Design, manufacturing and validation of a vertical-axis wind turbine setup for wind tunnel tests

Vergaerde, Antoine; Troyer, Tim De; Molina, Andreu Carbó; Standaert, L.; Runacres, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2019.103949

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“…2 (also indicated with the main dimensions). An extensive description of the experimental setup along with a thorough characterisation can be found in (Vergaerde et al, 2019).…”

Section: Vawt Setup and Wind Tunnel Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental characterisation of the wake behind paired vertical-axis wind turbines

Vergaerde

Troyer

Muggiasca

et al. 2020

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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“…2 (also indicated with the main dimensions). An extensive description of the experimental setup along with a thorough characterisation can be found in (Vergaerde et al, 2019).…”

Section: Vawt Setup and Wind Tunnel Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimental characterisation of the wake behind paired vertical-axis wind turbines

Vergaerde

Troyer

Muggiasca

et al. 2020

Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics

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“…This curtails the working TSR should be between 3 TSR to 3.5 TSR for the optimum results from the turbine. The results showed improved performance compared to the experimental results of the paper referred [21]. Figure 4 is the three-blade model used for the analysis.…”

Section: Cl/cd Vs Azimuthal Anglementioning

confidence: 81%

DMST Approach for Analysis of 2 and 3 Bladed Type Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Roga¹,

Dubey²

2018

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web

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Wind energy has lately been one of the world's leading outlets of clean energy for producing power in potential environments across the globe. Academics currently undertake numerous analysis practices to improve and refine current wind turbine designs by means of advanced and diverse computational techniques. Various computations tools based on Computational fluid dynamics are available. However, these require a lot of computational time and hardware resources. On the other side, readily accessible basic methods like QBlade are computationally cheap and could be used for efficiency and design analysis of wind turbines on the horizontal and vertical axis. The present study is based on the variable pitch study of vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) of straight blade NACA0018 airfoil for low speed utilizing QBlade software. The results are validated and compared with the experimental results and it was found to be in good agreement with them for TSR ranging from 1 to 6.

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“…In a micro wind turbine, cut-in speed and economic viability are essential in optimizing the micro wind turbine blades [10,11]. Apart from the continuous development of the Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine (HAWT), the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) has attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to the superiority of its mechanical structure, which is superior to application and easier to use directly [12,13] Besides, VAWT at small and medium sizes can also be used effectively as a low-speed wind energy generation (less than 10 m/s) if the efficiency can be further improved [15,16]. The challenge of developing such a VAWT installation is increasing the built environment's efficiency, which depends on the blade profile design.…”

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Double-stage Savonius and Darrieus wind turbines for urban areas using fiberglass materials

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Wind generation is an alternative to energy generation that is renewable, widely distributed, and environmentally friendly. However, the use of wind energy in certain areas with limited land has constraints for installing large-scale generators; therefore, the concept of micro wind energy generation is an attractive solution to be developed at this time. In this case, the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) is preferred because it is reliable and economically feasible to operate at low wind speeds in all wind directions. In the case of turbine selection, the Savonius turbine is preferred because it has self-starting. Still, in terms of performance, the Darrieus turbine type has better power efficiency than the Savonius type. Besides that, because of their high solidity and heavier weight, drag-based turbines are less preferred. In this study, the combination of the two types of turbines between Savonius and Darrieus was carried out to overcome each type of turbine's shortcomings. In this case, the fiberglass material was chosen because it has reliable properties that increase the turbine's efficiency. The research design used an experimental method by configuring a double-stage Savonius-Darrieus turbine in the wind tunnel. The data was collected by measuring and recording the electric voltage, electric current, and the generator shaft rotation for each variation of the pitch angle at the 0°,5°,10°,15°,20°,25° and 30° blades and with wind speeds at 1.5 m/s up to 5 m/s with 0.1 m/s intervals. The results showed that adding variations in the pitch angle of the Savonius-Darrieus double-stage turbine blade was ineffective because it reduced the electric power generated and the turbine's performance. In this study, the resulting cut-in speed is 3.8 m/s. However, with the addition of variations in the pitch angle, there was a decrease in the value of electric power, power coefficient, and Tip Speed Ratio (TSR), where the maximum values were 3.14 W, 0.24, and 0.75, respectively.

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Design, manufacturing and validation of a vertical-axis wind turbine setup for wind tunnel tests

Cited by 25 publications

References 40 publications

Experimental characterisation of the wake behind paired vertical-axis wind turbines

Experimental characterisation of the wake behind paired vertical-axis wind turbines

DMST Approach for Analysis of 2 and 3 Bladed Type Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Double-stage Savonius and Darrieus wind turbines for urban areas using fiberglass materials

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