University Student Workshops

Practical workshops are organised as parts of undergraduate dissertation projects and are open to all students of NTUA. During these workshops small wind turbines are constructed from scratch by the students, a process which provides practical evidence of the ability to locally manufacture these small wind turbines by unqualified constructors. The students have the chance to get acquainted with different tools and techniques such as cutting and griding metals, arc welding, using hand carving tools for wood and making resin moulds. Also they get acquainted with using different materials such as wood, resins, iron and copper by winding coils, carving the rotor blades, casting the stator and rotors of the generator and welding the metal frame. To this date, four small wind turbines for battery charging and grid connection have been manufactured, with rotor diameters from 2.4m to 6m and two small hydro turbines of 350W nominal power, one for grid connection and one for battery charging with an iron core.

 

  • P1030638Assembly of a Prusha i3 3D printer in the hackerspcae.gr and printing of a turgo runner for pico-hydro plants – 23rd and 24th of December 2015

 

  • P1030656Construction of an axial flux generator stator with an iron powder core for a 350W pico-hydroelectric plant for direct battery connection – 1st to 15th of July 2015

 

  • Construction of an axial flux generator with neodumium P1010099magnets for a 6m rotor diameter small wind turbine for direct battery connection – 1st to 15th of July 2015

 

  • DSC_1720Construction of an axial flux generator with Ferrite magnets for a 2.4m rotor diameter small wind turbine for direct battery connection – 19th to 23rd of August 2013

 

  • Construction of a 350W grid connected pico IMG_0870hydroelectric plant using an axial flux generator – 21st to 31st of May 2012 (poster)

 

  • IMG_0288Curving wooden blades for a small wind turbine rotor of 4.3m diameter – 21st to 30th of November 2011 (poster)

 

 

  • Construction of an axial flux generator with Neodymium magnets for a 4.3m rotor diameter small wind turbine for grid connection – 6th to 17th of December 2010 (poster)

 

  • PICT0646Construction of a 2.4m rotor diameter small wind turbine for direct battery connection – 6th to 24th of April 2009