Program

RACINGAEOLUS
Program
17 - 21 August 2011

Content
Baltic Thunder 4
Emden 5
SAWE 6
Chinook 7
Inventus 8
Windchaser 9
Hardlainer 10
Spirit of Amsterdam 11
Br1stol 12
Anemo III 13
DTU 14
Programme 15
Race location 16
Tourist Information 18
Telephone numbers 19
It is a great honor to organise the Racing AEOLUS for the second time in Den Helder. We are
very pleased with so many teams from all over the world. The Wind Energy Event organisation
has done its very best to organise an unforgettable event. I would like to thank all those
people who have worked so hard to make this event a success.
It is our big wish to get more sponsoring for future editions of this event to be sure that this
event can take place for many years to come.
I wish you all a great time, a good race and a lot of fun!
Margot Tunzi

Welcome
Europe is trying to deal with a financial and
economic crisis, which is manifestly notable
through the developments on the financial markets
vis a vis the situation in Greece. In these
times one can easily forget that this is not the
only challenge we are facing. Another pressing
issue is the energy system, being non sustainable.
The use of fossil fuels is under pressure as
it leads to no longer acceptable emissions, nuclear
energy is under threat due to the events
in Japan, renewables are still economically not
attractive. So what can we do?
It is clear that doing nothing is no option.
Sooner or later the energy issue will again be
on the top of the attention ladder. By that time
precious time is lost in case no further developments
have been realised. It is therefore
imperative that new energy technologies and
improvements of existing energy technologies
are developed.
Whatever our future energy mix will be, I am
convinced that renewable energy will (have to)
grow to a significant market share over time. A
number of renewable energy forms like solar
PV, wind, biomass, hydro, geothermal etc. are
under development. Early market introduction
has led to a growing market share, be it from
a very small base. This market share will grow
further in the coming decennia.
Within the renewable energies, wind energy will
play an important role. Wind energy is not particularly
new. Already in the twelfth century the
first windmills were used in EU! And The Netherlands
used windpower to pump water out of
the polders to reclaim the land! These windmills
are now a tourist attraction and a visit to
the Zaansche Schans (an open air museum
near Zaandijk) is highly recommended. Current
day wind turbines, specifically designed to
generate electricity are often not (yet?) appreciated!
However inventive we were in ‘the old days’,
wind turbines are still not fully developed.
Advanced and very powerful computer programmes
are now in use to design and optimise
wind turbines. Not only the shape of
wind turbine blades and the drive systems are
constantly being optimised, also the influence
of wind turbines on each other in wind farms
is better understood. In addition, materials and
maintenace strategies are further advanced etc.
I am convinced that one day electricity generated
from wind will be at par or even cheaper
than electricity from coal fired power plants!
For this some big
steps forward are
required.
The best inventions
and creative
ideas are often
being sparked by
competition and play! These two come together
in the windrace in Den Helder in August 2011.
This is the fourth wind race event that is being
held. The three earlier ones were a great succes
and offered a lot of fun.
I hope and expect that the third windrace in Den
Helder will again lead to accelerated developments,
but most of all I hope you all have a
great time and enjoy yourselves fully. And may
the best team win, but for me it is like the olympics:
participation is more important than winnig!
Ton Hoff
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Baltic Thunder 4
Fachhochschule Kiel
Germany
Team members:
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alois Schaffarczyk Christian Springe
B. Eng Alexander Dräger Carsten Lueg
B. Eng Christoph Ahlsen Christoph Preuss
B. Eng Matthias Nebel Johannes Weber
B. Eng Steffen Oggurreck Michael Schwarz
We were also supported intensively by the engineering class „Konstruktive Anwendungen“ at the University
of Applied Science Kiel.
Website www.baltic-thunder.de
Contact information Alois.Schaffarczyk@fh-kiel.de
Specifications
Length 3.20 m Mechanical drive train
Width 1.80 m Motorcycle gearbox
Height 3.00 m self-made diffuser-ring
Measured top-speed 15 km/h new self-made blades
aluminium frame
After our success in Stauning 2010, we decided to stick to the mechanical drive-train-concept and wanted
to optimize it. Right now we are still in progress modifying our vehicle. We look forward to test our car in a
wind-channel, as well. Because of the small number of team members, the Baltic Thunder IV still is neither
ready nor tested. Furthermore the old team could not participate in developing a new car, because every
one of them had to concentrate on his bachelor-/master-thesis. Our car is based on Baltic Thunder III with
some small – but hopefully effective – modifications.
