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Capture Mobility aims to be one of the leading companies in

developing innovative renewable energy products. The
technology start-up developed a hybrid micro roadside wind
Shell - Capture turbine designed to, not only generate electricity from the
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Mobility turbulence of passing traffic, but also to filter particulates from
the atmosphere, helping reduce air pollution. The turbine is
topped with solar panels that add to the power generated by
the system.

ENLİL is a smart vertical axis wind turbine project that

transforms highways into renewable energy sources by using
the dynamics of the city.
It also provides comfort and safety to the city thanks to the
build-in sensors and an intelligent platform. By placing the
hybrid vertical axis wind turbine (including a solar panel on top
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of it) on highways, ‘’Metrobus-lines’’ and other transportation
lines as well as high-rise residences , ENLIL will generate
energy by using the winds created by the vehicles aswell as
the natural winds.
It will also measure the city’s temperature, humidity, wind and
CO2 by using the the build-in sensors and the IOT platform.

Our turbines are attached to existing lighting columns close to

roads, where they can harvest the massive untapped energy
produced by moving vehicles.
Think about the last time a car or truck rushed past you –
we’re collecting that airflow.
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Cars and trucks are going to be with us for a long time to
come, so let’s make them work for the environment and for
local communities.
Local energy production serves local demand and lowers
transmission costs, which reduces costs for the end customer.

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Feasibility of Highway Energy

1 Harvesting Using a Vertical
Axis Wind Turbine

Building a low cost wind

2 turbine in highways for rural
house electricity demand

A Novel Vertical Axis Wind

3 Turbine for Energy Harvesting
on the Highways

Harvesting energy from

moving vehicles with single-
4
axis solar tracking assisted
hybrid wind turbine
 Monitoring of highway wind
power parameter and
5
controlling highway light
through IOT

Potentiality of small wind

6 turbines along highway in
Malaysia

7 Highway windmill

Evaluation of Darrieus wind

8 turbine for different highway
settings using CFD simulation
 A study on the rotational
behaviour of a Savonius Wind
9
turbine in low rise highways
during different monsoons

Modified Savonius wind

turbine for harvesting wind
10
energy from trains moving in
tunnels

Performance Analysis of
Highway Wind Turbine
11 Enhanced with Wind Guide
Vanes Using the Taguchi
Method
Resumen

In countries where wind energy is less feasible, an energy harvesting device such as highway wind turbines can
still be used for applications where less power is needed. This energy can be harvested using vertical axis wind
turbines (VAWT) placed on the sides of the highways to make use of the vehicles moving in both directions.
This work presents an experimental study of using a three-bladed helical VAWT specially designed and
manufactured for producing electrical energy from wind energy of moving cars on highways for lighting purposes
such as the highway lights, traffic signals, and light guide lines. The wind speed of vehicles passing on a highway
and wind power from the VAWT is measured at a number of anemometer heights on the highway sides.
Results show that the VAWT prototype has produced up to 48-Watts of power from vehicles moving on the
highway, which produce an average wind speed of 4.4 m/s. The wind turbine power curve is produced from the
measured data and based on the best fit to the power curve, the efficiency of 34.6 percent is obtained, which is
promising for further development of the work in commercial scale.

The main aim of this work is to design, fabricate, and test a wind turbine for power generation applications in rural
areas. Vertical Axis Wind Turbines were selected to harness the energy from wind through the drag forces induced
due to vehicular movements. Various parameters were analyzed for the design of a low-cost wind turbine.
A Savonius blade was selected for the design, which could be accommodated on the median of the highways. By
using recycled materials, a low-cost wind turbine was fabricated at a cost of $117.5 approximately. The wind
turbine was placed on the houses and on the highway medians to test the power output at various operating
conditions.
Average electricity consumption at selected rural houses were calculated. The calculated average electricity
demand during power cuts in the selected rural houses was around 0.2–0.6 kWh/day. Average generated
electricity from the turbine at highways was observed to be around 0.67 kWh/day. The Levelized cost of electricity
(LCOE) of the generated electricity from the proposed SWT on highways is around $0.04/kWh.
The LCOE of the proposed design is relatively cheaper when compared with the conventional horizontal axis wind
turbines. The energy demand during power cuts was met completely when the SWT was placed on the highways.

