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How does it work?
The solar mill is the principle behind the Helios Mylos. Driven by tiled Fresnel lenses/reflectors or large, reflective, parabolic dishes to focus sunlight onto a single point below the lenses or above the dishes where ferromagnetic blades of a turbine-like rotor can capture the heat and transform it into rotational kinetic energy that can be converted into electric or dynamic energy. Unlike the Sterling system, the TDRM rotates because of a directed permanent magnetic field in which the heated blades are no longer attracted and therefor pushed aside by their neighboring blades. Depending on the type of ferromagnetic material of the blade operational temperatures vary roughly between 80 °C and 800 °C.
The TDRM-1 (patent number NL2006633 & PCT/NL2011/050896) is the heart or muscle, if you will, of the world’s first solar mill. It is capable of generating electrical or mechanical power from a heat source and is therefore placed in a special solar tracking & ray deflecting device called SARa. Ferromagnetic blades of a turbine-like rotor capture heat produced by SARa and transform it into rotational kinetic energy that can be converted into electric or dynamic energy.
SARa is the encased autonomous tracking robot capable of looking at the sun and minding all the dynamics that could interfere in its view. When SARa aligns with the sun it allows the TDRM-1 to generate power.
For more information our website:
http://www.heliosmylos.com
The solar mill is the principle behind the Helios Mylos. Driven by tiled Fresnel lenses/reflectors or large, reflective, parabolic dishes to focus sunlight onto a single point below the lenses or above the dishes where ferromagnetic blades of a turbine-like rotor can capture the heat and transform it into rotational kinetic energy that can be converted into electric or dynamic energy. Unlike the Sterling system, the TDRM rotates because of a directed permanent magnetic field in which the heated blades are no longer attracted and therefor pushed aside by their neighboring blades. Depending on the type of ferromagnetic material of the blade operational temperatures vary roughly between 80 °C and 800 °C.
The TDRM-1 (patent number NL2006633 & PCT/NL2011/050896) is the heart or muscle, if you will, of the world’s first solar mill. It is capable of generating electrical or mechanical power from a heat source and is therefore placed in a special solar tracking & ray deflecting device called SARa. Ferromagnetic blades of a turbine-like rotor capture heat produced by SARa and transform it into rotational kinetic energy that can be converted into electric or dynamic energy.
SARa is the encased autonomous tracking robot capable of looking at the sun and minding all the dynamics that could interfere in its view. When SARa aligns with the sun it allows the TDRM-1 to generate power.
For more information our website:
http://www.heliosmylos.com
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Netherlands