Sponsors
Schrauben Schoppe Industrie- und Schiffsbedarf GmbH & Co. KG, Tsubaki Deutschland GmbH, Zentralwerkstatt
FH Kiel
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Hochschule Emden/Leer
Germany
Team members:
Prof. Torsten Steffen Jens Zart, Alwin Janssen (mechanic gearbox)
Prof. Jürgen Scholz Stefan Gosch, Johann Uphoff (transmission)
Heye Bloeß (Projektm.) Christian Plagge, Sven Hussmann (assembly)
Andre Baumann, Basian Riechers (rotor) Jens Sievers (test bench)
Specifications
Length
Width
Height
Measured top-speed
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Student Association of Wind Energy (SAWE)
Yildiz Technical University
Turkey
Team members:
Dogukan Kucuksahin Onur Samet Yildirim
Eray Caglar Kirlioglu Metehan Erkan
Emre Barlas Samet Sezer
Emre Sen Mehmet Tuncar
Umut Ozturk Mehmet Sanliturk
Ozgur Aydin Fatih Yildirim
Website www.ruzgarenerjisikulubu.com
Contact information dkucuksahin@gmail.com
Specifications
Length 3 m 4 wheels
Width 1.8 m
Height 3.5 m
rek@ruzgarenerjisikulubu.com
+90 554 358 4221
It is so fun to work for the first wind powered car of Turkey. We can feel that our engineering skills are developing
more than ever. We are willing to be the pioneering team for all the universities in Turkey to build
their own wind powered cars for the next year's race. We even imagine Wind Turbine Race to be held in
our country in a few years later.
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Chinook
École de Technologie Supérieure
Canada
Team members
Nicolas Mc Crae Vincent Caux-Brisebois
Patrice Gouin O’Shaughnessey Antoine Letarte
Alexandre Caron Cédric Somers
Louis-Charles Trudeau David Khouya
Olivier Laurin Pierre-Luc Mailloux
Julien Deschamps-Francoeur Kéven Boutin
Mathieu Bilodeau
and the members that are on the team, but staying in Montreal for budget purposes: Pier-Marc Gosselin,
Alexandre Lacombe, Philippe Alexandre Bérubé, Guillaume Cyr, Jean-François Leduc.
Website chinook.etsmtl.ca
Contact information Nicolas Mc Crae, chinook@etsmtl.ca
Specifications
Length 2.79 m Blades diameter : 1.70 m
Width 1.45 m Diffuser max. diameter : 1.98 m
Height 3.40 m Total admission area in
diffuser:
3.08 m2
Measured top-speed approx. 3 m/s in 4 m/s
wind
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Inventus
Universität Stuttgart
Germany
Team members
Daniel Kaufer (Supervisor) Lukas Dürrwächter
Julian Fial Sebastian Kaus
Suell Mües Adam Christ
Jonas Reiter Tobias Feil
Hans Wackler Philipp Albrodt
Jonathan Lintz Manuel Wetzel
Laura Fritsche
Website www.inventus.uni-stuttgart.de
Contact information Daniel Kaufer, Universität Stuttgart Stiftungslehrstuhl
Specifications
für Windenergie am Institut für Flugzeugbau Allmandring 5B
70569 Stuttgart - Vaihingen
Length 4 m Max speed 66% of wind speed
Width 2 m Weight: 150kg
Height 3.5 m Mainly used materials: Carbon fiber laminates
We started in 2007 with two students mainly involved who did their final thesis on this project. They put a
lot of effort in the vehicle and together with a lot of support from other voluntary students did a great job.
Like that we could win the first race in 2008 which was a great experience for us.
In the following years we did not have any final thesis working on the vehicle. Currently the team consists
of voluntarily working students spending a lot of their free time working on the vehicle.
Fortunately we could also recruit some new students who are now part of our team. These students are
mainly friends of us who by and by got really fascinated about our project and now actively support it.
In contrast to that our sponsors are more or less the same ones than in the years before. This is a good
sign for us as we can be sure that they appreciate what we’re doing with their logos on our vehicle.
We will see the result of our work at the end of August and until then the whole team will work as one and
do its best to make the car competitive. But one thing is already sure, we will be proud of what we will have
reached until then.
Sponsors
All our sponsors can be seen on our website www.inventus.uni-stuttgart.de.
