Design Advantages
Employing kinetic art for sustainable change
The evolutionary design of the Skyron turbine has a number of advantages over traditional propeller-styled wind turbines, as well as traditional designs of Savonius, Darrieus, and H-Rotor turbines.
- Skyron’s product incorporates a blade design that takes advantage of both lift and drag forces. This permits utilizing the benefits offered by both horizontal and vertical axis technologies.
- Skyron’s vertical axis design, coupled with the helical twist, allows for true omni-directional wind capture and instantaneous response to changing wind directions, unlike propeller technology that must “hunt” for the wind. This helical twist also eliminates the rotational oscillations that occur with “straight blade” VAWT designs.
- Skyron’s turbine was designed to blend with the environment, whether that setting is a building or a remote site. In the commercial market, architectural firms have praised the design due to its ability to be incorporated into new building architecture or building retrofits. In the remote sector, the turbine design lends itself to be painted so as to blend with the landscape.
- At product maturity, Skyron’s turbine is projected to have a greater operational bandwidth than any propeller style turbine on the market today. This wider operational bandwidth allows for greater geographic siting opportunities in locations around the world. In other words, sites where traditional propeller-style turbines could not operate effectively due to either low or excessively high wind speeds, would be potential candidate installations for Skyron’s turbine.
- Skyron’s turbines are projected to be in operation 50% more often, throughout the entire operational bandwidth, than a propeller-style due to its omni-directional wind capture and wider operational bandwidth. This allows more time dedicated to active power generation or pumping operations.
- Skyron’s use of advanced composites translates into a stronger and lighter blade assembly.
- Skyron’s turbine systems have a positive impact on aviary wildlife. From real-world turbine installation tests, birds see the turbine as a solid object, thus flying around the unit. With traditional propeller wind turbines, birds and bats attempt to fly through the arc of the propeller and are killed by the ascending or descending blades.
- Skyron’s turbine design has a smaller installed footprint than many competing products, thus permitting a wider range of installations where space, height, and weight are at a premium (i.e. limited roof-top space associated with urban commercial building installations).