Deo, Ashneel and Goundar, Jai and Narayan, Sumesh and Chettiar, Niranjwan (2016) Design and performance analysis of micro wind turbine for Fiji. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 6 (2016). pp. 37-40. ISSN 2010-3719
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Abstract
Wind energy can contribute significantly towards renewable energy production. A functional wind turbine built locally proposes a huge impact for Fiji and the Pacific Islands renewable energy industry. The design has to take into consideration the wind speed of the pacific which is quite different from other countries. A low Reynolds number airfoil was selected and modified for horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) and its aerodynamic characteristic was studied. The analysis were done using XFoil software, the numerical results were validated with experimental results before analysis were done.
The Q-blade Software is used to design the blade for the wind turbine. The cut in velocity of wind turbine is 3 ms-1, which is a big achievement when it comes for the power generation. The rated power is 50 watts at rated velocity of 6.5 ms-1 and the cut of velocity is at 20 ms-1. The numerical results were validated with experimental results.
The peak power after measurement was 23.73 watts at wind speed of 8 ms-1.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Renewable energy, horizontal axis micro wind turbine, airfoils, blade design |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Physics (STEMP) |
| Depositing User: | Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2024 23:48 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2024 23:48 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/8235 |
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