This paper highlights a VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine) cascaded along the highway that makes use of the
turbulent wind gusts created by fast moving vehicles on the highway and later converting the same into useful
electrical energy. The performance of the developed system is tested for both indoor and outdoor conditions. The
design of the turbine proves to have a very low tip speed ratio along with a low starting torque. The system is also
efficient and accurate as it is able to generate power with low speeds of wind as compared to the various other
techniques highlighted in the literature.

Renewable energy is a reliable and practical option for generating electricity and is considered one of the key
ways to reduce environmental impact. There have been concentrated efforts devoted to next-generation
technology to enhance performance, reliability and future growth of wind energy. However, there is always been
concern about wide and bulky horizontal axes of wind turbines. Recent developments in wind turbine technology,
particularly in the case of vertical axis wind turbines have shown that they are more adaptable to utility-scale
power plants. As the energy generates from wind flow in both directions, we used this concept to model a novel
hybrid wind turbine to demonstrate energy harvesting viability in a controlled way entirely from the moving vehicles
on highways, with a three-bladed wind turbine and a solar tracking system. The hybrid wind turbine provided more
energy and better efficiency in comparison to traditional wind turbines on the highways.
In the proposed work the wind turbines is designed to produce wind energy from the highway due to rapid move of
vehicles. The fast growing source of energies are wind and solar. In this we are using the wind energy as it is
freely available everywhere. Due to the movement of vehicles, the wind energy is enormously produced on the
highways which are unused. So, we can make use of this energy to produce power and to overcome some
problems of electricity. Now, we can place the windmill or wind turbines at the mid of the highway, because it can
generate the energy when the vehicles move on the both sides. The generated power is used for nearby
streetlights. All this parameters are controlled and monitored through IOT from the base station.

Vehicle-induced turbulent airflow by the traffic in the highways is one of the sources of wind energy which can be
harvested to supply the power to the highway lighting and telecommunication signaling. This work focuses on the
assessment of potentiality of implementing small scale wind turbines along the highways in Malaysia. The study
was started by conducting wind speed measurements adjacent to the highway at Lebuh SPA (Sungai Udang -
Paya Rumput - Ayer Keroh Highway), a major highway in Malacca state, Malaysia. Three positional parameters
have been investigated for suitable placement of the wind turbines. They are: the lateral distances from the road
shoulder, the heights from the ground, and the orientation of the wind turbines relatives to the road. The former
two parameters were set at 0.5 m, 1.0 m and 1.5 m for each position; while the latter was varied at perpendicular,
45°, and parallel to the road. The measurements were conducted using hot-wire anemometers. The results
showed that the optimum positions for the wind turbine is at 1.0 m from the lateral distance and the height above
the ground, respectively, and the optimum orientation is found to be 45° from the road at which the horizontal axis
wind turbines (HAWT) can be directed. The large size vehicles such as lorries and busses were observed to
produce higher wind speed as compared to the smaller ones. The results were further verified by using numerical
simulation work through ANSYS Fluent.

Vehicles moving in a highway suffer a lot to drive the vehicle during night time due to lighting problem. It is not
possible task to lay electric cables underground and provide lighting throughout the length of the roads. In this
paper, the drawback can be overcome by make use of VAWT (Vertical Axis Wind Turbine). The VAWT is coupled
with disc type alternator is placed on the highway road dividers. As the wind is forced by passing vehicles from
both sides, the wind speed on the centre place of highway roads will be more than at the pedestrian walking lane.
This wind is forced to the VAWT from two directions heavily but this VAWT makes use of both the wind directions
and rotates in one direction only. If the speed of the turbine increases results in increasing the speed of the
alternator and the corresponding increased power is obtained at the output terminal. This power can be stored in
battery bank which is placed under the windmill and utilized at night time for lighting purpose on the highway.

