Experimental Study of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with Wind Speed Self-Adapting

Abstract:

A small vertical axis wind turbine with wind speed self-adapting was designed. The diameter and height of the turbine were both 0.7m. It featured that the blades were composed of movable and fixed blades, and the opening and closing of the movable blades realized the wind speed self-adapting. Aerodynamic performance of this new kind turbine was tested in a simple wind tunnel. Then the self-starting and power coefficient of the turbine were studied. The turbine with load could reliably self-start and operate stably even when the wind velocity was only 3.6 m/s. When the wind velocity was 8 m/s and the load torque was 0.1Nm, the movable blades no longer opened and the wind turbine realized the conversion from drag mode to lift mode. With the increase of wind speed, the maximum power coefficient of the turbine also improves gradually. Under 8 m/s wind speed, the maximum power coefficient of the turbine reaches to 12.26%. The experimental results showed that the new turbine not only improved the self-starting ability of the lift-style turbine, but also had a higher power coefficient in low tip speed ratio.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 215-216)
• Pages: 1323-1326
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.215-216.1323
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Ming Wei Xu, Jian Jun Qu, Han Zhang
• Keywords: Movable-Fixed Blades, Self-Starting, Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, Wind Speed Self-Adapting

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