Designing wind power plant for mounting on smoke stacks of offshore infrastructure facilities

The article focuses on implementation and operation of the wind power plant of the original design for mounting on the chimneys of seaport power facilities. The worked out wind power unit makes it possible to use secondary thermal energy (heat from the exhaust gases of a boiler house, a mini-thermal power plant based on gas reciprocating plants, etc.) to generate electricity in an amount sufficient to satisfy or partially compensate the needs of the power facility. The aspect of the wind power plant design and the concept of energy generation have been worked out. The hot surface area of the stack serves as the source of energy for upward air flows in the developed original design of the wind power plant. The wind power plant placed on top of the stack is an additional environmentally friendly way of using the potential of renewable energy sources for electric power generation. This method differs from the existing ones in that the pipe is used not as a high support where higher wind speeds prevail, but as a source of thermal energy from secondary energy resources (flue gases of the fuel plant). Wind power plant design includes chimney, generator rotor, permanent rotor magnet, thrust collar for stator winding assembly, thrust collar for bearing assembly, brake drum, brake shoe, brake drive lever, rotor brake drive cable, brake handle and other elements. The introduction of such power units will partially or fully compensate for the own needs of the power facilities that generate thermal and electric energy for the reliable and uninterrupted operation of port services