The feasibility of extracting energy from the wake of moving vehicles on highways could be considered as a
significant topic among researchers. Wind turbines can harvest this energy, which is often unused, from moving
vehicles in an urban context. The aim of this research is to investigate a straight three-bladed Darrieus wind
turbine performance on highways using CFD method. The study is validated against experimental data. Moreover,
SST turbulence model has been used to simulate the turbulence flow regime. In order to evaluate the performance
of Darrieus in various traffic scenarios on highways, three different cases are conducted. First, one vehicle on a
one-way lane highway is modeled. In the second case, two adverse vehicles on a two-way lane highway are
modeled and in the third case, two vehicles on a one-way lane highway are simulated. The third Case
demonstrates a more realistic situation comparing to the first one and the highest value of the power coefficient is
belongs to the third case. For case3 maximum value of the power coefficient when it is normalized by what is
0.007706 and the corresponding power produced by the rotor is 159.310 W while these values are 0.004767, and
98.558 for the first case.
This work describes the behaviour of a vertical axis Savonius Wind Turbine (SWT) in Four-way lane highways
during South-West and North-East monsoons. A vertical axis SWT was designed and fabricated using low-cost
materials. Starting behaviour of the SWT was studied by measuring and calculating the starting torque coefficient.
The proposed SWT's cut-in speed was achieved at a velocity of 3.5 m/s. Experiments were carried out on a four-
way lane highway through the placement of turbine at two different positions (middle and sides of the highway).
Also, the experiments were repeated during different monsoons to understand the behaviour under different wind
directions. Error analysis was performed on the data obtained by considering possible measurement errors and
instrument accuracies. The obtained experimental data clearly illustrates that the SWT's nominal rotational speed
varies at different monsoons, when located at the sides of the road. From the data analysis, it can be understood
that the wind directions play a key role for harnessing maximum amount of energy in highway wind-energy
generation. Maximum augmented rotational speed of around 64% was achieved by placing the SWT at the median
of Four-way lane highways in different monsoons.

This study is focused on harvesting wind energy from gust produced by trains, that are moving inside tunnels by
placing Savonius rotors alongside the trains. Numerical simulation shows that the conventional S shaped Savonius
rotor fails to harvest energy under such conditions and hence a new design is proposed to generate useful power
without compromising the efficiency of the moving trains. The new turbine design is evaluated to optimize its
parameters such as diameter and location with respect to train, considering SMRT's (Singapore Mass Rapid
Transit) circle line in Singapore. This unconventional energy production can be a viable energy solution to provide
power to electronic components and tunnel lighting.

Considerable efforts have been made by researchers to study the interaction between moving vehicles and wind
turbines. The Savonius vertical-axis wind turbine was chosen due to its effectiveness in low-wind speed
conditions. Speeding vehicles produce a scattered and non-uniform wind flow with disturbances. Hence, to prevent
a negative torque, a row of wind guide vane panels was arranged in front of the blades of a wind turbine. The wind
guide vane had the shape of an NACA4412 aerofoil to reduce the loss of wind energy, and to further increase
wind velocity. A number of CFD simulations were designed using the Taguchi method to determine the optimum
conditions for the power coefficient of the wind turbine in terms of the effects of three factors, namely, the distance
between the guide vanes (d), the angle of the guide vanes (?), and the speed of the moving car (VC). An
orthogonal array of L9(33) was designed. In addition, to observe the effects of the wind velocity induced by the
moving vehicle, the wind turbine was incorporated with one degree of freedom (1DOF). The results showed that
the speed of the moving car played a major role in determining the power coefficient. The order of influence of
each factor was ranked as VC > ? > d. The performance of the wind turbine was sensitive to the speed of the car
and the angle of the guide vanes, whereas it was insensitive to the distance between the guide vanes.
Furthermore, the analysis of the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio suggested that the optimal combination of factors for a
maximum power coefficient were d = 0.4m, ? = 30°, and VC =30m/s. The optimum setting increased the Cp to
26% compared to the Cp that was produced without the installation of the guide vanes.
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Año prioridad Resumen

A traffic wind turbine and ventilation unit is disclosed which generates power from wind
generated by the rapid movement of vehicles 1 on a road. A wind turbine, with turbine blades
3, is provided in an underground chamber. Louvers 2 allow the wind/air to enter the
underground chamber. The turbine blades are caused to rotate by the wind, rotating a shaft 4
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and driving a generator (5). The device may collect rain water in grooves 10, air may be
directed through the rain water to remove pollutants from the air. Three units may be
connected together. The units may form a network and supply energy to lighting, businesses
and houses close to the road.

A traffic regulation system and method which combines energy harvesting from the
movement of a plurality of vehicles on a roadway with wireless directional power beam
transmission using the harvested energy to encourage compliance with traffic regulations.
Electric power is generated from the movement of the moving vehicles by using a wind
turbine to harvest wind energy from the movement of vehicles or by piezoelectric plates
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which harvest compression energy from the weight of the vehicle tires on the road surface.
The electric power is transmitted to electric or hybrid vehicles which comply with the traffic
regulations. The traffic regulations are one of driving at a posted speed and driving at a safe
following distance. A control system adjusts the traffic regulation based on measurements
received from a plurality of detectors.

