Microsoft sponsored start up, Saphon Energy pioneers blade-less wind turbine technology in Africa.


Microsoft sponsored Morrocan start-up, Sapphon Energy is pioneering ground breaking innovations on how to ensure Africa is serviced with renewable energy. The instability in energy prices and precarious political situations across some African countries has made the economic condition of many African countries take a nose dive.  Saphon Energy, with the bladeless wind power technology has a gone the extra mile of delivering clean and renewable alternative energy to Africa.
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“Bladeless wind power technology seems to be on the brink of a breakthrough. There are endless extremely elegant and usually rather sculptural approaches, including one by an architectural company Mecanoo at the University of Delft. But none of these rather striking applications have gone much beyond prototype. This is what makes Saphon Energy interesting because it looks as if it will get the technology out of the door and to the customer”, reports SmartMonkeyTV’s Russell Southwood.

According to one of the co partners, Saphon Energy,Hassine Labaied “The bladeless convertor was invented and designed by Anis Aouini (co partner Saphon Energy ), who challenged the existing conventional technology (bladed turbines) and came up with a radical new way of harnessing the wind energy which is largely inspired by the sailboat. Anis has substantially enhanced the initial design which moved through 5 different versions and has recently reached the industrial design stage”.

In an interview with Southwood, Labaeid said the technology nicknamed the Saphonian “is a highly efficient on account of its revolutionary design and the use of a radical new 3D Aouinian kinematics. The Saphonian sail-shaped body is capable of capturing twice as much wind kinetic energy as a 3 blade turbine for the same swept area. Prototype’ tests showed that the Saphonian’s output efficiency level is 2.3 times as high as that of a bladed turbine. The aerodynamics features of the Saphonian make it more productive when used in wind parks”.




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