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Financing authority: Executive Unit
for Funding the Higher Education System, Research, Development and
Innovation (UEFISCDI)
Project title: Electrothermal system based
on solar and wind energies
Project acronym: WINDSOL
Project code: PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0164
Contract number: 68BG/2016
Project duration: 01.10.2016 - 31.03.2018 (18 months)
Total contract value: 455.000 lei
Project short description:
The WINDSOL research project carried out by a partnership between University Politehnica of Bucharest
and SC AEOLUS Energy International SRL proposes the development of an innovative system that converts the wind and solar energies simultaneously in electricity and heat. The energy conversion is ensured by means of an Electro-Thermal Wind Generator (ETWG), and by means of a Photo-Voltaic-Thermal (PVT) system
equipped with mirrors to concentrate the solar radiation.
In comparison with
classical hybrid systems that consist of
simple wind turbines and PV panels, the proposed Hybrid Wind-Photo-Voltaic-Thermal
(HWPVT) system has
important advantages such
as: higher efficiency, smaller size and reduced specific costs.
The HWPVT system can be coupled
with other systems based on renewable energies such as heat pumps, solar collectors etc.
The parallel operation
of the two components of the system (ETWG and PVT) allows an increased energy stability during all the year since
in many geographical areas the wind
and solar potential
compensate each other naturally (strong winds in the winter, high solar radiation in the summer). The two components of the system can operate also independently.
The final outcome of the WINDSOL project consists in the development of an experimental laboratory
model of the innovative
HWPVT system, having a
total rated power of 3
kW. The implementation of this
project will allow the transfer of knowledge as result of the research activities towards AEOLUS partner interested in developing innovative products in renewable energies domain.
The research results
will be disseminated by means of at least 3 ISI articles/papers, and the innovative
elements will be protected from intellectual property point of view by at least 2 patent demands.
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