EOS TURBOWIND

WPE Research & Development is a start-up company established for the development, production and
commercialization of innovative products and technologies. Much attention has been given to the European
initiatives aimed at the energetic transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources.

The company has met this challenge by using its expertise in the implementation of Project EOS. Several studies have demonstrated that today the heating and cooling of the buildings represent 40% of the total energy consumption. The modern building techniques prefer the use of heat pumps as an alternative to the traditional methods for heating/cooling. This will highly increase the use of electric energy in the upcoming decade.
The " Clean energy for all Europeans package" and the diffusion of the directive on the renewable sources
allow the citizens to form their energy communities more easily, but also to produce, storage and sell their
own renewable energy (https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/focus-renewable-energy-europe-2020-mar-18_it).
By realizing a wind microturbine optimized for urban environments in the presence of strong turbulences in
the aerodynamic flows (Turbowind), Project EOS stands in this production strategy of decentralized energy,
where every urban centre should be able to produce a significant percentage of its own energetic need on
site, by the simultaneous use of several renewable energy sources.

Turbowind consists of a hybrid wind microturbine with a vertical axis with independent axes, a double electric generation system and an intelligent control system of the MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking), properly developed to guarantee the maximum performance of the turbine in very difficult environmental conditions, such as the urban ones.

Moreover, Project EOS provides the collection of the data and, by their analysis, the possibility to
reprogramme the algorithm MPPT also from remote in order to better adjust the machine to the
environment where it is positioned. The presence of a controller will ensure the dialogue also with the rest
of the infrastructures in the building for a better management of the use of the energy produced. Finally,
being the machine networked, Turbowind can be equipped with special sensors for the detection of the
polluting elements in the air, thus obtaining a monitoring network for the local environment.

Since the start of Project EOS, WPE has been creating in its territory an exchange network with the industrial and academic world to increase its capacity for scientific research, to synergize with well-established situations for the use of the existing know-how, therefore increasing the success rate of the project, with an interdisciplinary approach of the work team. The physical, mechanical, electric and electronic variables at stake for the development of an urban micro-wind machine are very complex and not known in theoretical terms. The mathematical models applied in the wind sector (HAT Horizontal rotor) cannot be scaled in this research sector.