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Haiti Wind
Project
(Summer 2011)
By Kacie O’Neil
Introduction
 Energy
Grand Challenges
 Professor Catherine Peters (CEE) was the
advisor
 Internship focused on Sustainable Energy
and easy deployment
 I focused mainly on structural analysis
Initial Challenge
 Generate
a large amount of power (kW)
 Parts had to fit into a standard shipping
container
 Easily deployable wind generator
Background
 Standard
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Shipping container holds:
Easily deployable wind turbine
Solar panels to supplement wind turbine
Easily deployable and possibly telescoping
tower to hold turbine
Turbine equipment including generator,
battery, etc.
 Originally
intended for cases such as
disaster relief (Haiti)
How the project has changed
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines
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Goals for Internship
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Main Goal: build/design a prototype
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Half scale model
For a competition in April
Looking for commercially made parts
This included:
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Finding a turbine
Choosing a battery
Finding a mast system that can fit in the
“shipping container” (half size model)
Figuring out how to ship the prototype
Constraints
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Size of parts they have to fit into a box of
limited size
Weightwhatever goes up in the air must be
supported on the ground
Deployment  needs to be set up/put up by
humans (no machines)
Construction  must be able to be packed
up and shipped elsewhere
Cost  we currently have a very limited
budget
Current design
Haiti Challenge
Current Design
 Combines
wind and solar power
 The purpose of the solar is make the
power generation more constant
 Intentions: provide energy and possibly a
source of income to pay for repair costs
SAP
Computer Modeling
Examples of Stress on a SAP
Model
SAP Models Material
SAP Model
What I was modeling
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Deformed Shape
Conclusion
 Prototype
was planned but not built (no
space during the summer)
 Learned a lot about structural analysis
 Gained valuable experience working on
a research project learning about how to
revise plans to make them better