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What campus are you from?
Daytona Beach
Authors' Class Standing
Julian Goins, Senior
Lead Presenter's Name
Julian Goins
Faculty Mentor Name
N/A
Abstract
In the realm of Nautical vehicles, there is a rather rigid selection of propulsion methods. Aside from the occasional outliers, like rarely used coal steamboats, experimental solar powered ships, or the military grade nuclear vessels, the vast majority of ships run off diesel-powered engines. The unsustainability of such methods will need to be addressed for the security of our planet’s future, much like it is already in many other fields. To that end, this project gains inspiration from the past and looks toward harnessing the wind. In recent times, most sail boats are equipped with some variation of motorized propellers to allow travel even in the most disagreeable of winds; this project is suggesting a reversal of that dynamic and repurposing the “sail” to support the motor through the generation of electricity. Wind turbines, in their common form, would seem like a rather unruly replacement to the sail of a ship. However, this project acts under the belief that the incorporation of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), along with respectable power storage, would be the perfect evolution of the sail made for the modern day. Currently, naval wind power generation has surprisingly been relegated to novelty for conscientious hobbyists while the most prominent projects for wind-based propulsion on larger vessels choose to innovate upon the idea of the “wing sail”. This project is meant to bring to light a similar but simpler solution that can power not just the ship’s propulsion but all its internal systems.
Did this research project receive funding support from the Office of Undergraduate Research.
No
Evolving Wind Based Sea Travel with Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
In the realm of Nautical vehicles, there is a rather rigid selection of propulsion methods. Aside from the occasional outliers, like rarely used coal steamboats, experimental solar powered ships, or the military grade nuclear vessels, the vast majority of ships run off diesel-powered engines. The unsustainability of such methods will need to be addressed for the security of our planet’s future, much like it is already in many other fields. To that end, this project gains inspiration from the past and looks toward harnessing the wind. In recent times, most sail boats are equipped with some variation of motorized propellers to allow travel even in the most disagreeable of winds; this project is suggesting a reversal of that dynamic and repurposing the “sail” to support the motor through the generation of electricity. Wind turbines, in their common form, would seem like a rather unruly replacement to the sail of a ship. However, this project acts under the belief that the incorporation of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), along with respectable power storage, would be the perfect evolution of the sail made for the modern day. Currently, naval wind power generation has surprisingly been relegated to novelty for conscientious hobbyists while the most prominent projects for wind-based propulsion on larger vessels choose to innovate upon the idea of the “wing sail”. This project is meant to bring to light a similar but simpler solution that can power not just the ship’s propulsion but all its internal systems.