New Trends in Application of Wind Turbines and Towers

These days one of the strikingly important point concerning the wind turbines if the height factor of the tower. Mostly people prefer the higher height in placing the turbine over the towers, Sometimes reaching up to 65 meters. Generally a trend in favour of tall towers is observed.

Fierce completion among players.

A tendency is seem among the European a companies thes e days to outdo each other in the height of towers. Some of the leading manufacturers in this sector are Bonus, Vestas, WindWorld, Nedwind, Tacke, Nordex, Carter as well as Nordtank with the effective height touching at 50 meters. Vestas a leading player in this field has made towers as high as 53 meters. Another company-Nordtank has embarked on 63 meters mark. In region near San Gorgonio pass of California wind turbine towers standing at height of 49 meters are a common scene.

The height factor effect

For Germany and densely forested areas of Europe, 60 meters height is suggested by the experts. While tall towers are not recommended for the areas inside North American continent. However Non Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has recorded an increase in performance to tune of 50 per cent when tall towers are installed.

The advantage factor of tall towers

The typical height of the towers is in range of 27 to 55 meters across different places. The height factor is much influenced by the wind flow pattern in general and wind height from ground level in particular. Regions with higher wind flow level needs high level of towers, while in other regions an average height towers is fairly OK for practical purposes. Enhancement in the turbine performance up to 45 % is found on doubling the tower height. Minnesota state of USA has pioneered in a project work concerning studies to test the ideal height levels for different height levels of tower. Fund raising is reportedly underway to evaluate the performance levels in relation to anemometry trials






Average height towers for Britain

In Britain strong winds blow as high as 40 meters, therefore very high towers are not suggested by the experts for this region of Europe. The government in Wales in working upon a plan to bring down the towers height keeping in view the inconvenience to the public due to various reasons.

Performance at the cost of aesthetic value

Many experts working in the sphere of wind power argue that one of the deleterious effect of the wind turbines is the disruption of the natural landscape of a place. As a measure to prevent the incidence of the collision mishap of aircrafts with the towers, towers are marked in bold colours. However this method mars the aesthetic sense of the spot at horizon besides spoiling the landscape beauty. Prudent balance needs to be set between the performance enhancement and natural landscape considerations

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