An electric power generator driven by the air stream produced by the passage of vehicles in
general is presented, which comprises at at least one side of a path affected by the passage
2003 of vehicles in general, a vane-type turbine (2) connected to a generator (3). The power
generator further comprises an air conveyance element (10) that accommodates the vane-
type turbine (2).

A wind-capturing electrical generator device (100) comprising a plurality of generators is

driven by wind created by traffic passing in close proximity at high speeds. The device (100)
uses horizontally or vertically mounted Savonius-type or helical-turbine-type vanes (104)
attached to electrical generators (102) in order to capture the wind and produce electrical
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energy. A plurality of electrical generator devices (100) may be mounted in a configuration
such that they are in close proximity to vehicular passageways (e.g., highway overpasses,
tunnels, or train rails). The wind created by the traffic is used to rotate the vanes (104) and
their attached generators (102) in order to produce electrical energy.

A horizontal-axis wind turbine is mounted transversely at the edge of the highway where its
blades are set in motion by the draught from vehicles (esp. heavy goods vehicles or large
omnibuses) passing at speed. The effect may be augmented by installation of several such
1992 turbogenerators one behind another, or by provision of a wind guidance channel for more
efficient coupling to the rotor blades. USE/ADVANTAGE- On railways or motorways carrying
heavy goods traffic, recovery of energy in useful form accompanied by dissipation of
combustion engine exhaust fumes.

A system for electrical power generation by utilizing wind draft force from vehicle traveling on
roadways provide two types of wind turbine apparatuses, one type is for road side which sits
along the side of a roadway; another type is for road center which is installed along at traffic
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divider line at middle of a roadway. When vehicle moves at high speed, lots energy is used to
push away air in its way. By setting wind turbines on road side and middle of road, some
portions of the wasted energy can be re-captured.
 Tunnels are constructed on roads, motorways, rail or underground rail systems. The wind
force created by traffic going through the tunnels drives a system of fans and associated
generators built into the tunnels. A tunnel system can be adapted, and built from a single type
of unit for roads, and carriageways, or as a conglomerate of fans and generators for
motorways and rail systems. A tunnel may be provided with re-charging facilities, for electric
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vehicles enabling them to travel on motorways and to travel much further distances. The
energy can be used for factories, farm projects, and small towns, anywhere in the world,
where a cheap source of energy is required. The tunnels can be set up on any busy road, rail
or underground system. Since traffic uses road and railways night and day, energy can be
collected 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Multiple turbines 5 are mounted, for example, on central reservations of motorways so that
they are rotated by air movement caused by slipstreams of vehicles passing the turbines 5.
When rotated by the wake effect of vehicles or natural wind, the turbines 5 generate
electricity and create an anti down draft which sucks air, via ducting 1, 4, through a grill
having organic filters, e.g. made of news paper, that collect carbon dioxide from polluting
vehicles and/or traps smog. An automatic grill cleaner, a fire extinguisher 2, a pressure gauge
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9 and a vortex release valve (5, fig 2) are also provided. The turbines 5 are provided with an
aerofoil or rooftop paddle to maintain wind direction and are mounted on towers made of five
used average car tyres (9) stacked on top of each other and reinforced with rods (10) and
steel spurs with a bottom tyre filled with concrete (4) and the remaining filled with sand bags.
The tyres act as a crash barrier and mitigate all vibrations. After use the filters are saturated
in recycled vegetable oil and blown dry.

