Structure Design and Experimental Study on Stirred-Damped Wind-Powered Heater

This paper firstly proposes an innovative wind-powered water heater which combines stirred and damped thermal effects together from liquid by wind energy. Working principle of this kind of wind-powered heater is described and verified by experiments. A prototype of wind-powered heater was made with stirring vane, damping panel and a vertical axis wind turbine based on this method. Experiments were carried out and the experimental comparisons are made with different stirred liquid temperatures, different separating blade, different belt transmission ratio, different stirring vane width and different stirring vane length. Some important conclusions are drawned out, which verify the feasibility of this heat generation equipment and a certain practical value of this wind-powered heater from wind energy.