A well designed turbine ventilator, like the SVS Windy, takes advantage of the wind to create a positive flow through the throat of the ventilator.
The wind influences the performance of the ventilator in two ways:
- Low pressure zone created on the leeward side of the ventilator, because of the striking winds, thus extracting air from the building.
- The centripetal force associated with the rotation flings air outwards from the tips of the vanes. Thus fresh air is drawn into the building.
Windy® turbines promote:
- Healthy living
- Increase in productivity
- Reduction in maintenance of plant & machinery by reducing humidity levels
- Increased life of roofing sheets
- Use of renewable source of wind energy
- Achievement of environmental standards
Could turbine ventilators be modified to produce power, like a wind turbine? How would this affect their efficiency?
Hello Silas. Well, we here at SVS are currently into the R&D of such a power generating wind driven turbine and the least we can say is that the tests are still under progress. At this stage we will be unable to comment on the effect such a technology will have on the efficiency of the output of the wind turbine, but the results as of now are pretty positive.