This paper provides a summary of the work done at DPA on numerical and experimental investigations of a novel patented vertical axis and variable pitching blades hydro turbine designed to harness energy from marine tidal currents. Ponte di Archimede S.p.A. Company, located in Messina, Italy, owns the patented KOBOLD turbine that is moored in the Messina Strait, between the mainland and Sicily. The turbine has a rotor with a diameter of 6 meters, three vertical blades of 5 meters span with a 0.4 m chord ad hoc designed curved airfoil, producing high lift with no cavitation. The rated power is 160 kW with 3.5 m/s current speed, which means 25% global system efficiency. The VAWT and VAWT_DYN computer codes, based on Double Multiple Steamtube, have been developed to predict the steady and dynamic performances of a cycloturbine with fixed or self-acting variable pitch straight-blades. A theoretical analysis and a numerical prediction of the turbine performances as well as experimental test results on both a model and the real scale turbine will be presented and discussed.

Dynamic Behavior of a Patented KOBOLD Tidal Current Turbine: Numerical and Experimental Aspects / Coiro, Domenico; Nicolosi, Fabrizio; DE MARCO, Agostino; S., Melone; F., Montella. - In: ACTA POLYTECHNICA. - ISSN 1210-2709. - STAMPA. - Vol. 45:No. 3/2005(2005), pp. 77-84.

Dynamic Behavior of a Patented KOBOLD Tidal Current Turbine: Numerical and Experimental Aspects

COIRO, DOMENICO;NICOLOSI, FABRIZIO;DE MARCO, AGOSTINO;
2005

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This paper provides a summary of the work done at DPA on numerical and experimental investigations of a novel patented vertical axis and variable pitching blades hydro turbine designed to harness energy from marine tidal currents. Ponte di Archimede S.p.A. Company, located in Messina, Italy, owns the patented KOBOLD turbine that is moored in the Messina Strait, between the mainland and Sicily. The turbine has a rotor with a diameter of 6 meters, three vertical blades of 5 meters span with a 0.4 m chord ad hoc designed curved airfoil, producing high lift with no cavitation. The rated power is 160 kW with 3.5 m/s current speed, which means 25% global system efficiency. The VAWT and VAWT_DYN computer codes, based on Double Multiple Steamtube, have been developed to predict the steady and dynamic performances of a cycloturbine with fixed or self-acting variable pitch straight-blades. A theoretical analysis and a numerical prediction of the turbine performances as well as experimental test results on both a model and the real scale turbine will be presented and discussed.
2005
Dynamic Behavior of a Patented KOBOLD Tidal Current Turbine: Numerical and Experimental Aspects / Coiro, Domenico; Nicolosi, Fabrizio; DE MARCO, Agostino; S., Melone; F., Montella. - In: ACTA POLYTECHNICA. - ISSN 1210-2709. - STAMPA. - Vol. 45:No. 3/2005(2005), pp. 77-84.
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