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Project participants:
Prof. David Grinblat
Avichai Lal
Idan Bagrish
Ido Lavie
Aviv Levi
Ben Tzion Basik
Hitibashvily
Yehuda Weinstein
Sagi Gantz
Noam Levi
Amit Patroneus
Manjaree Binjolkar
Jianfeng Su
Team Behind Innovative Project Creates
a Wind Turbine for Water Desalination
Developments Prof. David Greenblatt, new product). Despite pandemic-related
a member of the teaching faculty, has
launched a flagship multidisciplinary restrictions, they managed to design and
project to design, build, and test
a vertical-axis wind turbine that manufacture (or order) the required parts
directly activates a reverse osmosis
water desalination pump. The project and assemble an initial prototype of the
is intended to increase students’
awareness of the close connection turbine. Future teams will need to test the
between energy and water, and the
unrivalled importance of renewable turbine in a wind tunnel under real field
energy.
This is a multi-year project, with a new conditions, produce electricity from the
team established every year. The current
team is designing and improving the hydraulic energy, and develop methods
turbine, using the existing design and the
knowledge that has been accrued since. of storing hydraulic energy.
This year, students developed the turbine
as part of their final project (planning a The project is funded by the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering and the Dean of
Graduate Students. The team includes 11
students from two faculties – the Faculty
of Mechanical Engineering (energy track)
and the Faculty of Civil Engineering (at
the international school) – along with
David Keisar and Anan Garzuzi, PhD
students in the Grand Technion Energy The wind turbine developed by the team
Program (GTEP). behind the project
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