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Ulan Dakeev | Zendy; Quamrul H. Mazumder | Zendy; Toufiq Hussain | Zendy; James Pung | Zendy

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Analysis of Wind Power Generation with Application of Wind Tunnel Attachment

Author(s) -

Ulan Dakeev,

Quamrul H. Mazumder,

Toufiq Hussain,

James Pung

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--20075

Subject(s) - wind power , wind tunnel , turbine , wind speed , marine engineering , wind profile power law , supersonic wind tunnel , hypersonic wind tunnel , wind gradient , environmental science , meteorology , engineering , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering , physics

This study presents an empirical method for developing a new approach in which a wind tunnel apparatus is used to improve the power generation efficiency of a small wind turbine. A customdesigned wind tunnel attachment was used to evaluate the performance of the wind turbine. The experimental investigation consists of measuring upstream and downstream wind velocities as well as power output from the wind tunnel attachment. The power generated by the wind turbine at different wind velocities was used to develop a characteristic performance curve. The case studies included normal operation of the experimental wind turbine at variable wind velocity values with and without the proposed wind tunnel attachment. Statistical analysis of the experimental results demonstrated 60% more power generated using the wind tunnel attachment when compared with the results without the attachment. The results of this study can be used to design similar devices that can be used upstream of a wind turbine to improve performance.

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