinetic impact and low noise rotor whose productivity will be comparable to the modern wind turbine. Also, after the basic solution was found, much more work was done in the field of aerodynamical optimization to discover and determine the exact values of the parameters and reach the efficiency of the whole system, from mechanical power of wind stream to battery bank, of 17%, which is not far off the 22% efficiency of best huge wind turbines produced by Siemens and GE. And the Fennec project is just getting started, so there are a lot of improvements planned.

Fennec Turbine/Maxim Kuzin (RU), Credit: Maxim Kuzin

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