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- CV
- 1946
- Birth of Claus Nybroe on September 8 th 1946.
- Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1975
- Architect/industrial designer.
- The Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen.
- 1976
- Author of "Sun and Wind", a handbook.
- Sold in more than 15.000 copies. Information Publishers, Copenhagen.
- 1977- 78
- Two years in design and management.
- Government subsidized project group "Dana Windpower".
- Design of some of the very first grid connected 5 kW and 22 kW
- wind turbines in Denmark.
- 1979- 82
- One year as a lecturer in Ecological Building Structures.
- The School of Architecture in Århus.
- Subsequently two years as an independent aero-photographer and pilot.
- Aerial photographs of areas qualified for wind farms.
- 1983
- Wind farms on Thy/Mors.
- Aerial photographs, design of patterns and graphical presentation.
- Consultant for 8 local wind farm initiatives.
- Subsidized by the Danish Ministry of Energy (EM).
"Wind power and water pumps in developing countries"
- Research and report for The Folkecenterfor Renewable Energy (FC).
- Wind farms in California".
- Desk research. Engineering, organization and economy (EM).
- 1984
- "Manual for Wind farms", 3 volumes - 520 pages.
- 1. Wind physical planning. 2. Electro technical principles.
- 3. Organization and economy. Public presentation (FC).
- Winner (68 entries) of design competition for new windmill types.
- Danish Design Council, Copenhagen.
- "Wind farms on Bornholm". Regional project.
- County of Bornholm.
- 1985
- Design and production of a 24 bladed Ø 3 m, 1 kW m wind turbine.
- New super wind rose concept named "WINDFLOWER".
- High efficiency (Cp-max measured: O.47) and low noise level (45 dB(A) at 17 m). (EM).
- "Wind farms on Langeland".
- roject for The Association of Share-owned Wind Turbines, Langeland.
- Consulting work for Danish wind turbine producers:
- Bonus, Danwin, Vestas, Wincon and Micon.
- "Wind farms in California II". Guide for a group of potential Danish windmill
- producers touring California. Report on the tour. (FC).
- 1986-87
- Cooperation with Wincon A/S.
- Installation of 2 prototypes of the 1 kW WINDFLOWER. Intense measurements.
- Design and production of a 12 bladed Ø 3.8 m Windflower. Electrical heating.
- Wind farm study for the County of Northern Jutland.
- 1988
- Design of an 18 bladed 3.2 m mechanical water pumping windmill (EM).
- Wind-measurements and data study on the wake behind wind rotors .
- Sydvestmors Wind farm (EM).
- Production of small scale rotor blades for Wincon A/S
- 1989
- Research and development of generator- and control systems
- for various types of stand alone windmills.
- Design and production of a 9 bladed Ø 3.2 m, 2 kW Windflower.
- Battery charging and heat production.
- Post Nuclear Wind power Project, Kanazawa, Japan.
- Development of GRP process technology.
- Blade production by means of injection and pressing methods.
- 1990-2010
- Setting up an R&D workshop for metal, composite and electronics.
- Setting up a wind test station. Both located in Stenstrup. Denmark.
- Production and testing of a 6 bladed Ø 2 m, 600 W Windflower.
- Battery charging, heating water pumping.
- Production and testing of a 12 bladed Ø 3,8 m, 4 kW Windflower.
- Battery charging, heating and water pumping.
- Work on the official approval of the 4 kW Windflower.
- Cooperation with The Test Station for Wind turbines, RISØ National Laboratories.
- Production and sales of some 35 wind turbines
- in the Arctic, Europe, North Africa and Japan.
- Installation of windmills.
- Installation of 7 PV units in Indian refugee camps.
- The province of Chiapas in Mexico (Jord og Frihed).
- Investigation of mechanical driven windmills for aeration/ water pumping purposes.
- (Sønderjyllands Amt).
- Danish government funding for the design and production of
- the Ø 9 m 12 kW Freja Windflower (EM).
- 2 trips to South Africa.
- Research on setting up small scale wind turbine production in rural areas.
- Steady consultant for Danish large scale manufacturer Bonus Energy A/S, now
- Siemens Wind Power A/S. Assisting designer of 600 kW, 1 MW and
- 2 MW and larger wind turbines. Newsletters and employee magazine. Design and patent research.
- Large scale composite model work and testing..
- Reconstruction of the Windmission company, after a fire in 2000 took
- house and workshop.
- Windflower design synthesis: Design and production of a new 1,5 kW Windflower.
- Prototype for grid connection, battery charging, heating and waterpumping.
- Business concept based on open source structure.
- Design and construction of 11 kW direct drive PMG wind turbine
Design of Windflower Micro turbines including own PMG.
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