Reports | 25 05 2020
Ahmed Shujaa, an retired assistant engineer from al-Suwaydaa, successfully harnessed windpower and converted it into electricity; thus overcoming many obstacles that would normally prevent such a project.
Shujaa, 67 years, designed a huge fan, to cope with the deepening electricity crisis in Syria, which may witness service interruptions of more than twenty hours a day, in some areas.
He says that the idea to use windpower is not new. Windmills have been well known since antiquity. But applying them to electric generators, is not a simple task, and requires precision in design and implementation.
This is not even the first time Syria witnesses similar attempts. Yet chances of their success were practically almost non-existent: lack of adequate studies of the necessary compatibility between wind speed, propeller wingspan, and degree of inclination; in addition to the malfunctioning of electrical tools, such as the dynamos, according to Ahmad Shujaa.
Shujaa says that his propeller works even in light wind gusts. It was successfully tested, giving electric currents of 15-50 volt tensions, and stream intensities between 5 and 35 mA, depending on wind speed.
The current produced by the propeller is used to charge batteries via a special generator. once there is a power outage, the batteries' charge can be used in lighting.
It is noteworthy that Shujaa is a gradutae from a state engineering institute, living in the village of Massad, circa 2 kilometers southeast . al-Suwayda. He is the holder of three patents, the most recent of which is for a disabled stair-climbing mobile chair.