Design and Performance Prediction of Low Cost Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Abstract:

The capacity of wind power generation has increased across India due to various activities encouraged by government. Moreover, onshore potential in India is in the order of 100GW. However, the plant load factor is often very low in wind power production. In most of the place, low-rated wind speed is available. Effective utilization of the wind to produce small power will reduces the grid load. There is in need to effectively utilize the available potential to meet the energy demand. The low cost vertical axis wind turbine designed for low rated wind regime has the hybrid of simple Savonius and helical Savonius. Various experimental parameters are measured to check the suitability of the vertical axis wind turbine in the low rated wind speed regions. Numerical simulation are carried out for three dimensional steady flow around the combined Savonius and helical Savonius vertical axis wind turbine blades using ANSYS Fluent^(C). Numerical investigation are conducted to study the effect of hybrid combination on performance of the rotor in terms of coefficient of torque, coefficient of power, etc. Self-starting behaviour of the vertical axis wind turbine is improved by using this hybrid vertical axis wind turbine.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 813-814)
• Pages: 1070-1074
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.813-814.1070
• Online since: November 2015
• Authors: T. Micha Premkumar*, T. Mohan, Sivamani Seralathan, A. Sudheer Kumar
• Keywords: CFD, Helical Savonious, Self-Starting, VAWT, Wind Energy

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