Product Features
The IAT is a football shaped turbine with helicoid spirals around its outer casing that capture and convert energy from flowing water.
The free-floating approach affords a wide range of flexibility for deployment at virtually any depth in flowing water.
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Built to site specific size – relevant to required output and site conditions.
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Is able to generate 1MW – 50 or more MW of energy, dependent on size and site conditions and requirements.
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Generates electricity at low water flow rates
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Scalable and adaptable to a wide range of aquatic environments
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Simple shape and Venturi characteristics help accelerate the fluid flowing over the blade system
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Can be configured with an internal generator or drive an external generator
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Can be operated in a partially or fully submerged configuration
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Functions well in reversible current flows
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Multiple units can be deployed together to create a substantial floating power plant
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Multiple devices strung in tandem can be deployed in counter-rotating orientation to enhance the rotational value within a given column of water.
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Low impact on aquatic life and other environmental concerns
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Impervious to debris and resistant to fouling; unaffected by vegetation, ice and other environmental hazards
ESTIMATED OUTPUT FOR IAT -Click chart to enlarge
TIDAL & RIVER FLOW PRODUCTS
IAT has neutral impact on wildlife during operation.
IAT can operate in varying depths of water.
Final assembly in our facility.
IAT has neutral impact on wildlife during operation.
IN-STREAM OR OCEAN AUGER
TURBINE SYSTEM (IAT)
Available Turbine Sizes
Site Specific – 3MW – 50MW
Product Display
NPC Global, Hawaii Centre for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT),
Product Development and Test Records
NPC Global and Hawaii Centre for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT)
Hawaii Technology Development Venture (HTDV) and the Pacific International Centre for High Technology Research (PICHTR), funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
CURRENT PROJECTS UNDERWAY FOR IAT
Talboom Belgium
NPC anticipate the Talboom to invest $10 M in the ocean current technologies combined. These will be commercially deployable in under 2 years. These are fundamentally IAT’s augers - but require full engineering for the ocean application and size. JV Documents will be signed in next 3 months, the first pilot expected to produce a minimum of 3MW.
India
NPC formed a JV in May 2014 with ONGC (India) to supply IAT’s and will begin to supply at least 50 MW in the first site and move to 250 MW or more as a minimum. Indian government have given approval for 2 sites for this pilot project and agreed to PPA agreements for the energy supplied from these projects.
Argentina
NPC currently have an open door for an IAT turbines project in Argentina with top government and Energy companies. Aiming for commitments for MW projects with PPA components.
Concept for a project is to start with 1-5 of the IAT turbines, get them on site and let them perform for 3 months or so - and then move toward scaling up.