A device for obtaining power to drive an electricity generator from the kinetic, gravitational or
air pressure forces present in the flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic or the ebb and flow of
sea waves, comprises means such as a plate, ramp or air input assembly for absorbing
kinetic, gravitational or air pressure energy present in these circumstances. In one
embodiment, fig.1, a pressure plate C is pressed down by passing vehicle wheels and drives
down a large-area hydraulic piston D forcing a smaller piston G to travel along a cylinder H
and to drive an output shaft N by means of meshing gear teeth. Alternatively (figs.5a-c), the
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smaller piston (C) compresses air in a cylinder (E) having a high pressure outlet (G). In a
mechanical variant, fig.3, eg a traffic calming speed hump, passing vehicles push down
ramps A,B forcing a rod C to rotate an output shaft J via a one-way clutch D. The energy may
be stored in a spiral coil spring (D, fig.7). In another arrangement, air pressure in front of
approaching vehicles is diverted down vents (A, fig.6) in the road surface and the air is
channelled past a turbine or impeller (B), assisted by the reduced pressure behind departing
vehicles.
 The utility model relates to a road turbine wind power generation device, in particular to a
multifunctional intelligent wind power generation device which can drive turbine blades to
rotate to generate power through airflow wind generated when vehicles coming and going on
a road run and store electric energy. The solar turbine generator comprises a solar panel, a
display, an LED traffic safety indicator lamp, a turbine blade body, a generator body, a rotary
mandrel, turbine blades and the like. The turbine fan blade body, the generator body and the
solar panel are respectively fixed through the upper plate seat, the lower plate seat, the
2020 support rod and the mandrel. Airflow wind formed by coming and going automobiles drives
the turbine fan blade body to rotate, and the rotating mandrel and the generator body are
driven to rotate synchronously to generate electricity. One part of electricity generated by the
solar panel is provided for various sensors, displays and LED traffic safety indicator lamps to
work intelligently, the other part of electric energy and electric energy generated by turbine
wind power form a wind-solar complementary power generation system, and the electric
energy is stored. And the multifunctional and intelligent functions are particularly suitable for
being installed, popularized and used on roads.

The various embodiments herein provide a portable wind power generator provided with a
wind turbine rotating in a cylindrical wind tunnel body and capable of generating high output
power by accelerating wind flow. The blade surface o f the turbine is partial ly exposed to the
wind flow to increase the torque of the rotating blades thereby increasing the power output.
2011 The wind power generating system uses a high wind pressure generated by fast moving
vehicles by channeling the induced wind in the direction o f the wind turbine. The system is
installed along a traffic divider line provided at the middle of a roadway. The system includes
a rotating wind turbine capable of generating high output power by accelerating an air flow
and a set of air ducts arranged opposite to each other for channelizing an air flow.

For the generation of energy by wind turbines, they are located at the sides and center
2005 islands of roads and especially motorways, to exploit the wind produced by passing traffic.
The generated electricity is passed into a grid or an electric installation.

The invention relates to devices for wind-to-electric power conversion, namely for conversion
of air flow power actuated by the road traffic.The wind turbine actuated by the road traffic
flow, according to the first variant, includes a base, onto which there is installed a fixed
vertical axle (4), onto which there is fixed a mantle. Into the mantle there is installed an
electric generator (14), the rotor (15) of which is joined with a shaft (6) with blades (7).
Novelty consists in that the shaft (6) with blades (7) is made hollow and supported onto a
fixed vertical axle (4) in bearings (5). The profile of the blades (7) in longitudinal section is
described by a logarithmic spiral, the curvature radius of which is smaller at the periphery of
the blade (7), and the number of blades (7) constitutes at least two. In the upper part of the
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hollow shaft (6), inside, there is fixed a mobile gear wheel (8), kinematically joined by means
of a satellite gear unit (9) with the fixed gear wheel (12), rigidly joined with the mantle of the
electric generator (14). The crank (11), onto which there is installed the satellite gear unit (9),
is rigidly coupled with the rotor (15) of the electric generator (14).In the wind turbine actuated
by the road traffic flow, according to the second variant, the crank is kinematically joined by
means of a unidirectional coupling with flywheel, fixed onto the rotor of the electric
generator.In the wind turbine actuated by the road traffic flow, according to the second
variant, the mobile wheel is made in the form of a friction wheel, kinematically joined by
means of the friction contacts of the satellite gear unit with the fixed friction wheel.
Titulo Notas

Traffic wind turbine and ventilation

unit

Method for energy generation and

traffic regulation using traffic
movement

Electric power generator driven by

the draft of passing vehicles

Traffic-driven wind generator

Wind power generator recovering

energy from vehicular traffic - is set
in rotation by gusts of wind
generated by passage of fast high-
sided vehicles

System and method for electrical

power generation utilizing wind draft
caused by vehicle traffic on
roadways
Using traffic generated airflow to
generate electrical energy

Carbon collection device with

electrical generation turbine

Driving an electricity generator using

the kinetic, gravitational or air
pressure forces present in the flow
of vehicular or pedestrian traffic or
sea waves
A highway turbine wind power plant

A portable wind power generator

system with adjustable vanes using
wind draft from vehicular traffic

Electricity generation by wind

turbines uses turbine locations at
roads/motorways, using the wind
produced by passing traffic

Wind turbine actuated by the road

traffic flow (variants)