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Windchasers
Aarhus University, Institute of Business and Technology
Denmark
Team members
Karsten Bejder Carina Enevold Andersen
Gert Maj Karsten Larsen
Thomas Baltzer Jørgensen Jonatan Bjærre Christiansen
Henrik Sandegaard Rasmus Sole Nørgaard
Magnus Tobias Larsson Alexander Hilligsø Madsen
Website
Contact information Karsten Bejder karstenb@hih.au.dk, +45 61 10 76 47
Thomas Baltzer Jørgensen 90093@hih.au.dk , +45 27 14 71 33
Laura Stankeviciute 90686@hih.au.dk, +45 50 27 76 44
Specifications
Length 3.20 m Nominal speed motor 55 km/h
Width 2.00 m Hub motor Golden Motors, MW16C
Height 3.00 m Wind turbine Windtronics, BTPS6500
We are absolute new in the game, so we are very busy building a car from scratch. From the start the
project became cross disciplinary, so there are students from different educations in the team: BSc in
Electronic Design Engineering (EDE), Business Development Engineer (BDE) and BA in International
Management. The first thing we started with, was to define the philosophy for the car, it should be purely
electrical, based on the latest innovative technologies, computer-based, built on modules, easy to optimise
and easy to transport. The car is build with a exoskeleton chassis, made by foam and Fiberglas. Right now
we are building these parts.During the next weeks we will be building the aluminium parts of the car, the
rear axle and the supporters for the hub motor and the wind turbine. Very early in the process we came
in contact with our main sponsor Vestas, who has donated a highly valued assistance in building the car.
It has been very easy to get members for the team, because from the start there has been a very high
interest in the project at the university.
Sponsors
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HARDLAINER
Ronald Ruf
Austria
Team members
Roli Ruf Rephi
Reini Zach Lex Barker
Ado Nakicevic
Website www.gegenwindfahrzeug.wordpress.com
Contact information roland.ruf@ufg.ac.at
Specifications
Length 4 m two different (exchangeable) kinds of vertical axis
windturbunes
Width 2 m wind rotor area 3,96 m2
Height 3 m pure mechanical transmission, 18 gears
Sponsors
...härter am Wind
For a long time the HARD LAINER TEAM cosisted just of oneperson: Roli Ruf designed, organized and
cunstructed this vehicle for his finalthesis at Kunstuniversität Linz mainly on his own with the aim at bulding
asimple headwind driven vehicle, comprehensible for interested laymans
likehimself. For the race some of his friends will support him and form the HARDLAINER TEAM. Name
sponsor and supporter of the early days is comedian GÜNTHERLAINER, further main supporters are the
city of Linz and the office ofprovincial government member Rudi Anschober. All in all the search for sponsorswas
arduous but in the end at least the material costs of about € 1.700 couldbe covered, if nothing
else by material spronsoring of some small localcompanies.
The first tests took place in May 2011 where the generalfunctionality of the vehicle could be proved. For
the race in Den Helder theteam hopes to improve its test results and represent vertical axis dragturbines
worthily.
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Team Spirit of Amsterdam
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Team members
Ingmar Hendriks Daniël van der Meulen
Oliver Heijmeijer Wessel Reurslag
Lars Weernekers Emil Salomé
Lucas de Groot Hugo van Tienhoven
Johnny Besters Jan-Willem Meijer
Jurriaan de Groot Sam Zwaan
Dirk Burgers Otto de Graaf
Shalini Ganpat Marike Kok
Gerard Broers
Website www.SpiritOfAmsterdam.com
www.SpiritOfAmsterdam.nl
Contact information
Specifications
Ingmar Hendriks (Spirit of Amsterdam project leader)
info@spiritofamsterdam.nl, (+31)0638181149
Length 3.1 m Drivetrain: Electrical
Width 2 m Rotor break system: Electrical failsafe brake
Height 3.4 m Turbine type: Diffuser wind turbine (Donqi)
After the award winning Spirit of amsterdam 1 in 2009 and the spirit of amsterdam 2 in 2010, the third wind
powered vehicle is being build by a new group of students from the Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
Each year, since participating in the race, we have tried to create a project in which our students from
several different faculties can work together to achieve a mutual goal. By integrating students with several
different faculties we can achieve results that cannot be matched by students from a single faculty.
Spirit of Amsterdam 3
The Spirit of Amsterdam 3 will introduce several new mechanical, electrical and aerodynamic concepts.
These new concepts however are so radical that our expectations with this vehicle
are not as great as the Spirit of Amsterdam 2. But we do expect to set several new
benchmarks for future wind powered vehicles.
Sponsors
All our sponsors can be seen on our website
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Team Br1stol
University of Bristol
Website www.teambr1stol.co.uk.
In September 2010, Bristol University became the first UK team to enter the competition and using its
unique twin-turbine design, was the first entry ever to complete the race using an electrical vehicle. Over
the last year, student projects aiming to refine the vehicle’s design have continued and the team is now
hard at work in preparing an improved entry for the August 2011 race. As usual, the clock seems to be ticking
far too fast!
