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Thermal Platform at HHIS 2022
2 June, 2022
What a great event! Lots of visitors learned at the Hamburg Innovation Summit (HHIS 2022) about direct wind to heat generation. We were happy to answer so many curious questions about windthermal energy.
Thanks to the team for your tireless efforts of organisation and directing large amount of visitors to our pilot plant. With Mark Bremer, Carlos Campos Fernández, Christoph Gentner, Jannik Okke Holtorf, Malte Neumeier, Jörg Piskurek and Sabine Winterfeld.
Windthermal Energy goes HHIS 2022
6 April, 2022
Save the Date! Have a look inside our pilot system at the Hamburg Innovation Summit (HHIS 2022)! Wind energy converted to heat....an innovative way of storing renewables. Our colleagues will answer all your questions!
When: 2 June, 2022
Where: Große Elbstraße 9, 22767 Hamburg (at the riverside in front of Fischauktionshalle)
Windthermal pilot plant finished
28 January, 2022
The windthermal pilot plant is finally completed. Today, the container with the thermal platform was successfully coupled to the wind turbine. The team eagerly awaited the arrival of the container. The challange is to align the container to the wind turbine's cardan-shaft. This requires very precise work! A loader crane placed the container accurately on the prepared foundation without any problem. Afterwards, the team attached the cardan shaft between retarder and wind turbine, and successfully commissioned the pilot plant.
Wind Turbine succesfully comissioned
26 January, 2021
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) now proudly owns its first windthermal turbine: it has a rated output of 15 kW, is about 20 m high, equipped with two anemometers and will be part of the project "Aerothermie". For this purpose, we removed the electric generator has been removed, and therefore, the wind turbine will initially operate in idle running. A special brake, a so-called hydrodynamic retarder, will replace the motor. The retarder will control the wind turbine and convert the torque into frictional heat. In addition, a mechanical heat pump will increase the overall system efficiency. This technology can supply heat to buildings such as greenhouses, paper mills, dairy farms or stables. Other possible applications are so called windthermal energy systems (WTES) with high-temperature heat storage and subsequent conversion to electricity.