Testing basic performance of a very small wind turbine designed for multi-purposes |
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| Authors: | Hiroyuki Hirahara M Zakir Hossain Masaaki Kawahashi Yoshitami Nonomura |
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| Affiliation: | aFaculty of Engineering, Saitama University, 255, Shimo-Okubo, Sakura, Saitama 338-8570, Japan;bGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255, Shimo-Okubo, Sakura, Saitama 338-8570, Japan;cFujita Corporation, 2025-1, Ono, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan |
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| Abstract: | A very small wind turbine system for multi-purposes was developed and its performance was reported in this paper. The rotor diameter of the turbine is 500 mm. The tests of the energy output, turbine speed, power coefficient, and torque of turbine were carried out for a wide rage of free stream velocity. The flow around the wind turbine and the influence of the turbulence were investigated with a particle image velocimetry. Experimentally obtained power coefficient was 0.4 in maximum and 0.36 in the rated running condition, respectively. The tip speed ratio corresponding to the optimum driving condition was 2.7. Comparing with the other commercial turbines, the performance was excellent at a slow turbine speed. By the flow visualization and PIV measurement around the wind turbine, the approaching flow velocity and the accelerated flow field passing the blade tip was obtained. It was confirmed that the actual flow passed through the blades was about 20% slower than the ideal flow. Tip vortex shed from the blade tip was also visualized clearly. |
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| Keywords: | Wind turbine Renewable energy Small wind turbine Power coefficient Flow measurement Particle image velocimetry |
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