In addition to providing an ideal platform for a range of research and design projects, Aeolus directly complements
a number of the University’s teaching modules, giving students a real practical application for the
knowledge gained. The project has also sparked interest amongst the wider general public through public
displays, outreach events, news articles and even a BBC TV documentary, which followed the team’s experience
at the 2010 race. For these reasons, we sincerely hope that Aeolus will remain a flagship project
at Bristol for many years to come, of which our Faculty of Engineering can be truly proud.
Sponsors
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Team Anemo III
Inholland - Delft
Team members
Aeronautical Engineering Anne, Dawud, Guus, Jeroen, Martin, Michiel, Mitchel, Ricardo,
Rik, Ronald, Sascha, Stephan, Thys, Vincent, Willem, Wim
Computer science Bram, Marc, Mark, Maria, Menno, Michel, Tycho, Xavier
Aerospace Engineering Dimitris, Egalinas, Ewoud, Gaurav, Gorgoge, Yuhui
Website www.teamanemo.com
Contact information info@teamanemo.nl / +3161527906
Team Anemo is a project that allows students to gather from different studies to excel them self by linking
their education to tasks within the project. This year the team has more than thirty students who are involved
in the process of creating Anemo III in their spare time; from designing wind turbine blades to developing
a website for mobile devices.
While driving a vehicle using potential energy of the wind do not forget the use of a sustainable source.
This is why the focus of Team Anemo is to use sustainable materials and apply new technics/developments
where possible in order to learn heaps along the way.
It has been a great experience for each and every one of us and we wish everyone good luck during the
race!
Sponsors
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Windturbine Racer
DTU
Denmark
Team members
Robert Istvan
Mac Alwin
Camron + 3
Website www.windturbineracer.com
Contact information rm@mek.dtu.dk
Specifications
Length 3.5 m rotor 4 wings measuring 1.8 m in diameter
Width 1.98 m diffuser 1.96 m in diameter and 40 cm in
chord
Height 3.2 m Obtainable max speeds 43% of wind speed
Sponsors
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Program
Wednesday August 17th
From 9.00 hrs Registration
Thursday August 18th
9.30 hrs Departure to the Dijk
10.00 hrs Start race
12.00 hrs lunch
12.30 hrs press moment
13.00 hrs Race continues
16.30 hrs Departure to the Rugby Club
Friday August 19th
9.30 hrs Departure to the Dijk
10.00 hrs Start race
12.00 hrs lunch
12.30 hrs press moment
13.00 hrs Race continues
16.30 hrs Departure to the Rugby Club
Workplace
The workplace is located at Hotel Den Helder
Marsdiepstraat 2
And is opened until 22.00 hrs.
Saturday August 20th
10.30 hrs Departure to the Dijk
11.00 hrs Start race
12.00 hrs lunch
13.00 hrs Race continues
14.00 hrs Start meet & great at Rugby Club
14.45 hrs Departure to the Dijk
15.00 hrs Start Finals
15.30 hrs Press moment
16.30 hrs Departure to the Rugby Club
17.00 hrs Meet & Great Reception
18.30 hrs Award Ceremony
19.00 hrs Barbecue
20.30 hrs Party
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Race location
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Route
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Tourist Information
Den Helder
Den Helder is located at the top of the
“Kop van North-Holland”. Almost 60000
people live in the city. Den Helder is surrounded
by water on the north-, west- and
eastside. Den Helder is famous for the
Navy and the yearly event Naval Days,
visited by tens of thousands of people. In
the city centre are lots of shops and an
indoor shopping mall. The different kinds
of restaurants and pavement cafes guarantee
a lovely visit.
Lighthouse of Huisduinen
The beaches in Den Helder are worth a visit during good weather. During bad weather Den Helder offers
lots of different things to do. Fort Kijkduin, a sealife aquarium with North Sea fishes in an old fort of Napoleon’s
time is worth a visit. The Naval Museum with an old submarine and other old ships is very interesting
and the Lifeboat museum attracts lots of visitors.
Käthe Kruse Toys- and Doll museum, Greenhouse the Oranjerie with a Japanese garden, cinema Utopolis,
a theatre the Kampanje and indoor playground Ballorig are also worth a visit.
Daytrips to the island of Texel and Wieringen and the city of Schagen can be made from Den Helder.
More information about Den Helder on www.kopvannoordholland.nl
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Telephone numbers
Rugby Club Den Helder
Linieweg 23-B
1783 BA Den Helder
+31 223 618172
Hotel Den Helder, also workplace
Marsdiepstraat 2
1784 AP Den Helder
+31 223 622333
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Notes
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Main sponsor
Also sponsored by: