About WINDGRABBER® - Omni-Directional Building Integrated Wind Energy Power Enhancer Systems & Technology!
WINDGRABBER® is a USPTO patented & trademarked new wind energy conversion system technology for integrating most any current or emerging commercially available wind turbine system of a unique and specified, more conservative & safe design into buildings of any size on a competitively bid basis!
WINDGRABBER® is a novel new integrated building, rooftop, or tower mounted wind turbine system with current commercialization planned for up to 500 kWe. The WINDGRABBER® system is both socially and economically attractive in an environmentally friendly manner. The system concentrates and utilizes the available energy in the wind via a passively or actively yawed inlet air scoop or scoops using a relatively low speed and low noise generating air turbine design using a multi-phased wind inlet air flow section or sections of air impact and drag flow design.
WINDGRABBER® Power is derived primarily from maximizing the differential pressure created across a building containing a fully Integrated WINDGRABBER® Wind Turbine System at least partially within it, while minimizing the mass air flow velocities required through the building's associated air supply and exhaust flow channels. These relatively low air velocity flow channels can simultaneously be cross-purpose-utilized by building occupants as multi-purpose recreational, casual dining, theme park or business meeting areas while efficient wind power is being generated!
The WINDGRABBER® wind turbine system preferentially utilizes a combination radial out-flow, cross-flow, reaction-impulse type wind turbine of either Squirrel Cage, Savonius or Darrieus type configuration and design, using either a single or double axial flow inlet of centrifugal fan design, with backwardly curved, air foil type air blades. The wind turbine uses the air power instead of the wind power equations, combined with the associated resistances and shock losses related to the air flow through the converging and diverging flow channels and wind impact - drag sections, as well as through the wind turbine assembly itself, to determine system wind energy conversion effectiveness with respect to the Betz limit as well as overall system net efficiencies. Low pressure drop screens may be provided at the various inlets and outlets to protect birds and other small mammals from being drawn into rotating components, as required.
Latest BCK Consulting, LLC / WINDGRABBER® thinking is for the development and construction of new, or conversion of existing and abandoned shopping mall / recreational type properties and facilities, into medium to large sized Industrial Park / WINDGRABBER® Wind Turbine - Integrated Office Building Complexes, with the taller WINDGRABBER® Buildings located at equal spaces around the outer periphery of the central park area. These industrial park complexes would be preferentially located along major East - West interstate freeway corridors in more Southern and windy resourced locations. From four to eight medium to large sized and relatively tall WINDGRABBER® Buildings would be employed for each industrial park - office building complex. Each building structure would be designed to contain, at least partially within it, a single 150 kWh to 250 kWh sized wind turbine system of conservative design and operation for more socially acceptable and renewable on-site energy generation and utilization. Each industrial central park complex would be most appropriately surrounded in turn by strategically located parking lots, landscaped with shade trees and/or solar photo-voltaic paneled roof structures, as would be most cost effectively designed to both shade and re-charge parked cars as well as provide power and heat to the overall complex area during day time business hours, while a combination of both solar heat and photo-voltaic solar paneled roof structures would be added above the existing, relatively conventional central mall area structures to complete the zero net energy based BCK Consulting, LLC - WINDGRABBER® Industrial Park - Building cluster architecture - using a maximum of renewable energy systems in its design!
Conversely, some of these WINDGRABBER® Industrial Park - Building clusters could be developed or retrofitted from rededicated and/or abandoned shopping mall centers, converted into easy to manage and maintain, centrally located community shelters for the housing, protection, employment and sustainment of a communities' itinerant and homeless citizens in a safer, more sanitary and healthy manner and for the benefit of all concerned in the surrounding region. Various combinations of these two concepts could be developed for any specific communities' specific needs as may be required at various times into the future.
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With a WINDGRABBER®, Wind Turbine - Integrated Office Building system design, the BETZ Law becomes a meaningless design limit when applied to most WINDGRABBER® Integrated Building Wind Turbine applications, as the Building itself becomes the cross sectional area for providing the required wind energy capturing profile!
An additional and unique feature of a WINDGRABBER® installation on, within or above your home or office building's rooftop is that, once the WINDGRABBER® system has been financed and installed, a future replacement or up grade will be very competitive with any other renewable energy alternative that might be considered. Also, if the local wind resources you had anticipated don't prove viable, you can always convert it into a very nice screened in rooftop gazebo or upper floor atrium type enclosure with a 360 degree view!
Developing a most cost effective, socially acceptable way to integrate Wind Power into Buildings!
