WIND ENERGY CAPTURING DEVICES WITH POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION ON CONTAINER SHIPS

This article presents different types of unconventional sources of energy, green ones, which can be implemented on a container ship. In the articleare descriebed renewable energy devices, used like an alternative source of energy, green energy suitable for container ships, for reducing environment pollution and fuel consumption. We have made some studies by using CFD programme Ansys Fluent, for discovering the forces which influence the Flettner balloon if is installed on top of a container ship at 300 m altitude. This article major points are: wind energy capturing devices, Makani Power Plane, Ampyx Power Plane, Altaeros Energies, Kite Gen, Joby Energy, Flettner balloon. In the article we also highlight the influence of meteorology when we select the best, optimal and most efficient green energy device suitable for a container ship in order to upgrade it. The present article is a piece of a big research on the installation of unconventional energy sources, on container ships.