Design, Development of Aeroleaf of Wind Tree Turbine for Domestic Application

Abstract

The paper discusses about the wind tree turbine which is a type of vertical axis wind turbine Savonius model. The turbine will be attached to a manufactured tree that will be installed in and around any public area such as parks, roads, public facilities, or business offices. The initial phase discusses about the theoretical evaluation of available wind power for a single aeroleaf wind tree turbine. The second phase evaluates the pressure drop across the aeroleaf blade at the various velocity using CFD simulation. The simulation outcome shows that, pressure drop is directly proportional to the wind velocity which causes rise in the power generated at the shaft. The less pressure drop is produced up to some radius of the aeroleaf and increases as the radius of aeroleaf increased. In third phase of experiment work, design a new single aeroleaf for wind tree turbine to measure actual shaft power at different wind inlet velocity. Experiment performance conducted on a single aeroleaf at different input wind velocities to measure the aeroleaf, entire casing and overall efficiencies. The result shows that power co-efficient increases at beginning and highest reaches at 32% at inlet velocity of 19 m/s.