A Phase I – CFD & CAE modeling, technical feasibility assessment and conceptual design verification program utilizing a 1,000 to 2,000 watt pilot plant test unit, followed by a Phase II - design optimization program with a 3,000 to 5,000 watt prototype demonstration unit, and ultimately followed by a Phase III commercial demonstration and product improvement, cost effective design applied R&D type program in a 8 to 10 kWe unit size range is currently under consideration. Results of the most recently completed Rimrock, AZ conceptual design pilot test program are currently available for discussion. State of the Art Advanced Math Modeling techniques have recently been conducted and completed in 2019 utilizing both Solidworks 2017 for CAD models and STAR CCM+ for CFD static and in-motion studies for further optimization of the WINDGRABBER® wind turbine and associated enclosure systems with further wind turbine improvements to the Rimrock, AZ Prototype unit currently being planned for the Summer of 2020. Please see the most recently presented Technical Presentation made at the 2019 ASME IMECE in Salt Lake City, Utah for the latest results and as now available for public viewing elsewhere in this web site.
BCK Consulting, L.L.C. is a domestic limited liability company organized most recently under the laws of the State of Arizona in 2013, and is currently in good standing; Brett C. Krippene, PE, Owner; SAM registration and activation status was most recently updated as of December, 2019, with a current expiration date of December, 2020. DUNS Plus 4 and Cage Code numbers are available upon request by interested government R&D awards contract potential partners and collaborators.
WINDGRABBER® is a novel new integrated building, rooftop, or tower mounted wind turbine system with current commercialization planned for up to 500 kWe. The WINDGRABBER® system is both socially and economically attractive in an environmentally friendly manner. The system concentrates and utilizes the available energy in the wind via a passively or actively yawed inlet air scoop or scoops using a relatively low speed and low noise generating air turbine design using a multi-phased wind inlet air flow section or sections of air impact and drag flow design.
WINDGRABBER® Power is derived primarily from maximizing the differential pressure created across a building containing a fully Integrated WINDGRABBER® Wind Turbine System at least partially within it, while minimizing the mass air flow velocities required through the building's associated air supply and exhaust flow channels. These relatively low air velocity flow channels can simultaneously be cross-purpose-utilized by building occupants as multi-purpose recreational, casual dining, theme park or business meeting areas while efficient wind power is being generated!
The WINDGRABBER® wind turbine system preferentially utilizes a combination radial out-flow, cross-flow, reaction-impulse type wind turbine of either Squirrel Cage, Savonius or Darrieus type configuration and design, using either a single or double axial flow inlet of centrifugal fan design, with backwardly curved, air foil type air blades. The wind turbine uses the air power instead of the wind power equations, combined with the associated resistances and shock losses related to the air flow through the converging and diverging flow channels and wind impact - drag sections, as well as through the wind turbine assembly itself, to determine system wind energy conversion effectiveness with respect to the Betz limit as well as overall system net efficiencies. Low pressure drop screens may be provided at the various inlets and outlets to protect birds and other small mammals from being drawn into rotating components, as required.
Latest BCK Consulting, LLC / WINDGRABBER® thinking is for the development and construction of new, or conversion of existing and abandoned shopping mall / recreational type properties and facilities, into medium to large sized Industrial Park / WINDGRABBER® Wind Turbine - Integrated Office Building Complexes, with the taller WINDGRABBER® Buildings located at equal spaces around the outer periphery of the central park area. These industrial park complexes would be preferentially located along major East - West interstate freeway corridors in more Southern and windy resourced locations. From four to eight medium to large sized and relatively tall WINDGRABBER® Buildings would be employed for each industrial park - office building complex. Each building structure would be designed to contain, at least partially within it, a single 150 kWh to 250 kWh sized wind turbine system of conservative design and operation for more socially acceptable and renewable on-site energy generation and utilization. Each industrial central park complex would be most appropriately surrounded in turn by strategically located parking lots, landscaped with shade trees and/or solar photo-voltaic paneled roof structures, as would be most cost effectively designed to both shade and re-charge parked cars as well as provide power and heat to the overall complex area during day time business hours, while a combination of both solar heat and photo-voltaic solar paneled roof structures would be added above the existing, relatively conventional central mall area structures to complete the zero net energy based BCK Consulting, LLC - WINDGRABBER® Industrial Park - Building cluster architecture - using a maximum of renewable energy systems in its design!
Conversely, some of these WINDGRABBER® Industrial Park - Building clusters could be developed or retrofitted from rededicated and/or abandoned shopping mall centers, converted into easy to manage and maintain, centrally located community shelters for the housing, protection, employment and sustainment of a communities' itinerant and homeless citizens in a safer, more sanitary and healthy manner and for the benefit of all concerned in the surrounding region. Various combinations of these two concepts could be developed for any specific communities' specific needs as may be required at various times into the future.
