Open AccessUtilizing Wind Vibrations from Vehicular Airdrag Using Microwind Harnessing Device
Author(s) -
Charlyn May A. Gapuz,
Ronald Vincent M. Santiago
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/841/1/012007
Subject(s) - wind power , wind speed , voltage , vibration , environmental science , automotive engineering , marine engineering , energy (signal processing) , computer science , electrical engineering , meteorology , engineering , acoustics , physics , quantum mechanics
Windbelt has been developed to be an alternative for wind turbines to utilize wind energy, meanwhile, fast-moving vehicles in highways creates wind forces that has potential to be a source of wind energy. This study presents a windbelt prototype and evaluates the output and performance of 1, 5 and 10 connected windbelts when placed on the highway. The results reveal that for every increase in windspeed there is 0.155v and 0.485v increase in output voltage response for 5 and 10 connected windbelt respectively, indicating that the 10 connected windbelt have the highest output voltage response. This indicates that the higher the number of connected windbelts result to larger output voltage.