i would like to get details on EWICON with presentation slides for seminar presentation.now im doing diploma, mechanical engineering.i need help
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Wind power may be one of the most sustainable energy sources available, but conventional wind turbine propellers require regular maintenance and have attracted criticism from bird lovers. That might explain why we have seen prototypes of wind turbines that lock the blades in a camera or replace them entirely with a disk-like system. But researchers in the Netherlands set out to completely eliminate the need for a mechanical component and created the EWICON, a bladeless wind turbine with no moving parts that produces electricity using charged water droplets.
Where most wind turbines generate electricity through mechanical energy, the EWICON (short for electrostatic electric power CONvertor) creates potential energy with charged particles - in this case, water droplets. The current design consists of a steel structure that holds a series of horizontally arranged insulated tubes. Each tube contains various electrodes and nozzles, which continuously release particles of water positively charged into the air. As the particles are started, the voltage of the device changes and creates an electric field, which can be transferred to the grid for daily use.
Energy production would depend not only on the wind speed but also on the number of droplets, the amount of charge placed in the droplets, and the strength of the electric field.