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With a WINDGRABBER®, Wind Turbine - Integrated Office Building system design, the BETZ Law becomes a meaningless design limit when applied to most WINDGRABBER® Integrated Building Wind Turbine applications, as the Building itself becomes the cross sectional area for providing the required wind energy capturing profile!
An additional and unique feature of a WINDGRABBER® installation on, within or above your home or office building's rooftop is that, once the WINDGRABBER® system has been financed and installed, a future replacement or up grade will be very competitive with any other renewable energy alternative that might be considered. Also, if the local wind resources you had anticipated don't prove viable, you can always convert it into a very nice screened in rooftop gazebo or upper floor atrium type enclosure with a 360 degree view!
Developing a most cost effective, socially acceptable way to integrate Wind Power into Buildings!
A Phase I – CFD & CAE modeling, technical feasibility assessment and conceptual design verification program utilizing a 1,000 to 2,000 watt pilot plant test unit, followed by a Phase II - design optimization program with a 3,000 to 5,000 watt prototype demonstration unit, and ultimately followed by a Phase III commercial demonstration and product improvement, cost effective design applied R&D type program in a 8 to 10 kWe unit size range is currently under consideration. Results of the most recently completed Rimrock, AZ conceptual design pilot test program are currently available for discussion. State of the Art Advanced Math Modeling techniques have recently been conducted and completed in 2019 utilizing both Solidworks 2017 for CAD models and STAR CCM+ for CFD static and in-motion studies for further optimization of the WINDGRABBER® wind turbine and associated enclosure systems with further wind turbine improvements to the Rimrock, AZ Prototype unit currently being planned for the Summer of 2020. Please see the most recently presented Technical Presentation made at the 2019 ASME IMECE in Salt Lake City, Utah for the latest results and as now available for public viewing elsewhere in this web site.
BCK Consulting, L.L.C. is a domestic limited liability company organized most recently under the laws of the State of Arizona in 2013, and is currently in good standing; Brett C. Krippene, PE, Owner; SAM registration and activation status was most recently updated as of December, 2019, with a current expiration date of December, 2020. DUNS Plus 4 and Cage Code numbers are available upon request by interested government R&D awards contract potential partners and collaborators.
About Brett Krippene
Kings Point Class of '61 Graduate with BS in Marine Engineering; U.S.C.G Licensed Marine Engineering Officer; Lieutenant J.G. USNR: Life Fellow Member - ASME Power & FACT's Divisions. Owner and President - BCK Consulting, L.L.C. Mr. Krippene is a recipient of the "Outstanding Professional Achievement" award as presented to him by the United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association at the 50th Class of 1961 Reunion Awards Dinner at Kings Point, Long Island, New York for “Exemplifying the Best Tradition of the Corps – Acta Non Verba”.
WINDGRABBER® Small Wind Turbine Systems, 1 to 500 kWe, WINDGRABBER® Architectural Wind Systems, are currently USPTO patented (7) and under further research & development. The seventh USPTO CIP patent was most recently granted as an additional non-provisional, utility type patent by the USPTO for "OMNIDIRECTIONAL BUILDING INTEGRATED WIND ENERGY POWER ENHANCER SYSTEM's" - US Patent No. 10,280,900. Mr. Krippene is currently Looking for partners to continue the research, development and commercialization of his WINDGRABBER® systems and technology. Various presentations are available upon request.
WINDGRABBER® is a USPTO registered trademark; issued and currently active, as of April 4, 2017.
Three additional USPTO patents were also developed and applied for by Mr. Krippene as Product Manager for the Babcock & Wilcox Co. for first generation low NOx emissions pulverized coal, oil and gas fired burners and combustion systems for both industrial and utility boilers and process units, as granted to him by the USPTO and consigned to the Babcock & Wilcox Company in the early 1970's.
WINDGRABBER® Small Wind Turbine Systems, 1 to 500 kWe, WINDGRABBER® Architectural Wind Systems, are currently USPTO patented (7) and under further research & development. The seventh USPTO CIP patent was most recently granted as an additional non-provisional, utility type patent by the USPTO for "OMNIDIRECTIONAL BUILDING INTEGRATED WIND ENERGY POWER ENHANCER SYSTEM's" - US Patent No. 10,280,900. Mr. Krippene is currently Looking for partners to continue the research, development and commercialization of his WINDGRABBER® systems and technology. Various presentations are available upon request.
WINDGRABBER® is a USPTO registered trademark; issued and currently active, as of April 4, 2017.
Three additional USPTO patents were also developed and applied for by Mr. Krippene as Product Manager for the Babcock & Wilcox Co. for first generation low NOx emissions pulverized coal, oil and gas fired burners and combustion systems for both industrial and utility boilers and process units, as granted to him by the USPTO and consigned to the Babcock & Wilcox Company in the early 1970's.