DoST tasks expert panel to evaluate Corpus’ wind turbine invention

THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has constituted and tasked a multi-disciplinary panel of technical experts to evaluate the wind turbine machine invented by retired Philippine Army Gen. Victor Corpus that can potentially revolutionize the country’s power generation industry.

Corpus calls his invention the “Nautilus.” Included in the expert panel to evaluate his invention are engineers from DoST’s Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI), Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DoST-PCIEERD), Metals Industry Research and Development Center (DoST-MIRDC), Industrial Technology and Development Institute (DoST-ITDI), and the Department of Energy-Renewable Energy Management Bureau (DoE-REMB).

From the academe, the panel also includes engineering faculty members from Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Rizal Technological University, and the Technological University of the Philippines; and experts from the state energy company PNOC Renewables Corporation. The panel will conduct its

Retired Gen. Victor Corpus (second from right), together with (from left) Filipino Inventors Society Producers Cooperative president Francisco ‘Popoy’ Pagayon, DoST Regional Director for NCR Jose Patalinjug III and FISPC Director Davis Pagayon, showcases a model of the improved Nautilus vertical-axis wind turbine innovation in Pasay City. initial inspection of the Nautilus DoST, which can help his efforts to miniature-sized prototype, stored secure venture capital funding for that this invention, this innovation at the Folk Arts Theater compound, the development of the Nautilus’ is commerciable,” Patalinjug said. Cultural Center of the Philippines full-sized prototype and its eventual The retired general said the Nauticomplex in Pasay City. commercial-scale production. lus’ vertical axis wind turbine design

Corpus said he is inspired and exJose Patalinjug III, regional di cited to have his Nautilus prototype, rector of DoST in the National the horizontal axis wind turbine, the along with is concept and design, Capital Region, agreed to support technology behind the giant and towinspected. “I’m fully prepared for the further development of Corpus’ ering windmills seen in “wind farms” it,” he added. He expressed hope the Nautilus design. “If we need further all over the world; and the vertical evaluation will hopefully result to R&D on this, we are willing to fund axis wind turbine that has long been validation and endorsement from this. If we need further testing to regarded as not viable for commercial the government, particularly the collect the necessary data, we will wind energy generation.